bleakness

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n.  晦暗，严寒；阴郁；萧瑟凄凉；惨淡无望

BNC.32726 / COCA.29325

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （情形）没有希望的，前景暗淡的
  If a situation isbleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
  1. The immediate outlook remains bleak...
     近期前景依然暗淡。
  2. Many predicted a bleak future.
     很多人都预测前景暗淡。
• ADJ-GRADED （地方）凄清的，荒凉的，萧瑟的
  If you describe a place asbleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive.
  1. The island's pretty bleak.
     这座岛屿一片荒凉。
  2. ...bleak inner-city streets.
     凄清的旧城区街道
• ADJ-GRADED （天气）阴冷的，寒冷的
  When the weather isbleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant.
  1. The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.
     沿海地区的天气会非常阴冷。
• ADJ-GRADED （人）无精打采的，沮丧的，阴郁的
  If someone looks or soundsbleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy.
  1. His face was bleak...
     他脸色阴郁。
  2. Alberg gave him a bleak stare.
     阿尔伯格沮丧地凝视着他。

英英释义

noun

• a bleak and desolate atmosphere
  1. the nakedness of the landscape
  Synonym:desolationbarenessnakedness

双语例句

• But even in the bitter, windswept bleakness of a Scottish beach, a helping hand is never far away. Sealed with a kiss, a young grey seal is seen nurturing her newborn baby through the first few days of its life.
  然而尽管身陷艰苦，在苏格兰海滩上帮助之手也从未远离。一只年轻的海豹正宠爱地呵护着它刚出生不久的幼崽。
• But the hotel also provides a vantage-point: photos from the top-floor revolving restaurant give a good picture of the bleakness of Pyongyang.
  不过，宾馆的位置还比较有利&站在顶楼旋转餐厅拍照，平壤的苍凉景象尽收眼底。
• Poems on ode to Jiazhou composed by Cen Shen account for a small proportion in his poetic creation, but it clearly reflects bleakness and lowness.
  岑参咏嘉州诗，虽然在其创作的诗歌中比例不大，却鲜明地反映出其诗歌创作黯淡低沉、廖落失意的一面。
• Eileen Changs prose thus often describes the inner bleakness of its characters.
  张爱玲的散文多处依靠听觉实现对内心苍凉感的描绘。
• The "legendary" style of Zhang Ailings novels is that she mainly expressed a sense of unusual and bleakness from the point of view of the aesthetic psychology.
  张爱玲小说的“传奇”之处，主要表现在它传达出普通人在平俗的日常生活中心理上的一种怪异、苍凉的感觉。
• The urban novels raised by the modern urbanization process have shown flourishing and bleakness of the urban sight, happiness and unhappiness of the urban living, as well the brightness and hardness of the urban life.
  作为现代都市化进程所催生、滋养起来的都市小说，集中地呈现着都市景观的繁华与苍凉、都市生活的快乐与忧愁、都市人生的光鲜与艰辛。
• The city's rather uncompromising bleakness is a permanent memorial to its dark and mysterious founders.
  这座城市毫不妥协的荒凉面貌是对其神秘莫测的创建者的永久纪念。
• There comes a time my friends when people get tired of being plunged across the abyss of humiliation, when they experience the bleakness of nagging despair.
  朋友们，终有一天，人们再也不能忍受被抛进屈辱的深渊，经受冷酷的、无了期的绝望。
• Bertha was looking out of the window at the bleakness of the day.
  伯莎望着窗外晦暗的天色。
• Without this song, there must be a bleakness about the feeling of longing for spring.
  没有这首歌的话，等待春天的季节里，嘴巴一定很寂寞。