Dismally
['dɪzməli]
解释:
(adv.) in a dreadful manner; 'as he looks at the mess he has left behind he must wonder how the Brits so often managed to succeed in the kind of situation where he has so dismally failed'.
(adv.) in a cheerless manner; 'in August 1914 , there was a dismally sentimental little dinner, when the French, German, Austrian and Belgian members of the committee drank together to the peace of the future'.
整理:玛米--From WordNet
解释:
(adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
手打:旺达
例句:
- Whatever he put on, became him less (it dismally seemed to me) than what he had worn before. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- Thank you,' said Tom, shaking his head dismally, and chewing rosebuds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- He walked all the way home very dismally, and dined alone with Briggs. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- And if anything could have made him look more abject or more dismally ridiculous than before, it would have been his so displaying himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Dismally so, said he; and I--well, I never want to talk seriously in hot weather. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
手打:旺达