The last dramatic meeting of the X club was held on a dismal rainy night

爱克斯社最近有声有色的会议是在一个凄凉的雨夜举行的。

The insurance industry is cursed with a set of dismal economic characteristics that make for a poor long-term outlook

保险业最近受到几项不利的经济因素所困而前景黯淡

Mournful,dismal ,or gloomy,especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree.

悲痛的悲伤的，低沉的或消沉的，尤其是达到一种夸张或荒谬可笑的程度

Express dismal feeling

表示沮丧的心情。

A dismal failure;a fiasco.

惨败令人沮丧的失败;大溃败

My no-named strategy proved a dismal failure, however. Long before the pup was weaned, the kids secretly began calling him Scampy, and before I knew it he had become as much a fixture as the fireplace. And just as immovable.

但是，我的不取名策略结果是彻底的失败。早在小狗断奶之前，孩子们已经偷偷地管它叫“小淘气”;我还没有明白过来，小狗已经像我们家壁炉似地永远固定在那儿，成为家庭不可分割的一员。

When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, and repose is tabooed by anxiety

当你由于讨厌的头痛而无法入睡时，焦虑会使你心烦意乱

This was a dreadful sight to me, especially when going down to the shore, I could see the marks of horror, which the dismal work they had been about had left behind it

对我来说,这真是一个可怕的景象。尤其是我走到岸边,看到他们所干的惨绝人寰的残杀所遗留下来的痕迹,更令人可怕!

But Hester could not resolve the query, being herself in a dismal labyrinth of doubt.

对这一逼问,海丝特可没法作答了,因为连她自己也尚在阴暗的迷宫中徘徊呢。

What dismal weather.

多么阴沉的天气。

What dismal weather!

多么阴晦的天气!

And the bounders who pretended they did, and started working the sex game, they were worse than ever. It was just dismal , and one had to put up with it.

而那些坏蛋们，假装着他们需要女人，而发动那性的把戏，这种人比一切更坏。多么悲惨呵!可是一个人不得不忍痛迁就。

A dismal book;a dismal performance on the cello.

乏味的书;沉闷无趣的大提琴演奏

At the sight of them, he felt dazed, as though he had died along with Shu-ying.It was a gloomy, dismal feeling, like that of the departed soul returning after death

方鸿渐看着发呆，觉得也陪淑英双双死了，萧条黯淡，不胜身后魂归之感。

Fanny asked what it was that made that odd-looking little man so dismal ?

芬妮问，究竟什么事使这个模样古怪的小家伙这么伤心?

Narrowing one of his beady eyes, Kuei Chang-lin went on in a dismal voice, “You forgot to warn Pockmarked Li not to let on in front of Ah Hsiang. That was a mistake

桂长林闭起他的一只小眼睛，又轻声说:“你刚才没有关照李麻子不要把我们的情形告诉阿祥，那是一个失着。

What dismal weather!

好阴沉的天气!

Located in a dismal or remote area.

荒凉的处于荒凉或遥远的地方的

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。

Her speech continued in the same dismal strain.

她以悲伤的语调接着往下说.

She works 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。

Over 70,000 people arrived in the Olympic Stadium in spite of dismal weather to witness the Opening Ceremony of the Games of the 15th Olympiad

尽管第15届奥运会开幕式的当天天气阴沉,但前往奥林匹克体育场的人数仍然超过7万人。

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。

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。

When he walked in, Lin Pei-shan was playing a dismal tune on the piano, while the yellow lamp-light, as dismal as the music, fell on her slender figure, which was sheathed in deep-blue silk

林佩珊正坐在钢琴前弹奏，那音调是异常悲凉。电灯的黄光落到她那个穿了深蓝色绸旗袍的颀长身体上，也显得阴惨沉闷。

an aura of dismal monotony,an accepted tedium of both journey and season(bJohn Fowles)

旅行和季节都充满了乏味单调的气氛以及大家公认的烦闷(b约翰·福尔斯)

an aura of dismal monotony,an accepted tedium of both journey and season(John Fowles)

旅行和季节都充满了乏味单调的气氛以及大家公认的烦闷(约翰·福尔斯)

at least, the nice rose once added a little bright color to the dismal life

美好的玫瑰花让一段灰暗的人生至少出现了一点缤纷的色彩。

The apparently dismal monotony of a school was replete with more intense excitement than my riper youth has derived from luxury.

明明是沉闷、单调的学校生活，偏偏热闹非凡，后来在稍为成熟的青年时代，过的虽是奢侈生活，倒没有这么热闹呢。

Closely following the jailer into the dismal apartment, appeared that individual of singular aspect, whose presence in the crowd had been of such deep interest to the wearer of the scarlet letter.

那个外表奇特的陌生人紧跟在看守身后走进了凄凉的牢房,他上午在人群中露面的时候,曾经引起了红字佩戴者的深切注意。

dismal science

沉闷[枯燥]的科学(资本主义社会中讽剌政治经济学)

dismal weather

n.阴沉的天气