英语释义

• causing dejection;

  "a blue day"

  "the dark days of the war"

  "a week of rainy depressing weather"

  "a disconsolate winter landscape"

  "the first dismal dispiriting days of November"

  "a dark gloomy day"

  "grim rainy weather"

• depressing in character or appearance;

  "drove through dingy streets"

  "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens

  "drab old buildings"

  "a dreary mining town"

  "gloomy tenements"

  "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

片语

a dismal picture暗淡的景象

dismal science忧郁的科学；悲观科学

bleak dismal gloomy惨淡

Rich and dismal浓郁悲凉

bleak dismal forlorn凄凉的

a dismal song凄凉的歌

Express dismal feeling表示沮丧的心情

in a dismal voice用抑郁的声音

mourning and dismal悲苦凄厉

英汉例句

• there is no path to guide us out of this dismal maze.

  没有任何指引我们跳出这阴惨的迷津的道路！

• the result was a bump in car sales of 2.4% in july compared with june, an impressive figure after a year of dismal ones.

  结果是从六月份到七月份，汽车销售量增长了2.4%，在一年沮丧的指标后，这个数字确实令人印象深刻。

• not even the most dismal orthodox economist would claim that material wealth is a substitute for kinship.

  就连最阴沉的正统经济学家也不会声称，物质财富可以替代亲情。

• but copeland, an only child, is far from feeling dismal and finds it ironic that people in her life with children often complain about their lifestyles.

  但是作为一个独生女，科普兰还远远没有感觉凄惨，而且感到讽刺的是，她所认识的那些有孩子的人常常抱怨他们的生活方式。

• i uttered an ejaculation of discontent at seeing the dismal grate, and commenced shutting the casements, one after another, till i came to his.

  我一看到那阴暗的炉子便发出一声不满意的惊叫，我开始关窗子，一扇一扇地关，直到我来到他靠着的那扇窗子跟前。

• but it also reflects the dismal trend towards family break-up.

  但这也反映了令人忧虑的家庭破裂的趋势。

• and is the practice as useful as its advocates claim, or is the popular suspicion that it leads to cut corners and dismal service correct?

  实践中是否像拥护者宣称的那样有用，或者对外包会导致走捷径和糟糕服务的普遍怀疑是否正确？

• those that did not lay off any lawyers have frozen hiring and squeezed more work out of their staff. so morale is dismal at many firms.

  那些没有裁掉任何律师的公司停止了招聘，并想从员工身上榨取更多的劳动，因此很多公司士气低迷。

• maybe; yet to me lugging a bag up and down the stairs of dismal council flats still didn't seem like a recipe for happiness.

  或许的确如此；但对我来说，拖着个邮包在阴暗的政府福利房的楼梯上爬上爬下，似乎也不像是快乐的秘诀。

• such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.

  这种情景也曾经作为幸福而出现过；但如今，透过她随之而来的生活的悲惨的折射，只能归类于她回忆中最不堪入目的部分了。

• but after a decade of dismal returns it is time for them to act.

  但是在经历了十年的惨淡光景之后，他们是时候采取行动了。

• it may have occurred to you, during the course of a dismal trawl round a supermarket indistinguishable from every other supermarket you have ever been into, to wonder why they are all the same.

  你也许曾想过这个问题：当自己站在超市里一排让人失望的货架前时，发现这家超市和你去过的其他家超市没什么不同，你想知道为什么他们都没点特色呢？

• but behind nokia’s woes lurks a dismal reversal of fortunes, not just for the finnish company but also for much of europe’s mobile-phone industry.

  诺基亚痛苦的背后隐藏着不仅是芬兰公司也是整个欧洲的移动电话行业的惨淡困境中急转直下的命运。

• for a start, pension schemes have not achieved such returns over the past decade of dismal stockmarkets, and are unlikely to do so in future.

  首先，在过去的十年里股市的低迷使退休金计划没能产生预期收益，而且照这种情形下去，以后也不太可能。

• the rooms were cruelly dismal with their walls on guard like policemen.

