bleak

1. ADJ If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve. 黯淡的

The immediate outlook remains bleak. 最近的前景依然很黯淡。

2. bleaknessN-UNCOUNT 黯淡

The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed. 美国就业市场的持续低迷被认为是其根源。

3. ADJ If you describe a place as bleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive. 荒凉的

The island's pretty bleak. 这个岛很荒凉。

4. ADJ When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant. 阴冷的

The weather can be quite bleak on the coast. 沿海一带的天气可能会十分阴冷。

5. ADJ If someone looks or sounds bleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy. 沮丧的

His face was bleak. 他面容沮丧。

6. bleaklyADV 沮丧地

"There is nothing left," she says bleakly. “一点也不剩了，”她沮丧地说。

7. N any slender silvery European cyprinid fish of the genus Alburnus, esp A. lucidus, occurring in slow-flowing rivers 欧鲌鱼; 银鲤