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- (of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements(地区, 土地)荒凉的; 裸露的, 光秃秃的:
a bleak and barren moor.
荒凉而贫瘠的沼泽地。
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- (of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary(建筑物, 房间)索然乏味的; 不宜居住的; 凄凉的:
he looked round the bleak little room in despair.
他绝望地环顾这冷清的小房间。
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- (of the weather) cold and miserable(天气)寒冷的; 凄凉的:
a bleak midwinter's day.
仲冬的一个寒冷日子。
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- (of a situation or future prospect) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome(形势, 前景)无望的, 令人心灰意冷的; 黯淡的:
he paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way
他描绘了一个迷失了方向的公司, 认为它前景黯淡
the future looks bleak.
前途黯淡。
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- (of a person or a person's expression) cold and forbidding(人或其表情)冷漠的, 冷峻的:
his mouth was set and his eyes were bleak.
他嘴巴紧闭, 目光冷峻。
派生词
bleakly
adverbbleakness
noun词源
Old English blāc 'shining, white', or in later use from synonymous Old Norse bleikr; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to BLEACH.