  教室里，四面墻壁像警察一样看守着我们，特别地沉闷。

• should the united states, with its rather dismal record in nation building and its indifferent success in iraq and afghanistan, throw its resources for such a project?

  美国——在帮助建国的记录中沉闷抑郁，而在伊拉克和阿富汗取得了无关紧要的成功——应该为这一项目投入资源吗？

• four years passed, and on a dismal spring afternoon i was running errands and found myself feeling depressed.

  四年过去了，这年春天的一个下午，天气阴沉郁闷，我外出办事感到心情压抑。

• such conflicts of interest exist across many professions, of course. but they are particularly common in the dismal science.

  当然，这样的利益沖突在很多职业中都存在，但是在沉闷的科学（即指经济学，典出萨缪尔森）中尤其普遍。

• economics is 「the dismal science,」 in part because it puts a price tag on the pleasure of moralizing.

  经济学是一门「沉闷的科学」，部分原因是它给说教的乐趣贴上了价格的标签。

• libya, despite an income of $16, 000 a head, ranks an even more dismal 128th in the quality of its higher education, lower than dirt-poor burkina faso, with an average income of $577.

  利比亚虽然人均所得达16,000美元，但高等教育质量甚至排名更令人沮丧的第128名，较既脏又穷且人均所得仅577美元的布吉那法索还低。

• how could there be such dismal failure within and such brilliant success outside?

  怎么会有这种外部是辉煌成就而内心是阴暗的失败？

• the mongolian escapade marked the peak of his career, but it was also a dismal failure.

  蒙古的这场冒险标志着他人生的最高峰，但这也是一场悲惨的失败。

• here, let me remind you that there is a reason why economics is called 「the dismal science」.

  在此我要提醒大家，经济学之所以被称为「沉闷科学」是有原因的。

• of course, as india’s dismal record on child malnutrition demonstrates, growth by itself does not solve all the problems of the poor.

  当然，像印度那样在儿童营养不良方面有不良记录的国家，就证明增长本身并不能解决穷人的所有问题。

• because in between the dismal release of the u.s. september jobs report, accepting my dream job, and getting yet another job offer, i also broke up with my quasi-boyfriend.

  因为在美国九月就业报告的发布带来的阴霾、接受我理想中的工作和得到另一份工作时，我也同我的「类男友」分道扬镳了。

相似词

dark（Dark）《暗黑》（一部2017年Netflix出品的德国惊悚剧）

bleak阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的

gloomy黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的

miserable悲惨的；痛苦的；卑鄙的

dreary沉闷的，枯燥的

depressing令人沮丧的；造成萧条的

cloudy多云的；阴天的；愁容满面的

melancholy忧郁；悲哀；愁思

blue蓝色；蓝色物品；（牛津或剑桥大学的运动员）蓝色荣誉者；失误；红发人；打架

gloomy黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的

painful痛苦的；疼痛的；令人不快的

glum(Glum) （美）格卢姆（人名）

black黑色的；黑人的；邪恶的

grey灰色

somber忧郁的；昏暗的；严峻的；阴天的

funereal悲哀的；送葬的；适合葬礼的

depressing令人沮丧的；造成萧条的

solemn庄严的，严肃的；隆重的，郑重的

miserable悲惨的；痛苦的；卑鄙的

comfortless不舒服的；无安慰的；不自由的

overcast使沮丧；包缝；遮蔽

bleak阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的

sullen愠怒的，不高兴的；（天气）阴沉的；沉闷的

doleful寂寞的；悲哀的；阴沉的；忧郁的

dreary沉闷的，枯燥的

cheerless阴郁的；惨淡的，无精打采的

dark（Dark）《暗黑》（一部2017年Netflix出品的德国惊悚剧）

相反词

gay(Gay)人名；(西)加伊；(英、法、瑞典、毛里塔)盖伊

cheerful快乐的；愉快的；高兴的

merry(Merry)人名；(英、法、西)梅里

buoyant轻快的；有浮力的；上涨的

cheerful快乐的；愉快的；高兴的

brilliant灿烂的，闪耀的；杰出的；有才气的；精彩的，绝妙的

merry(Merry)人名；(英、法、西)梅里