| 单词 | bleak |
| 释义 | bleak (once / 818 pages) adj 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. If you and the ten people sharing your lifeboat have been adrift for ten days and are down to your last cracker, your situation is bleak. A near synonym is dismal. Bleak is from Middle English bleik, from Old Norse bleikr "white, pale." This word is related to the English word bleach. WORD FAMILYbleak: bleaker, bleakest, bleakly, bleakness+/bleakness: bleaknesses USAGE EXAMPLESPressure from Western powers and Japan exacerbated China’s bleak situation. Economist(Nov 03, 2016) The caves that the cadres used as hide-outs from Japanese bombers still exist, buried into the bleak hills like black eyes. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) Ms. White shares that bleak view while she considers leaving Valley Place and her hometown. New York Times(Jan 01, 2017) 1adj unpleasantly cold and damp bleak winds of the North Atlantic Syn cutting, raw cold having a low or inadequate temperature or feeling a sensation of coldness or having been made cold by e.g. ice or refrigeration 2adj providing no shelter or sustenance the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes Syn bare, barren, desolate, stark inhospitable unfavorable to life or growth 3adj offering little or no hope prospects were bleak "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge Syn black, dim hopeless without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success |
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