dismal

dismal

1. On January 4th dismal jobs figures seemed to confirm what many feared: a downturn is at hand.

1月4号悲观的就业数据似乎确定了许多人担心的事实：经济衰退到来了。

2. The 22-year-old competed hard, played unselfishly and never blamed his supporting cast for their dismal shooting.

22岁便全力以赴，打球无私并且不因队友糟糕的投篮而责备他们。

3. Pressure is on Dortmund after a dismal 3-1 opening loss to newcomers Duisburg, which saw Thomas Doll lashing out at his players.

3负于升班马杜伊斯堡后，压力在多特这边，多尔猛烈抨击他的队员们。

4. The word"dismal", originally a noun, comes from Latin. Literally it means"evil days," though gradually it became used as an adjective meaning "gloomy", "depressing. " or"drab".

“dismal”这个词原来是名词，源于拉丁文，字面上的意思是“邪恶日”，而后逐渐变成了形容词，意为“情绪低落的”、“无生气的”或“单调乏味的”。

5. Has anybody got anything to tell? It's been such a dismal day I'm really dying for some amusement,' said Meg, as they sat sewing together that evening.

“你们有什么有趣的事吗？今天闷死了，讲点什么轻松一下，”那天晚上她们坐在一起做针线活儿，梅格这样问。

6. At this dismal news, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round.

一听到这个扫兴的消息，急得我扭着背心上仅剩的那一颗钮扣。

7. Commutes are more dismal than ever.

一场大暴雨就使城市下水道脏水外溢。

8. As everyone expected, Ted's chimerical scheme to make a fortune by raising ermines in his backyard proved a dismal failure.

不出大家所料,泰德想在后院饲养白鼬来发财的荒诞不经的计划以惨败告终。

9. Dismal Days were sometimes called Egyptian Days, because they were computed by Egyptian astrologers.

不吉利日有时叫做“埃及日”，因为这些日子是埃及占星家推算出来的。

10. Dismal Days were considered unlucky,while Red-Letter Days were the principal feasts and saints'days to be celebrated or observed throughout the Christian year.

不吉利日被认为是倒霉的日子，而吉利日在基督教全年度里是重要的节日和纪念圣徒的日子。

11. However dismal the urban, scene may appear to the visitor, levels of rural poverty can be worse.

不管在旅游者看来城市景象多么暗淡，农村的贫困程度更为严重。

12. The national team's dismal performance has long been the subject of jokes and cursing among fans.

中国足球队的糟糕表现长期以来是球迷取笑和诅咒的话题。

13. A dismal book; a dismal performance on the cello.

乏味的书; 沉闷无趣的大提琴演奏

14. A dismal book;a dismal performance on the cello.

乏味的书；沉闷无趣的大提琴演奏

15. In fact, the horn alarmed most of the inhabitants, who crowded to their windows and doors to gaze upon the dismal procession as it passed.

事实上，喇叭声惊动了大部分居民，他们都爬上窗口或挤在门口望着这支路过的阴郁凄惨的队伍。

16. He got it out, rumpled and wilted, and it mightily increased his dismal felicity.

他不知道，要是她了解此事，她会不会同情他，她会哭吗？

17. Each wandered away, from time to time, but the same dismal fascination always brought them back presently.

他们时常从那里走开，可是又都被这件惨案吸引回来。

18. Their recent attempt to increase sales has been a dismal failure.

他们最近努力提高销售量，全是白费劲。

19. They reached the corner house in an angle of a dismal street, through the open door of which two men had just gone in.

他们走到一条阴森森的街道拐角上的房子，两个男人刚从敞开的大门走了进去。

20. It mattered little that he had assured her it was a very dismal place.

他告诉她，那是一个阴森可怕的地方，她也不在乎。

21. He had insisted on dressing himself up in a frock-coat and the most dismal pepper-and-salt trousers.

他固执己见地穿着礼服大衣和那条最悔气的黑白相间的裤子。

22. He tries to avoid speaking of “father God”, so dismal are many people's experiences with fathers in this struggling Californian city.

他尽量避免提到“父神”一词，就因为在这个生活艰难的加州城里，“父亲”是许多人家的心头之痛。

23. He spoke in a dismal strain.

他的口气很沮丧。

24. He tossed about until the appearance of the dismal London daylight, when he sprang up desperately, and walked off to his uncle's lodgings in Bury Street.

