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Bleak Describe Ten English Word Bliːk Winter Trees

Front bleak
Pron [bliːk]
Back 【BLEAK】
In winter, when the trees are bare and snow covers the ground, the landscape is very bleak.
冬天里,树叶已落,白雪覆盖大地,景色十分荒凉。
【重点词汇】
bleak adj. 荒凉的
Vocab
bleakunpleasantly cold and damp

Something that is bleak is gloomy and depressing. If it's raining and dark, you might describe the night as bleak. If you have looked for work and no one will hire you, you could describe your prospects as bleak.

If you and the ten people sharing your lifeboat have been adrift for ten days and are down to your last cracker, your situation is bleak. A near synonym is dismal. Bleak is from Middle English bleik, from Old Norse bleikr "white, pale." This word is related to the English word bleach.

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