It was a very dubious-looking, nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless . 这是一个非常朦胧的、且非常黑暗而阴沉的夜晚，天气冷彻肌肤，了无生趣。
He got it out, rumpled and wilted and it mightily increased his dismal felicity . 他把它拿出来，一看已经皱成一团，而且枯萎了；这大大地增加了他那种凄凉中的幸福情调。
The dismal english effort in the third anglo-dutch conflict of 1672-1674 requires minimal space here . 但是英国在16721674年第三次英荷战争中表现消沉，在此毋需赘述。
Thus, he was thunderstruck when he heard the truth, and received a dismal confession from pen . 这样，他一知道事实真相，听到潘愁眉苦脸的向他说明一切之后，真是大吃一惊。
If we are to be prying and spying into all the dismals of life, we should have no heart to anything . 如果我们要多管闲事，仔细根究生活中一切阴暗的事，那我们恐怕什么都没心思干了。
Clyde saw his possible marriage to the girl as a dismal ending to all his hopes for a bright future . 克莱德认为，要是他不得不与这姑娘结婚，那么他想要青云直上的一切希望都将化为泡影。
They reached the corner house in an angle of a dismal street, through the open door of which two men had just gone in . 他们走到一条阴森森的街道拐角上的房子，两个男人刚从敞开的大门走了进去。
The strikes which gave british industry such a dismal reputation are far fewer and mostly confined to the public sector . 为英国工业界带来不好名声的罢工运动减少了很多，而且罢工大多发生在国有化工业部门。
This dismal sales performance promoted an evaluation of the partnership by senior management in both baker and amcoal . 这种萧条的销售状况促使贝克公司与阿姆柯公司的高层领导人对合资企业的情况作了一次检查。
The fox, who had attended the steps of his fell mistress, uttered a dismal howl, and ran cowering back to the inner cave . 那只刚才跟在它的残忍的女主人后面走来的狐狸，发出一声凄厉的嚎叫，哆嗦着奔回洞窟里去。
