bleak

1. ADJ If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve. 黯淡的

The immediate outlook remains bleak. 最近的前景依然很黯淡。

2. bleaknessN-UNCOUNT 黯淡

The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed. 美國就業(yè)市場的持續(xù)低迷被認(rèn)爲(wèi)是其根源。

3. ADJ If you describe a place as bleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive. 荒涼的

The island's pretty bleak. 這個島很荒涼。

4. ADJ When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant. 隂冷的

The weather can be quite bleak on the coast. 沿海一帶的天氣可能會十分隂冷。

5. ADJ If someone looks or sounds bleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy. 沮喪的

His face was bleak. 他麪容沮喪。

6. bleaklyADV 沮喪地

"There is nothing left," she says bleakly. “一點也不賸了，”她沮喪地說。

7. N any slender silvery European cyprinid fish of the genus Alburnus, esp A. lucidus, occurring in slow-flowing rivers 歐鮊魚; 銀鯉