Dismal
['dɪzm(ə)l] or ['dɪzməl]
解釋/意思:
(a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.
(a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.
手打:撒迪厄斯
同義詞及近義詞：
a. [1]. Cheerless, gloomy, dark, dull, dreary, lonesome.[2]. Melancholy, mournful, sad, doleful, dolorous, sombre, lugubrious, funereal.[3]. Horrid, horrible, terrible, dire, frightful.
校對:内奥米
解釋/意思:
adj. gloomy: dreary: sorrowful: depressing.—adv. Dis′mally.—ns. Dis′malness Dismal′ity.—n.pl. Dis′mals mournings.—The dismals the dumps.
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例句/造句/用法:
- You are a very bad boy,' retorted Bella, 'to talk about dismal things and be out of spirits. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It was daylight and the country was wet, low and dismal looking. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- It rained on all morning and turned the snow to slush and made the mountain-side dismal. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 永別了,武器.
- The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- During this space he had not been to his mother's dismal old house. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I have thought so, often,' said the dismal man, without noticing the action. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- They are not worth your notice,' said the dismal man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I didn't take it,' the dismal youth replied. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The few children made a dismal cheer, as the carriage, splashing mud, drove away. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- How anxious, how dismal, how long! 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I got at my spectacles, with some fumbling and difficulty, feeling the Sergeant's dismal eyes fixed on me all the time. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- But those excellent soldiers would make dismal citizens. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill! 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He turned round: and the dismal man was at his side. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Then came the night--dark, dismal, silent night. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- But you must find me a dismal kind of person if you suppose that I never yield to an impulse. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- The poor old fellow is a dismal wreck. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Oh, George is not as dismal as you think. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- As George entered the house, old John Sedley was passing out of the banker's parlour, looking very dismal. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Sergeant Cuff's dismal eyes looked me hard in the face. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Certainly,' said Mr. Snodgrass: for the sunken eye of the dismal man rested on him, and he felt it necessary to say something. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I did,' replied Mr. Pickwick; 'and I certainly thought--' 'I asked for no opinion,' said the dismal man, interrupting him, 'and I want none. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- You shall have it,' replied the dismal man. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
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