bleak

• He was silent, with his hand on her shoulder. his heart was bleak .
  他抚摸着她的肩头，没有作声，心中一片凄凉。
• It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster .
  那是一个暂时匮乏和灾难迫在眉睫的清凉时代。
• It was a bleak period of present privation and threatening disaster .
  那是一个暂时匮乏和灾难迫在眉睫的凄凉时代。
• Their reception was bleak and discussions not at all friendly .
  他们受到的接待是冷淡的，会谈中丝毫没有友好的气氛。
• Raise was candid about the bleak living conditions on the farms .
  赖莎对农民们的凄惨的居住条件这一问题是无偏见的。
• They know the atmosphere of those bleak landscapes so well evoked by auden .
  他们熟悉奥登活灵活现描写过的那种荒凉景象。
• The bleak frost packed and paved the square as with some ringing metal .
  惨白的霜冻牢固地铺在广场上，象是铿锵发响的金属。
• It is a bleak look-out for the coal industry as the number of pit closures increases .
  煤井关闭的数目日多，煤炭工业前景暗淡。
• The high and faithful spirit of the people counted for nought in this bleak domain .
  在这阴森的领域中，人民崇高而忠实的精神也于事无补。
• Give a man the secure possession of a bleak rock, and he will turn it into a garden .
  保障一个人对一块不毛之地的所有权，他会把它变成花园。