bleaker

英 [ˈbliːkə]

美 [ˈblikər]

adj.  不乐观的; 无望的; 暗淡的; 阴冷的; 无遮掩的; 荒凉的; 索然无味的
bleak的比较级

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （情形）没有希望的，前景暗淡的
  If a situation isbleak, it is bad, and seems unlikely to improve.
  1. The immediate outlook remains bleak...
     近期前景依然暗淡。
  2. Many predicted a bleak future.
     很多人都预测前景暗淡。
• ADJ-GRADED （地方）凄清的，荒凉的，萧瑟的
  If you describe a place asbleak, you mean that it looks cold, empty, and unattractive.
  1. The island's pretty bleak.
     这座岛屿一片荒凉。
  2. ...bleak inner-city streets.
     凄清的旧城区街道
• ADJ-GRADED （天气）阴冷的，寒冷的
  When the weather isbleak, it is cold, dull, and unpleasant.
  1. The weather can be quite bleak on the coast.
     沿海地区的天气会非常阴冷。
• ADJ-GRADED （人）无精打采的，沮丧的，阴郁的
  If someone looks or soundsbleak, they look or sound depressed, as if they have no hope or energy.
  1. His face was bleak...
     他脸色阴郁。
  2. Alberg gave him a bleak stare.
     阿尔伯格沮丧地凝视着他。

双语例句

• Her son, fortunately, was past childhood when they fell into extreme poverty; had he been younger his future would have been bleaker.
  幸运的是，汉密尔顿女士身陷极度贫困的时候她儿子已经长大，如果他年纪再小一些，那贫困将会对他的未来产生更大的影响。
• While no one doubts the seriousness of the current economic downturn, the picture for graduate recruitment, though worrying, could be bleaker.
  尽管没人怀疑当前经济低迷的严重程度，毕业生招聘的前景虽然堪忧，却本可以更惨淡些。
• But that only replaces genetic determinism with social determinism, which to my mind is even bleaker.
  但这只不过是用社会决定论取代了基因决定论，依我之见，社会决定论甚至更悲观。
• The state of the euro looks bleaker by the day.
  目前欧元的状况看来是每况愈下。
• Third, as has been noted, he is concerned with blacker and bleaker problems than Emerson ever.
  第三，前面已经说过，他所关注的问题比爱默生所承认的阴暗得多，凄凉得多。
• His own nightmares were bleaker.
  他自己曾经做过的噩梦则要比这更为凄惨。
• But the picture could be far bleaker if supply interruptions persist or intensify.
  但是如果炼油厂的中断继续下去或者规模扩大，那么前景就更加渺茫。
• At the conclusion of a two-day meeting in Washington, the Federal Open Market Committee, which sets interest rates, offered a bleaker picture of the US economy than it had at its last gathering two months ago.
  在华盛顿为期两天的会议结束之际，负责制定利率的美联储公开市场委员会（fomc）对美国经济的描述比两月前的上次会议更为黯淡。
• Two sources of confusion are apparent. First, some commentators are conflating asset price deflation with consumer price disinflation. Second, the bleaker and more deflationary forecasts seem to ignore trends in the major developing economies.
  引起混淆的两个来源显而易见：首先，一些评论员把资产价格下跌与消费者价格下跌混为一谈；其次，更黯淡和更强的通缩预期似乎忽略了主要发展中经济体的趋势。
• The rapid pace of the deterioration raised fears that the final three months of this year and early 2009 would be even bleaker, with effects of the recent near-collapse of the banking system still to hit.
  经济快速恶化使得人们担忧，随着近期银行体系接近崩溃带来的冲击逐渐显现，今年末季和2009年初将更加黯淡。