英语释义

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;

  "her drab personality"

  "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"

  "a series of dreary dinner parties"

• 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

dreary well鉆井

Dreary Day惨淡天

B dreary表示

Dreary Information沉寂信息

dreich沉闷阴郁的；令人沮丧的

tedious沉闷的；冗长乏味的

My dreary夜凄凉

DrEaRy-沉闷的，枯燥的

Life Dreary生活枯燥无味

horrificfriend dreary鉆孔

英汉例句

• it was a dreary life. gradually the eagle grew older and bitter.

  生活非常沉闷，渐渐地鹰长大了，也越来越苦恼。

• it was a lime-washed, stone-floored room, unspeakably dreary with its furniture of deal boards and benches, and its prison smell.

  这是一间白灰刷墻石头铺地的房子，摆满了饭桌和条凳，说不出的沉闷和乏味，颇有一些监狱的气息。

• they will brighten the dreary lives of cubans.

  他们将照亮古巴人沉闷的生活。

• a dreary job as a clerk at the budapest stock exchange prompted him to leave hungary in 1925 for paris, then the artistic capital of the world.

  他起初是布达佩斯证券交易所的一名职员，枯燥无味的工作促使他于1925年离开了匈牙利奔向法国——当时的世界艺术之都。

• the picture mr zubok paints so painstakingly is vivid. yet it is only a tiny corner of the dreary canvas of soviet life.

  祖博克煞费苦心描绘的这幅图景是如此地栩栩如生，但它也只不过反映了沉闷乏味的苏联式生活的冰川一角。

• no one today really thinks that school, especially in the early years, should consist of nothing but dreary rote learning.

  如今，特别是早些年，没有人真正认为在学校里应该只学习如何去枯燥无聊地去死记硬背。

• 「people are usually buoyed by the thought of the holidays. but after, when you have go back to your dreary job with nothing to look forward to, it can be very depressing, 」 he says.

  长假的动力一直在支撑着你，而长假过后，你又不得不回到枯燥乏味的工作中去，看不到希望，这时你就会觉得特别沮丧。

• it wasn’t just that sir thomas hated missing his holidays, he was concerned about his health, maybe even whether he’d be able to survive the dreary winter.

  托马斯爵士不仅遗憾失去了假期，而且担忧他的健康，或许他甚至不知道能否活过这个沉闷的冬季。

• fashion experts agreed that aniston「s metallic valentino gown easily outshone jolie」s dreary black dress.

  时尚专家也认为，安妮斯顿的华伦天奴金属丝线礼服明显胜过茱丽沉闷的黑长裙。

• after all, we「re comparing apples and oranges: a warm, american-made cartoon full of indestructible characters and a dreary live-action film full of bloody violence.

  毕竟两者不能相提并论：一部是充斥着不死英雄们的温馨美式卡通，一部是充满暴力血腥的，稍显沉闷的真人影片。

• techcolumbus is one of those ventures, scattered throughout the rustbelt, that provide hope to dreary surroundings.

  techcolumbus是那些散落在那些铁锈地带，给周围沉闷的环境带来希望的风险投资基金之一。

• so on dreary days, ask subjects to wear something colourful or stripy to give the image some visual interest and warmth.

  所以在沉闷的日子里，让拍摄对象穿些彩色或带条纹的衣服来赋予图像一些视觉关注点和暖调。

• the internet let millions of wired people work from home; now, with widespread wifi, many have cut the wires and left home (or the dreary office) to work where they please.

  因特网让数百万的「线上」人士在家办公；如今，随着无线网络的广泛发展，很多人已经切断网线、离开家（或沉闷的办公室），到他们喜欢的地方去完成工作了。

• for most people, 「role-playing」 conjures up dreary afternoons at management retreats, pretending to be an irate customer or a difficult employee.

  对大多数人来讲，「角色扮演」让人想起在沉闷的下午里举行的经营策略讨论会，与会人员假装成愤怒的顾客或者是难以相处的雇员。

• and i hope the arguments that visitors enjoy are deep and serious and bitter – because passionate criticism is the only cure for the dreary feast of art for cool」s sake.

  我也希望游览者喜欢的争论是深刻、严肃而苦涩的——因为热情的批评是只是为了「酷」的沉闷艺术筵席的唯一解药。

• 「i grew up in a place like this, where everyone i knew went to space, 」 garriott tells me over a lunch of veal and cabbage at a dreary star city cafeteria.

  「我在这样一个地方长大，这里我知道的每一个人都去过外太空，」加略特和我在星城一个沉闷的餐馆吃着牛肉和卷心菜的午餐。

• reading is a quiet activity and it will often induce sleep in the supine position. especially if it「s a dreary textbook or work paper.

  阅读是一种很安静的活动，特别是在阅读工作文件或者阅读的内容很枯燥时，仰卧的姿势容易使人入睡。

• the late nights along the seine were as dark and dreary as the sunshine was bright that wednesday morning on the upper east side of manhattan.

  在曼哈顿的上东区，夜晚的塞纳河边黑暗又沉闷，星期三的早上却阳光明媚。

• the fresh air along a birding trail can be invigorating, while the companionship of backyard birds can brighten any dreary day.

  走在观鸟步道上呼吸着新鲜空气会让人感到精神充沛，而只要后院中有小鸟的陪伴，再沉闷的一天也会充满乐趣。

• he」s actually something much richer: a small part of an enormous machine and a most useful and interesting lens with which to look at decades of often dreary and sometimes terrifying soviet life.

  他实际上相当富有：这只是苏联机器工业的一部分，当我们回顾过去一个时期苏联沉闷和可怕的个人生活时，其实非常有用和有趣。

相似词

disheartening使人沮丧的

somber忧郁的；昏暗的；严峻的；阴天的

depressing令人沮丧的；造成萧条的

dismal凄凉的，忧郁的；阴沉的，沉闷的；差劲的；可怜的

dull钝的；迟钝的；无趣的；呆滞的；阴暗的

discouraging沮丧（discourage的ing形式）；失去勇气

gloomy黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的

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

dismal凄凉的，忧郁的；阴沉的，沉闷的；差劲的；可怜的

solemn庄严的，严肃的；隆重的，郑重的

somber忧郁的；昏暗的；严峻的；阴天的

cheerless阴郁的；惨淡的，无精打采的

bleak阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的

doleful寂寞的；悲哀的；阴沉的；忧郁的

grey灰色

funereal悲哀的；送葬的；适合葬礼的

monotonous单调的，无抑扬顿挫的；无变化的

discouraging沮丧（discourage的ing形式）；失去勇气

black黑色的；黑人的；邪恶的

dull钝的；迟钝的；无趣的；呆滞的；阴暗的

deadad 完全地

tedious沉闷的；冗长乏味的

colorless无色的；苍白的；无趣味的

depressing令人沮丧的；造成萧条的

gloomy黑暗的；沮丧的；阴郁的