bleak

英 [bli?k] 美[blik]
  • adj. 陰冷的；荒涼的，無(wú)遮蔽的；黯淡的，無(wú)希望的；冷酷的；單調(diào)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"