查询词典 dismal

He's been leading a dismal life because of being too poor.

因为过于贫困，他的生活一直过得很郁抑。

I liked this kind of dismal beauty.

我喜欢这种凄清的美，莫名所以地喜欢。

Beyond the harbor there loomed, grey and cold upon the wintry horizon, a dismal barrack, parted from the Wildernsea houses by a narrow creek, spanned by an iron draw-bridge.

港湾后面，隐隐约约地兀立着一个惨淡的兵营，苍白而寒冷地映衬在冬天的地平线上，一条狭窄的溪流把它和怀尔德恩西的民房彼此分开，一条钢铁吊桥横跨在溪流之上。

There seemed one strong young figure standing up against long, dismal, drawling tides of drift and surrender, of wrong measurements and feeble impulses.

眼前是一个坚强的年青人，他巍然屹立，顶住那股长长的忧郁的、慢吞吞地流过来的潮流。那是一股毫无主见、动不动就屈服的潮流，也是估计错误、冲击微弱的潮流。

The dismal figures also place Japan firmly among the worst-hit in the global crisis, dwarfing economic declines in the United States and Europe.

糟糕的数据也把日本扔进了全球危机的恶劣境地，美国和欧洲的经济也正在衰退。

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。

Although hailed as Germany's greatest politician, his dismal fall from power, though owing partly to his advanced 87-year age, was also due in large part to his advocacy of integration with Europe. Indeed, it may be said that he was forced out of power by opposition parties' attacks on this idea, as

艾氏被尊称为西德最伟大的政治家，但是他的黯淡下台，除了八十七高龄的原因外，他的欧化政策也是个关键；我们甚至可以说，他是因为反对党的攻击，以及人民认为其德国统一政策的失败，因此要求下台的。

In the dreariness doubled by the gloaming and the autumn scene, pieces of fluting from someone often made all these even more dismal.

在暮色和秋色的双重苍凉里，往往不知什么人加上一阵笛音的苍凉。

It was a dismal Sight to look at: The Ship, which by its building was Spanish, stuck fast, jaum'd in between two Rocks; all the Stern and Quarter of her was beaten to pieces, with the Sea; and as her Forecastle, which stuck in the Rocks, had run on with great Violence, her Mainmast and Foremast were brought by the Board; that is to say, broken short off; but her Boltsprit was found, and the Head and Bow appear'd firm; when I came close to her, a Dog appear'd upon her, who seeing me coming, yelp'd, and cry'd; and as soon as I call'd him, jump'd into the Sea, to come to me, and I took him into the Boat; but found him almost dead for Hunger and Thirst: I gave him a Cake of my Bread, and he eat it like a ravenous Wolf, that had been starving a Fortnight in the Snow: I then gave the poor Creature some fresh Water, with which, if I would have let him, he would have burst himself.

眼前的景象一片凄凉。从那条船的构造外形来看，是一条西班牙船，船身被紧紧地夹在两块礁石之间。船尾和后舱都被海浪击得粉碎，那搁在礁石中间的前舱，由于猛烈撞去，上面的前桅和主桅都折断倒在了甲板上，但船首的斜桁仍完好无损，船头也还坚固。我靠近破船时，船上出现了一只狗。它一见到我驶近，就汪汪吠叫起来。我向它一呼唤，它就跳到海里，游到我的小船边来，我把它拖到船上，只见它又饥又渴，快要死了。我给了它一块面包，它就大吃大嚼起来，活像一只在雪地里饿了十天半月的狼。我又给他喝了点淡水，它就猛喝，要是我不制止它的话，真的可以喝得把肚子都涨破。

The war became a prolonged, dismal , fratricidal struggle

这场战争成为一场拖拉的，可怕的，骨肉相残的斗争。

More than five decades after the Indian constitution promises a casteless society, there is no sign that the castes are disappearing.

在印度宪法允诺一个&无种姓&社会五十多年后，种姓尚没有显示出任何要消失的迹象，但变化也确确实实地发生了。

Don't distract him from his studies.

他在学习不要打扰他。