It was a rather dingy night, although a fair number of stars were out

“这是个昏暗的夜晚，虽然天空中有相当数量的星星。

A dingy room in a cheap hotel

低级旅馆中又黑又脏的房间

Hurstwood laid down his fifteen cents and crept off with weary steps to his allotted room. It was a dingy affair--wooden, dusty, hard. A small gas-jet furnished sufficient light for so rueful a corner.

赫斯渥放下2毛5分钱,拖着疲惫的脚步,慢慢地走到指定给他的房间里去。这是一间阴暗的房间--木地板,满屋灰尘,床铺很硬。一只小小的煤气喷嘴就照亮了如此可怜的一个角落。

a dingy room in a dingy boarding-house

昏暗的寄宿舍中一个昏暗的房间.

She made all the other girls I’d been out with seem dingy and clumsy and old before their time.

她使我先前闹翻了的所有姑娘统统显得邋遢、笨拙、缺乏朝气。

A dreary rain was falling as Celia’s taxi stopped at a dingy six-storey building on Thirty-seventh street

令人沉闷的细雨中，西莉亚坐的出租车在第五十七号街的一座破旧和肮脏的六层楼前停住了。

The poor were housed in dingy , rotting buildings.

穷人住在昏暗的朽烂的房子里。

Exactly as his mother had sat on the dingy white-quilted bed, with the child clinging to her, so she had sat in the sunken ship, far underneath him, and drowning deeper every minute, but still looking up at him through the darkening water

他的母亲同坐在铺着白床单的床边抱着孩子一样，这次是坐在一条沉船里，掉在他的下面，起渐往下沉，但仍从越来越发黑的海水中指头朝他看。

Making his day’s stations, the dingy printingcase, his three taverns, the Montmartre lair he sleeps short night in, rue de la Goutte-d’Or, damascened with flyblown faces of the gone

他每天的栖身之所是，肮脏的活字箱，经常光顾的三家酒馆，还有睡上一会儿觉的蒙特马特的窝，那是在金酒街上，用脸上巴着苍蝇屎的死者肖像装饰起来。

The reality was decaying, dingy cities where underfed people shuffled to and fro in leaky shoes, in patched-up nineteenth-century houses that smelt always of cabbage and bad lavatories

他们住的一例是上个世纪千疮百孔的房屋，身边一例是烂白菜跟脏茅坑的臭味。

Winston wrenched his body out of bed--naked, for a member of the Outer Party received only 3,000 clothing coupons annually, and a suit of pyjamas was 600--and seized a dingy singlet and a pair of shorts that were lying across a chair

温斯顿把身子拖下床;他赤裸着身子，谁让外围党员一年只发给三千张布票，买套睡衣还得花上六百张呢。他从椅子上，扯过一条脏兮兮的背心，还有条短裤。

Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us with much confidence/inspire much confidence in us

我们一见到那旅店昏暗肮脏,心里就很不痛快

A dingy manufacturing town

污浊的工业小镇.

Hungry Joe was a jumpy, emaciated wretch with a fleshless face of dingy skin and bone

享格利?乔是个瘦弱，神经过敏的可怜虫，一张黑脸皮包骨头，没有什么肌肉。

The doomed leaves pass through on their way to dingy , and yellow, and red.

叶子注定要由暗淡而泛黄,然后变红。

a dingy manufacturing town

一座肮脏的工业城镇.

Finally, fifteen minutes later, at exactly 9 o’clock, rich dad walked out of his office, said nothing, and signaled with his hand for me to enter his dingy office.

又过了15分钟,正好9点,富爸爸终于走出了他的办公室。他什么也没说,用手示意要我跟着他去那间小办公室。

In the former thoroughfare business men and travellers were making for comfortable hotels. In the latter, crowds on cold errands shifted past dingy stores, in the deep recesses of which lights were already gleaming.

在百老汇大街上,商人和旅客都朝舒适的旅馆赶去。在波威里街上,冒着寒冷出来办事的人,转过一家又一家幽暗的店铺,店堂的深处已经亮起了灯光。

In one of buildings Feliks rented a dingy room from an Irish woman called bridget

在其中一幢楼房里，费利克从一位名叫布里奇特的爱尔兰妇女那里租了一间昏暗的房间。

Slowly, in mild afternoon sunshine, he walked up a dingy street in the direction of Mr Charrington’s shop, keeping one eye open for the patrols, but irrationally convinced that this afternoon there was no danger of anyone interfering with him

在下午温煦的阳光照沐下，他沿着一条肮脏的街道，朝着却林顿先生的铺子慢慢地走去，一边留神注意着有没有巡逻队，一边又毫无理由地认为这天下午不会有人来打扰他。

The houses look dingy in a smoky city.

