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dreary adj.沉闷的；令人沮丧的；情绪低落的 (1) 在白天，那沉闷的时刻，就和第一个凄凉的下午一样，忧郁寂寞地度过。(2) 它背上灰黄斑驳的花纹，跟沉闷的天空遥遥相应，造成和谐的色调。 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.

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英 ['drɪəri] 美 ['drɪri] (1) By day the monotonous hours wore on in the same heavy, hashed manner as on that first dreary afternoon.(2) Its yellow ambiguous stripes and dreary sky are homologous, which makes the world harmonious. 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! 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]沉闷的；枯燥无味的；令人沮丧的 If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. ...a dreary little town in the Midwest...位于中西部的沉闷的小镇They live such dreary lives.他们的生活如此乏味！drearily...a drearily familiar scenario.俗套的沉闷剧情

英语单词	dreary
英美音标	英 ['drɪəri] 美 ['drɪri]
中文释义	adj.沉闷的；令人沮丧的；情绪低落的
英语例句	(1) By day the monotonous hours wore on in the same heavy, hashed manner as on that first dreary afternoon. (2) Its yellow ambiguous stripes and dreary sky are homologous, which makes the world harmonious.
中文例句	(1) 在白天，那沉闷的时刻，就和第一个凄凉的下午一样，忧郁寂寞地度过。 (2) 它背上灰黄斑驳的花纹，跟沉闷的天空遥遥相应，造成和谐的色调。
vocabulary简明	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!
vocabulary扩展	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.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]沉闷的；枯燥无味的；令人沮丧的 If you describe something as dreary, you mean that it is dull and depressing. ...a dreary little town in the Midwest... 位于中西部的沉闷的小镇 They live such dreary lives. 他们的生活如此乏味！ drearily ...a drearily familiar scenario. 俗套的沉闷剧情

Dreary I Call Drearily 英 Drɪəri] 美 Drɪri Adj.沉闷的；令人沮丧的；情绪低落的