…and we found ourselves, with the peace stripped from our day, entertaining group after group of dreary acquaintances…

…这天的消闲就此完了。我们忙着接待一批又一批叫人头痛的泛泛之交。

Hester Prynne, gazing steadfastly at the clergyman, felt a dreary influence come over her, but wherefore or whence she knew not; unless that he seemed so remote from her own sphere, and utterly beyond her reach.

不错眼神地紧盯着牧师的海丝特·白兰,感到一种阴沉的势力渗透她的全身,至于这种势力出于什么原因和从何而来,她却无从知晓:她只觉得他离她自己的天地十分遥远,已经全然不可及了。

Nay, more, they had begun to look upon the scarlet letter as the token, not of that one sin, for which she had borne so long and dreary a penance, but of her many good deeds since.

不仅如此,他们还开始不再把那红字看作是罪过的标记--她为此已忍受了多么长时间的阴惨惨的惩罚啊--而是当成自那时起的许多善行的象征。

But I still face westward with a dreary moan

侧身西望常咨嗟。

Addressing envelopes all the time is dreary work.

成天给信封写地址是一种沉闷单调的工作。

But the romantic within him demanded the exploitation of his sensations, not the dreary and exacting labours of politics.

但是他内心的浪漫主义因素要求他去抒发情感，而不是去从事沉闷而艰苦的政治工作。

Both operations failed, and the Italian campaign bogged down to a dreary stalemate

但这两项行动都以失败

A dreary forsaken beach in winter

冬季人迹罕至的海滨.

We could not stop where we were, to be baked by the sun and eaten up by the mosquitoes, till we died of fever in that dreary marsh

反正不能停在那儿让太阳把我们烤干或者是喂了蚊子，最终在这个可怕的沼泽地里害热病死去。

When philip thought that he must spend over four years more with that dreary set of fellows his heart sank

菲利浦一想到他还得和这帮枯燥无味的家伙再打四年交道时，他的心一下子就凉了。

Dreary people leading dreary lives

过着无聊生活的无聊的人.

When by our window can we trim the wicks again and talk about this endless, dreary night or rain?

何当共剪西窗烛,却话巴山夜雨时

Great areas of it, even for a Party member, were neutral and non-political, a matter of slogging through dreary jobs, fighting for a place on the Tube, darning a worn-out sock, cadging a saccharine tablet, saving a cigarette end

即便对党员而言，生活的许多方面，依照是倾向中性，不论政治。那是拼死拼活做完沉闷的工作，是地铁里抢个座儿，是补一双破袜子，讨一份糖精片，省一个烟屁股。

She grew to have a dread of children; for they had imbibed from their parents a vague idea of something horrible in this dreary woman, gliding silently through the town, with never any companion but one only child.

她对孩子们渐生畏惧之心,因为他们从父母那里摄取到一种模模糊糊的概念;这个除去一个小孩之外从无伴侣、在镇上蹈踊独行的可怕的女人,身上有着某种骇人之处。

She’s dreary little prude

她是个死板、假正经的女人!

relentlessly her mind travelled on over the dreary interval

她丝毫不怜悯自己地继续追忆那段阴郁岁月。

She is very much in need of excitement, but that dreary professor has none to offer

她所需要的那种刺激，不是‘灰色的教授’所能给与的!

It was as if a new birth, with stronger assimilations than the first, had converted the forest-land, still so uncongenial to every other pilgrim and wanderer, into Hester Prynne’s wild and dreary , but life-long home.

她在这块土地上好象获得了比她降生人世更具融熔力量的新生,海丝特·白兰的这一新生把所有其他移民和飘泊者仍感到格格不入的森林地带,变成了她自己荒凉阴郁但却是终生安身立命之家。

Sad and Dreary Life Relieved against Money World

金钱世界映衬下的悲凉人生

Poor Foker found the dinner at Richmond to be the most dreary entertainment

可怜的福克觉得,里士满的宴会索然无味。

Copying manuscripts all the time is dreary work.

老是抄写手稿是件枯燥乏味的差事。

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 land had vanished, and was expressed only by the low and dreary thunder of the surf.

陆地已经隐去，只有拍岸浪的轰鸣，低沉，阴郁，说明它的存在。

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.--George Eliot

没有了目的，生活便暗淡无光。--艾略特

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.--George Eliot, British novelist

没有了目的,生活便郁闷无光。--英国小说家家略特

What makes life dreary is the want of motive

没有目的,人生就黯淡无光

What makes life dreary is the want of motive.-- George Eliot

没有目的，生命便惨淡无光。--艾略特

It is very dreary to do the same job everyday.

每天都做同样工作是很单调的。

During the whole of a dull, dark, and soundless day in the autumn of the year, when the clouds hung up pressively low in the heavens, I had been passing alone, on horseback, through a singularly dreary tract of country

那年秋天，一个天气阴沉、昏暗而又寂静的日子，低压的云层笼罩着大地。整整一天，我独自骑着马，在一条异常沉闷的乡间小路上行进

That is dreary work.

那是很枯燥的工作.