dreary是什么意思_dreary的用法_词性_词根

双语例句

The little boy left his hometown on a dreary winter day.

这个小男孩在一个阴沉的冬日离开了他的家乡。
This dreary trip made tourists very bored.

这次乏味的旅行让游客们感到十分无聊。
The young man disdains to participate in dreary speeches.

这个年轻人不屑参与枯燥的演讲。
The weather is dreary, and you can't feel the sunshine.

天气很沉闷你感觉不到阳光
At 706 pages, Barack Obama's A Promised Land defies the norm of dreary presidential memoirs.

奥巴马的回忆录《应许之地》，尽管长达706页，却一改以往总统回忆录的单调乏味。
His old dreams had been so pleasant; but this reality was so dreary!

他的旧梦是如此美好；但现实是如此的枯燥！
Sunshine had come again into the blind woman's life, and made her days less dark and dreary.

阳光又回到了失明的奶奶的生活中，使她的日子不那么黑暗和沉闷了。
The house looked grim and dreary in the rain.

这房子在雨中显得阴郁凄凉。
How can he when it's such a great, bare, dreary place?

那地方那么大，那么光秃秃的，那么可怕，他怎么会喜欢呢？
Oh, how dark and comfortless it was in the dreary world!

啊，这个茫茫世界是多么黑暗和凄凉啊！

近义词

adj.

同根词

词根 drear

drear adj. 阴郁的；悲伤的（dreary）
drearily adv. 沉寂地；可怕地；令人厌倦地
dreariness n. 凄凉；沉寂；可怕

单词辨析

单调的；乏味的；厌烦的

dull指缺乏鲜明、吸引力或情趣而显得乏味、沉闷。

monotonous指没有变化、重复单调的。

tedious侧重指文章、演讲、演出等冗长乏味或环境等单调、沉闷，缺乏活力，使感到不舒服。

dreary侧重无趣味的，不活泼的事或思想状态。

百科

凄迷，指悲伤怅惘；景物凄凉迷茫。

释义

adj.

dull, bleak, and lifeless; depressing

沉闷的，枯燥无味的；阴郁的；无生气的；令人沮丧的

the dreary round of working, eating, and trying to sleep.

工作、吃饭以及想办法睡觉这种单调乏味的循环。

词源

"Old English drēorig ‘gory, cruel', also ‘melancholy', from drēor ‘gore', of Germanic origin; related to German traurig ‘sorrowful', also to DROWSY, and probably to DRIZZLE."