Front | dreary |
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Pron | ['drɪri] |
Back | 【DREARY】 It was a dreary day, cold and without sunshine. 这是一个阴沉的日子,寒冷又没有阳光。 【重点词汇】 dreary adj. 阴沉的 同: gloomy |
Vocab | drearylacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
When something is dreary it's depressing or lifeless in a rainy-day way. I finished my work, there was nothing on TV, and the rain just wouldn't stop: what a dreary day! Dreary can refer to a feeling, a place, a time, or even a thing. It sounds a little like a combination of "drizzle" and "teary," and that's not a bad way to remember what it means. My grandmother's house was a dreary affair: run down, poorly lit, and silent but for the buzz of the florescent light in the cramped kitchen. Some might call the recession a depression: I call it dreary, either way. If the economy remains dreary like this much longer, I just might move to China. All forms of 'dreary' will appear on average once every 376 pages. drearily dreariness dreary |
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