Dismally
['dɪzməli]
解釋/意思:
(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
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably.
手打:旺达
例句/造句/用法:
- Whatever he put on, became him less (it dismally seemed to me) than what he had worn before. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Thank you,' said Tom, shaking his head dismally, and chewing rosebuds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- The wind howled dismally all night, and strange cracking and groaning noises sounded here, there, and everywhere in the empty house. 威爾基·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·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And if anything could have made him look more abject or more dismally ridiculous than before, it would have been his so displaying himself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Dismally so, said he; and I--well, I never want to talk seriously in hot weather. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
手打:旺达