bleak
bleak 英 [bli:k] 美 [blik]
adj. 阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的
比较级:bleaker 最高级:bleakest
- Something that is bleak is gloomy and depressing. If it's raining and dark, you might describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for work and no one will hire you, you could describe your prospects as bleak.
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- adj. 阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的
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1. The bleak ground pullulated with jackrabbits.
荒凉的土地上到处是长耳大野兔。
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2. That is why the outlook for the big, slow-growing creatures of the deep, some of which travel long distances, is so bleak.
这就是那些深海里大而生长缓慢的动物前景黯淡的原因，其中有些动物生存中要游很长的距离。
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3. They showed me into a bleak waiting room.
他们引我来到一间阴冷的会客室。
- bleak (adj.) c. 1300, bleik, "pale, pallid," from Old Norse bleikr "pale, whitish, blond," from Proto-Germanic *blaika- "shining, white" (source also of Old Saxon blek "pale, shining," Dutch bleek, Old High German bleih, German bleich), from PIE root *bhel-(1) "to shine, flash, burn," also "shining white."
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