drear

1. Daylight began to forsake the red-room; it was past four o'clock, and the beclouded afternoon was tending to drear twilight.
   阳光开始从红屋子里消逝；已经过了四点了，阴沉沉的下午渐渐转为凄凉的黄昏。
2. The autumn wind blows drear and bleak;
   秋天的风吹阴郁和凄凉；
3. Never, with my consent, shall that intercourse cease which has been the day-dawn of my existence, the sun which has shed warmth on the cold drear length of the anticipated prospect of life.
   我认为我们之间的交往永远不会终止，这种交往给我带来了生命的曙光，是洒在我冰凉而漫长的人生旅途上的温暖阳光。
4. Was he to pay a year of his life to verify the certainty of being thrust into the drear realm of the null-talented?
   用一年的时间做代价来证明自己没有任何天赋，然后被强行送到没有魔法的平凡世界？
5. I gaze on the moon as I tread the drear wild.
   行在阴霾的旷野我凝视着天上的月。
6. To stray away into these forests drear,/ alone, without a peer
   迷失在这沉郁的林中／孤独，无伴
7. It is small wonder, then that the progressive era was a drear period for Negroes ambitious for the advancement of their race.
   因此，毫不奇怪，进步时代对于热望争取其种族进步的黑人来说，是一个抑郁的时期。

adj

1. causing dejection
   1. a blue day
   2. the dark days of the war
   3. a week of rainy depressing weather
   4. a disconsolate winter landscape
   5. the first dismal dispiriting days of November
   6. a dark gloomy day
   7. grim rainy weather

   Synonym:    bluedarkdingydisconsolatedismalgloomygrimsorrydrabdreary