bleakness

英

美

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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• March in a Small City& a Symbol of Beauty and Bleakness
  《小城三月》：美丽而苍凉的象征
• Human curiosity produces the impulse to discover the beauty of bleakness, while it demands the willpower and endurance to record such beauty.
  发现荒凉之美，是人类好奇心促就的激情再现；
• This highly-industrialized area is notorious for pollution and general atmospheric bleakness.
  这个高度工业化的地区因为污染和灰暗的大气层而臭名昭著。
• Austen balances out that bleakness with wisdom, with humor, with romance, and above all with a deeply satisfying sense of form, analyzed by scholars and sensed by general readers.
  奥斯汀用智慧、幽默、浪漫以及最突出的一点&非常令人赏心悦目的形式感，冲淡了她作品中的这种凄凉色彩。
• 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。
• The artistic mood of bleakness has been beloved by men of letters through the ages due to its special quality and their full experience.
  荒寒意境是历代文人所钟爱的意境之一，这是由荒寒意境的特质和文人们对人生的深刻体验所决定的。
• With these few concessions to the tax-payer the government hopes to temper the bleakness of its new measures.
  政府希望对纳税人作出这几方面的让步来扭转其新举措的惨淡局面。