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单词 bleakness
释义
bleakness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈbliːk.nəs/us
/ˈbliːk.nəs/
thequalityof beingcold,unpleasantand notwelcomingorattractive:
荒凉；凄凉
Emily Brontëimmortalizedthe bleakness of theYorkshireMoors.艾米莉·勃朗特将约克郡荒野的荒凉景象不朽化。
Thescenehas theusualbleakness of anairportpanorama.这个场景具有机场全景图一般的苍凉感。
Synonyms
barrenness
desolation(EMPTINESS)
grimness(UGLINESS)
starkness
thequalityofofferinglittle or nohopefor thefuture:
（境况）惨淡，无希望
The bleakness ofprisonlifeledhim tohaltalllegalappeals.监狱生活的绝望使他停止了所有的法律上诉。
Despite the novel's bleakness, it would be amistakenot toreadit.尽管这部小说很凄凉，但不读却是个错误。
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bleak
More examples
  • AsolitarywireofChristmaslightsstrungacrosstheceilingonlyaddsto theoverallbleakness.
  • We had beenwarnedabout the bleakness of theplacebefore wevisited.
  • There is a bleakness oflifethat goes withdepression.
  • Herarelymentionedto anyone the bleakness of hischildhood.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Describing bad weather
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Not attractive to look at
Not hopeful
(Definition ofbleaknessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofbleakness

bleakness
Even more schematic from a dramatic point of view, indeed banal, would be a mapping of this opposition on to one between harmoniousness andbleakness.
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Since everything interesting lies in between, one can imagine thebleaknessof paralogics.
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He argues that at times carers are incapable of facing thebleaknessof the future for their relatives, and they resort to providing care which effectively dehumanises that individual.
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The second factor which may ameliorate thebleaknessof poverty in old age, particularly for women, concerns changes in the labour market especially in 'women's occupations'.
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It's crucial that while such plays might contain shocking scenes, the really disturbing thing about them is thebleakness, nihilism, or despair of the emotions of their characters.
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If people do not have any training, the future into which we are going is a future of almost totalbleaknessfor the unskilled.
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We cannot take much comfort from that, because it has simply allowed the humanitarian problem to emerge in all itsbleakness.
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Apart from the emotional associations, there are the general architecture andbleaknessof these places which make a person fear their ultimate freedom.
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It may not save money but it would provide a better environment than thebleaknessof even the most caring hospital ward.
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The question that must be posed, in all itsbleaknessand harshness, is which majority and whose consent?
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A perpetualbleaknesshas been removed.
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I am reminded by the environment and the communities there of thebleaknessof life and the deprivation that exists in the places covered by my short journey.
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It was, however, also attacked in some quarters for its supposedbleaknessand unrelenting tone.
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The atmosphere ofbleaknessis reinforced by the random figures in the upper ground that scramble for a better view.
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Other footages from 1995 also displayed scenes of similar dreariness, using winters naturalbleaknessto exacerbate the severity of the scenes.
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