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

• They say these are our darkest days, and the future looks bleaker than ever.
  他们说，这是我们最黑暗的日子，而未来看起来会更加暗淡。
• 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。
• 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。
• In New York, Chagall's painting became bleaker, reflecting the events of the time, and he produced some of his largest and subsequently more famous paintings.
  在纽约，夏加尔的油画变得色彩黯淡，作品反映当时的种种大事件。他还创作了一些最大的作品，后来又画了一些更加著名的油画。
• 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。
• But now that the panic has passed, something less frightening and rather bleaker is beckoning. Welcome to the politics of austerity.
  而现在，这种恐慌已经过去。某种不那么可怕、却更为黯淡的东西正发出召唤欢迎来到节俭型政治时代。
• So lack of employment now may portend an even bleaker future.
  因此，缺少就业岗位如今可能预示了一个更为暗淡的未来。
• But the very factors that benefit people with jobs higher productivity and sticky wages make prospects bleaker for those without them.
  但是正是使得有工作的人收益的因素高效率和刚性工资使得失业者的前景更加暗淡。
• However, the EU picture was made bleaker by its manufacturers 'fears about employment prospects, with significantly more expecting to cut jobs over the next 12 months than were expecting to hire additional workers.
  不过，制造商对就业前景的担心使欧盟的经济前景变得较为暗淡，预计未来12个月将裁员的欧盟制造商明显多于预期将增聘人手的企业。
• 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。