bleak /bliːk/ CET6 TEM4 ( bleaker, bleakest )

• 1. 

  ADJ If a situation is bleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve. 黯淡的

  例：

  The immediate outlook remains bleak.

  最近的前景依然很黯淡。

• 2. 

  bleakness N-UNCOUNT 黯淡

  例：

  The continued bleakness of the American job market was blamed.

  美国就业市场的持续低迷被认为是其根源。

• 3. 

  ADJ If you describe a place as bleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive. 荒凉的

  例：

  The island's pretty bleak.

  这个岛很荒凉。

• 4. 

  ADJ When the weather is bleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant. 阴冷的

  例：

  The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.

  沿海一带的天气可能会十分阴冷。

• 5. 

  ADJ If someone looks or sounds bleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy. 沮丧的

  例：

  His face was bleak.

  他面容沮丧。

• 6. 

  bleakly ADV 沮丧地

  例：

  "There is nothing left," she says bleakly.

  “一点也不剩了，”她沮丧地说。

• 7. 

  N any slender silvery European cyprinid fish of the genus Alburnus, esp A. lucidus, occurring in slow-flowing rivers 欧鲌鱼; 银鲤