他翻来复去，等到伦敦那阴沉的白天开始上曙光，便一骨碌爬了起来，前往柏利街他叔父的寓所。

25. He attempts to explore dismal landscapes, where apocalyptic marches echo and thunder.

他试图探索那些回响着神启之音的凄凉之地。

26. He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.

他读了报上的一条不好的消息后心情忧郁。

27. Yet even set against this dismal backdrop, Labour's record since 1997 wins the wooden spoon (see article).

但即使在这样忧心忡忡的大背景下，工党1997年来的记录依然获得了个末等奖。

28. Amid a welter of dismal data suggesting the slowdown in the 16-nation euro zone will be worse than that stateside in the U.

但对欧洲央行一些决策者和大多数私营部门经济学家来说，这一步伐仍然太慢。

29. But low petroleum prices, a high birthrate, and austere policies produced a dismal economic picture.

但是低廉的石油价格，高出生率，和酷吏却让他们的经济一片萧条。

30. But given the dismal returns associated with vaccines in the past, that still represents quite a shot in the arm.

但是考虑到疫苗带来的令人害怕的反应,疫苗的生产仍然会给人们带来灾难。

31. The dismal English effort in the third Anglo-Dutch conflict of 1672-1674 requires minimal space here.

但是英国在1672－1674年第三次英荷战争中表现消沉，在此毋需赘述。

32. But the roots of the unrest lie in the country's dismal economic state, which the unions and protesters blame on the president.

但是，动荡的根源在于该国消沉的经济状态，工会及抗议者将之归咎于总统。

33. My no-named strategy proved a dismal failure,however.

但是，我的不取名策略结果是彻底的失败。

34. But Europe's record of government investment in IT is dismal.

但是，欧洲故去的政府投资项目却并不成功。

35. But The National Enquirer says this is due to dismal box office.And this pop star have to cancel her tours to minimize the necessary loss.

但杰克逊的发言人在周六没有详细说明，只是说她是“休养” 。

36. HIS distraught colleagues cannot forgive Taro Aso for calling a general election on August 30th, following a dismal stint as prime minister.

作为一个失败的首相，麻生太郎已经让其部下无法原谅，随后宣布8月30日举行平民大选，则更让其手下几近抓狂。

37. You are only an economist, practitioner of the dismal science.

你 只 不 过 是 个 经 济 学 家 ， 那 种 差 劲 科 学 的 研 究 者 。

38. Why are you looking so dismal?

你为何看上去这么忧郁?

39. Yous world,happening now.Envisage dismal,offish and evil,you can smile like the devil.Like the inexorable eye of the night.

你的世界，从此发生了。面对悲惨，冷漠，罪恶，邪邪一笑，犹如黑夜中冷酷的目光。

40. I suppose it seems to you a kind of curse. It must be very dismal.

你觉得那是一种诅咒。那一定是种令人伤心的诅咒。

41. Why, you ask, was I bound and chained to this cold and dismal place?

你问我为何受禁锢的枷锁在这又冷又暗的地方?

42. Lawrence Summers, one of President Clinton's treasury secretaries, said the odds of a recession this year went up after the dismal employment report.

克林顿政府的财政部部长，说道，在令人沮丧的雇佣报告后，今年经济衰退的比率增加了。

43. Clyde and Roberta were both becoming desperate, and Clyde saw his possible marriage to the girl as a dismal ending to all his hopes for a bright future.

克莱德和罗伯塔急得走投无路，克莱德认为，要是他不得不与这姑娘结婚，那么他想要青云直上的一切希望都将化为泡影。

44. Clyde saw his possible marriage to the girl as a dismal ending to all his hopes for a bright future.

克莱德认为，要是他不得不与这姑娘结婚，那么他想要青云直上的一切希望都将化为泡影。

45. Its “civil liberties” are still assessed at a dismal 6.

其“公民自由”依然被评为令人沮丧的6级。

46. Chelsea midfielder Lampard has seen England drop to third in Group E behind Russia and Croatia after last month's dismal defeat in Zagreb.

切尔西中场兰帕德见证了英格兰上个月在萨格勒布的溃败后，球队没落到第E小组的第三位。

47. Don't be dismal or fret, but do your duty and you'll get your reward.

别垂头丧气，怨天尤人了吧。尽到你自己的责任，你会得到报偿的。

48. Forbid it as we shouldn't all flop (if it was anyways convenient) to get 'em out o' this here dismal risk!

别应验，我们都应当跪下来（若是方便的话）祈祷他们逃出这种可怕的危险。

49. Arrived at the dreadful place, he wormed his small body through the crowd and saw the dismal spectacle.

到了这个可怕的地方后，他矮小的身体在人群中拱来拱去挤到了前场，看见了悲凉的场面。

50. The future looks pretty dismal.

前途看来十分黯淡。

51. The same dismal story is being repeated in health and water services, which are also de facto privatized.

医疗卫生与水利服务同样令人沮丧，事实上，这些部门已实现私有化。

52. Even the most dismal and unstable circumstances can become something to be clung to.

即使最凄惨和不稳定的情况依然可以成为值得坚持的情况。

53. Last year's harvest was a dismal failure.

去年庄稼歉收，令人十分沮丧。

54. Still, in the morning, when her household duties would infringe upon her and Hurstwood sat there, a perfect load to contemplate, her fate seemed dismal and unrelieved.

