bleak
英 [bli?k]
美[blik]
- adj. 陰冷的；荒涼的，無遮蔽的；黯淡的，無希望的；冷酷的；單調的
英英釋意
- 1. offering little or no hope;
- "the future looked black"
- "prospects were bleak"
- "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge
- "took a dim view of things"
- 2. providing no shelter or sustenance;
- "bare rocky hills"
- "barren lands"
- "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
- "the desolate surface of the moon"
- "a stark landscape"
- 3. unpleasantly cold and damp;
- "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"