bleak

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a. 萧瑟的, 荒凉的, 阴冷的

发音

US /bliːk/

词形变化

bleaks 复数 bleaks bleaker 比较级 bleaker bleakest bleakest 最高级

教材释义与例句

形容词

阴冷的；荒凉的，无遮蔽的；黯淡的，无希望的；冷酷的；单调的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small European river fish (Alburnus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae.

adj.
  1. 1.

    Without color; pale; pallid.

    苍白

  2. 2.

    Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

    荒凉

    冷清

    a bleak and bare rock

    a bleak, crater-pocked moonscape

    They escaped across the bleak landscape.

    We hiked across open meadows and climbed bleak mountains.

  3. 3.

    Unhappy; cheerless; miserable; emotionally desolate.

    黯淡

    惨淡

    凄凉

    Downtown Albany felt bleak that February after the divorce.

    A bleak future is in store for you.

    The news is bleak.

    The survey paints a bleak picture.

词汇关系

形容词

同义词 8

black cutting raw bare stark dim barren desolate

近义相关 3

cold hopeless inhospitable

相关短语

Danube bleak 似蜥欧白鱼

词源

From Middle English bleke (“small river fish, bleak, blay”), perhaps an alteration (due to Old English blǣc (“bright”) or Old Norse bleikja) of Old English blǣġe (“bleak, blay, gudgeon”); or perhaps from a diminutive of Middle English *bleye (“blay”), equivalent to blay + -ock or blay + -kin. See blay.

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