可是，到了早晨，她受到家务的骚扰，而赫斯渥则坐在那里，俨然一个累赘，这时她的命运还是显得凄惨而沉重。

55. O wild and dismal night storm, with wind! O belching and desperate!

啊，暴风雨已然成形，高涨，沿着海岸飞奔疾走？

56. It was rough living in the house all the time, considering how dismal regular and decent the widow was in all her ways.

因为那寡妇一举一动都很讲究那些死气沉沉的规矩和体面，在她家里过日子可真是一天到晚活受罪。

57. Early in the dismal morning on a calm, apprehensive Fridas, the small band of skooma-laden men moved through the quiet dark towards the church.

在一个平静的令人不安的阴沉星期五的大早，一小撮斯库玛瘾君子们穿行在寂静的黑暗里，去往教堂方向。

58. His reflections as he made his toilette were rather dismal .

在他梳装打扮的时候，他头脑里思绪万千，并不愉快。

59. The dismal story of ventures in other places is quickly told.

在其它几个地方的冒险很快就结束了，故事都很凄惨。

60. At a hearing on Capitol Hill, Commissioner of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Keith Hall, described the unemployment figures as dismal.

在国会联合经济委员会举行的一个听证会上，劳工统计局局长凯斯.霍尔表示，新的失业数据的确令人沮丧。

61. There was something to celebrate about amid the dismal environment on rocky Patmos.

在多岩的拔摩岛凄凉的环境中，原来也有值得庆祝的事。

62. In a generally dismal climate for media companies two outfits are thriving.

在媒体公司普遍低迷的气候下，两家公司生意兴旺。

63. 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。

64. Stung by the public’s dismal reaction to their sophomore effort, the band took time off to regroup and plan their next move.

在第二张专辑遭受公众消极反响之后，乐队受到刺激，休整了一段时间，重新组合，并策划下一步行动。

65. Amid a dismal year for office equipment, Xerox forged ahead with new eco-friendly technologies and continued its move beyond hardware into services.

在这办公设备销售凄惨的一年，施乐逐步推进新环保技术，并且持续将脚步迈过硬件，走向服务。

66. I lived two years in this dismal condition.

在这种悲惨的环境里我过了两年。

67. The agony she had endured silently in the dismal lime-walk had grown too strong for her, and she broke into a tempest of hysterical sobbing.

在阴森森的菩提幽径里她默默地忍受的痛苦，强大得实在让她难以忍受，她迸发出了一阵暴风雨般的、歇斯底里的呜咽。

68. In many ways, this series of trials gives France a dismal image.

多年来，这一连串审判令法国形象黯然失色。

69. The prognosis for patients with glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common primary brain tumor, is dismal.

多形性胶质母细胞瘤(GBM)是常见的原发性脑肿瘤，患者的预后不佳。

70. Their dismal scream is truly Ben Jonsonian.(18) Wise midnight hags!

夜半的智慧的女巫！

71. Then came night-dark, dismal, silent night.

夜已来临，这是黑暗，凄凉，沉寂的一夜。

72. Although most patients can be cured,outcome of some patients remains dismal.

大多数患者可以治愈,但仍有少数患者死于该病。

73. The weather was dismal, and it was very cold.

天气很坏，冷得要命。

74. The place assumes the most dismal, sinister character when darkness came on.

天色暗下来，这里带上最阴森凶险的色彩。

75. She listened to its dismal threnody, tapping her teeth with her red pencil and watching rivulets snaking down the windowpanes.

她一边谛听着那忧悒的悲歌，一边用红色的铅笔轻击着她的牙齿，看着雨水顺窗玻璃蜿蜒流下。

76. Her speech continued in the same dismal strain.

她以悲伤的语调接著往下说。

77. She work in a dismal little room in the attic.

她在阁楼上的一间阴暗的小房间里工作。

78. She nodded. "Pretty dismal, isn't it?" She said with a light laugh.

她点点头。“很让人郁闷,对不对?”她轻声笑着说。

79. "They feel heroic, as if they've saved these kids from a dismal existence," she said.

她说“他们感到很崇高，好像他们把这些孩子从凄凉的生活中挽救了出来。

80. "They feel heroic,as if they've saved these kids from a dismal existence," she said.

她说“他们感到很崇高，好像他们把这些孩子从凄凉的生活中挽救了出来。”