在烟雾满布的城中，房屋看起来都很脏。

A few dingy olives and stunted fig-trees struggled hard for existence, but their withered dusty foliage abundantly proved how unequal was the conflict. Between these sickly shrubs grew a scanty supply of garlic, tomatoes, and eschalots

在这片土地上，即这个花园里，北纬三十度的灼热的阳光的猛晒之下，有几棵无精打采的橄榄树和发育不健全的无花果树，它们那萎谢的叶子上盖满了灰尘。

Opposite this grandeur, on the surrey side, were the dingy warehouses and factories of Lambeth

在这壮观的景物对面，在萨里这一边，是兰贝斯的脏污的栈房和一家家工厂。

After much searching,I ran him to earth in a dingy hotel.

找了很久，我终于在一家肮脏的旅舍找到他。

Here the counsel in his wig and gown, and here the old Jew clothesman under his dingy tiara

这里既有头戴假发、身穿礼服的法律顾问，又有头缠肮脏毛巾的老年犹太成衣商

||1: The shah’s gaudy fete at Persepolis, not far from Cyrus’s tomb, held to celebrate the monarchy’s 2,500th birthday, epitomised a half-century of montazh: a succession of flashy buildings and self-congratulatory statues which helped to conceal the dislocations of a society on fast-forward. ||2: Construction faltered for lack of cement; many of Iran’s ports became clogged with shiploads of imports. ||3: The minister of the shah’s court, driving through Tehran in his Chrysler Imperial in 1969, noticed dingy side streets with “not an ounce of asphalt”. ||4: Lashing out at the grandiose party at Persepolis, Ali Shariati, an Iranian leftist writer, denounced 5,000 years of deprivation and social injustice. ||5: Khomeini, then in exile in Iraq, thundered for the first time that Islam was fundamentally opposed to monarchy.

||1:离伊朗王赛勒斯坟墓不远处的波斯波利斯曾举行了盛大的宴会庆祝伊朗王朝成立2500周年，通过画面剪辑简单回顾了一下伊朗半个世纪以来的历史：一排排高楼大厦，一座座自我标榜的雕像，这些都掩盖了这个快速发展国家背后的混乱。||2:缺乏混凝土结构的建筑摇摇欲坠，船舶上的进口商品使得港口混乱不堪。||3:1969年伊朗王朝法官乘坐克莱斯勒帝国旗舰名车前往德黑兰（Tehran），就注意到街道两边混乱不堪，没有一条柏油路。||4: 伊朗左翼作家Ali Shariati猛烈抨击波斯波利斯的奢华盛会，指责5000年的政权废止和社会的不公。 ||5:当时被流放伊拉克的霍梅尼大声疾呼伊朗人民是坚决反对皇权的。

||1:THE Cross Bones Graveyard lies on a dingy street in south London.The medieval prostitutes buried there were much used and little loved ; yet their graves have become a modest attraction.||2:The unconsecrated cemetery’s rusty gates are festooned with colourful feathers, trinkets and ribbons.||3:The most ardent well-wishers, who are campaigning for the graveyard to be protected as a monument, hold monthly vigils there at which they chant poetry and remember the long-ago outcasts.

||1:十字骨墓地坐落于伦敦南部一条肮脏阴暗的街道，在墓地中长眠的中世纪妓女被一再利用却得不到任何关爱；但是如今她们的坟墓却成为了一个不大不小的旅游景点。||2:被视为不圣洁的墓地大门虽然已经锈迹斑斑，但现在却被多彩的羽毛，小饰品以及彩带装点着。||3:最虔诚的一批许愿者，正致力于申请将这片墓地作为历史遗迹保护起来，他们每月都会来守夜一次，在墓地旁吟唱圣歌以纪念这群故去的放逐者们。

New York’s tabloids now call America’s dingy , claustrophobic and busiest railway terminus “Pain Station”.

因此，纽约小报现在把这个肮脏的、封闭而最繁忙的火车总站称为是“疼痛站”。

Home video, in turn, revolutionised pornography by moving it from dingy theatres to the privacy of suburban living rooms.

反过来，家用录像带也引发了成人影视行业的大革命，将它们从黑暗的影剧院带到了郊外私密的起居室。

Inside the ceilings are low, the lighting dingy and the air thick with stale smoke.

里面的天花板低小，灯光昏暗，空气中弥漫着陈腐的烟雾。

dingy wool

n.黑污毛,脏毛

a dingy room

肮脏昏暗的房间

dingy cutworm

n.番茄褐夜蛾

dingy finish tobacco

叶子颜色暗淡的烟草

dingy yellow horizon

n.暗黄色土层

pale and dingy tongue

舌淡暗

pale and dingy tongue with white fur

舌痧暗,苔白