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单词 dismal prospect
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dismal prospect

collocation in English

meaningsofdismalandprospect

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dismal
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪz.məl/us
/ˈdɪz.məl/
sad and ...
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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
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(Definition ofdismalandprospectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdismal prospect

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I certainly was not reassured by the ratherdismalprospectof regional cultural consortiums.
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It is adismalprospect, but there it is.
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Yes, and there are enormous waiting lists, with adismalprospectfor the people at the bottom ever getting in at all.
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With all the pressures of collection and administration, the authority has adismalprospectof seeing any reduction in the £12 million rent arrears.
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Therefore, it is a verydismalprospectindeed.
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What we are failing to do is to see this as it should be seen, as an opportunity and not just as adismalprospect.
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In the light of the increase in violent crime that formed in our minds a ratherdismalprospect.
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They also face thedismalprospectof being confronted by the telly-tired child in the morning.
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In three directions he has adismalprospect.
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It will be a prettydismalprospectfor this nation if we are left behind in this struggle for export markets and manufactured goods.
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In view of the present policy, that is a strikinglydismalprospect.
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This is a prettydismalprospect, because we are up against severe competition.
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If we are to go over all this again, that is adismalprospect.
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That is a verydismalprospect, and it is quite time that we were discussing the problem of shipping.
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It may be that they are being safe and sure economists, but the people will not like contemplating thisdismalprospect.
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If not, it is adismalprospectfor our country.
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All that dark anddismalprospectwe have escaped by the fact that this measure is being undertaken in the course of the war.
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What adismalprospectfaces a newly-elected local councillor.
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It is altogether a growingdismalprospectwhich certainly does not please.
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It makes for adismalprospect.
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distant prospect

collocation in English

meaningsofdistantandprospect

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distant
adjective
uk
/ˈdɪs.tənt/us
/ˈdɪs.tənt/
far ...
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prospect
noun
uk
/ˈprɒs.pekt/us
/ˈprɑː.spekt/
the possibility that something good might happen in ...
See more atprospect

(Definition ofdistantandprospectfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofdistant prospect

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In this situation, economic recovery seemed only adistantprospect.
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In the context of the gendered division of care work, equal pensions resulting from equal lifetime earnings are adistantprospect.
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It will be but a dim anddistantprospectwhen it is first seen.
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When we first launched it in 1988, the whole idea seemed adistantprospect.
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I have just emerged from the halcyon days of youth, and can recall what adistantprospectreaching the age of 60 once seemed.
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It is adistantprospectrather than an immediate one irrespective of the attitudes that countries take to the convention.
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That may seem to some to be adistantprospect, but it is not so.
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We all acknowledge that frequent air journeys to the islands by large groups of civilians are a ratherdistantprospect.
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Realistically, that is adistantprospect, but it would be nice to have reliable data on which to base relief measures.
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At the present moment this is something quite nebulous, some fardistantprospectin which the majority of people hardly believe.
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Approving the opening of negotiations makes this a moredistantprospectand continues a policy of ongoing enlargement.
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For these children the liberating effect of higher education is adistantprospect.
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The subsidy was running at £12 million a year and there was not even adistantprospectof the project becoming viable.
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Everybody agreed that it was not a "distantprospect" but a very real prospect of what education ought to be in this country.
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That may now seem to many adistantprospect, but no other vision for the region offers any lasting hope.
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It seems adistantprospectnow.
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It may seem adistantprospectfrom the subject we are discussing, but when two spaceships dock in space there has to be careful preparation and co-operation.
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But so long as that peace is a moredistantprospectthan any of us would wish, it is important that these measures reach the statute book.
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Bailout eligibility is adistantprospectfor most covered jurisdictions.
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