Dismal

(a.) Fatal; ill-omened; unlucky.

(a.) Gloomy to the eye or ear; sorrowful and depressing to the feelings; foreboding; cheerless; dull; dreary; as, a dismal outlook; dismal stories; a dismal place.

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• You are a very bad boy,' retorted Bella, 'to talk about dismal things and be out of spirits. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• It was daylight and the country was wet, low and dismal looking. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• It rained on all morning and turned the snow to slush and made the mountain-side dismal. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
• The shame, desertion, wretchedness, and exposure of the great capital; the wet, the cold, the slow hours, and the swift clouds of the dismal night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• During this space he had not been to his mother's dismal old house. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• I have thought so, often,' said the dismal man, without noticing the action. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• They are not worth your notice,' said the dismal man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• With this beneficent wish, Mr. Snagsby coughs a cough of dismal resignation and submits himself to hear what the visitor has to communicate. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But she had the dismal precocity of poverty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I didn't take it,' the dismal youth replied. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The few children made a dismal cheer, as the carriage, splashing mud, drove away. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• How anxious, how dismal, how long! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• I got at my spectacles, with some fumbling and difficulty, feeling the Sergeant's dismal eyes fixed on me all the time. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• But those excellent soldiers would make dismal citizens. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• To the devil with this dismal darkness, wrapping itself about one with a chill! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He turned round: and the dismal man was at his side. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Then came the night--dark, dismal, silent night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• They were the decaying skeletons of departed mails, and in that lonely place, at that time of night, they looked chill and dismal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Next we went to visit the Morgue, that horrible receptacle for the dead who die mysteriously and leave the manner of their taking off a dismal secret. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• But you must find me a dismal kind of person if you suppose that I never yield to an impulse. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• The poor old fellow is a dismal wreck. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Lucky for you I am, for if I put on crushed airs and tried to be dismal, as you do, we should be in a nice state. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Oh, George is not as dismal as you think. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• I need not inquire whether his dismal behaviour was natural or assumed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• As George entered the house, old John Sedley was passing out of the banker's parlour, looking very dismal. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Sergeant Cuff's dismal eyes looked me hard in the face. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Certainly,' said Mr. Snodgrass: for the sunken eye of the dismal man rested on him, and he felt it necessary to say something. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I'll explain to you, then,' said the gentleman, after another and a dismal pause, 'why you wouldn't paper a room with representations of horses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• I did,' replied Mr. Pickwick; 'and I certainly thought--' 'I asked for no opinion,' said the dismal man, interrupting him, 'and I want none. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• You shall have it,' replied the dismal man. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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