cheerless

adj.

1. 阴冷的；阴暗的；阴郁的
   without warmth or colour so it makes you feel depressed
   1. a dark and cheerless room
      黑暗阴森的房间

1. ADJ-GRADED (地方或天气)沉闷的，令人不快的
   Cheerless places or weather are dull and depressing.
   1. The kitchen was dank and cheerless.
      厨房既潮湿又阴暗。
   2. ...a bleak, cheerless day.
      阴冷、惨淡的一天

1. Breakfast will be a cheerless affair for the Prime Minister this morning.
   今天的早餐会让首相感觉全然无味。
2. The kitchen was dank and cheerless.
   厨房既潮湿又阴暗。
3. Brazilians look gloomily forward to a New Year that even the president admits will be grey and cheerless.
   展望新年，巴西人心情沮丧，甚至连总统都承认明年困难重重，不容乐观。
4. They came back quiet and cheerless.
   他们回来了，闷闷不乐。
5. It was the end of November and the day was very cheerless.
   已经是十一月底了，天色十分阴暗。
6. Collins found a cigarette, brought his lighter to it and paced nervously around the small, cheerless room.
   柯林斯取出一支香烟，用打火机把烟点着，心神不定地在这间凄凉的小屋里踱来踱去。
7. The world had been so cheerless! My heart was a habitation large enough for many guests, but lonely and chill, and without a household fire.
   整个世界都是那么郁郁寡欢，我的心宽敞得可以容下好多客人，但孤寂而凄凉，没有一处家居的壁炉。
8. I cannot accept your praises, he interrupted hurriedly; on the contrary, I am always reproaching myself; but it is an uninteresting and cheerless subject.
   我不能接受您的赞扬，他慌忙打断她的话，相反，我一直在自我责备，不过说这些太乏味、太没意思了。
9. As a new comer, frankly, it's a little bit cold and cheerless here.
   作为一个新来的人，坦白说我觉得这里有点冷漠无趣。
10. Its key to it only solves the worry of the lock. I am a cheerless person and go all out to pursue something endlessly!
    锁的心事只有钥匙才知道。我是个冷淡的人。执着，永无止境的追求！
11. Application of Continuous Shift Arrangement and Responsibility-bound Grouping in Nursing Management The night-to-night duties can be hard and cheerless.
    连续性排班结合责任制分组在护理管理中的应用连续不断地上夜班是辛苦而乏味的。
12. It was a very dubious-looking, nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
    这是一个非常朦胧的、且非常黑暗而阴沉的夜晚，天气冷彻肌肤，了无生趣。
13. Inside the orphanage, Dumbledore is led to a cheerless room and is greeted by the cold stare of the young Tom Riddle.
    在孤儿院里，邓不利多被带到一个冰冷的房间中，而少年汤姆·里德尔正用冰冷的目光凝望着他。
14. Without the illuminate of sunshine, the world will be how doleful cold and cheerless.
    没有阳光的照射，世界将是多么的寂寞冷清。
15. With Mr Heathcliff, grim and saturnine, on the one hand, and Hareton, absolutely dumb, on the other, I made a somewhat cheerless meal, and bid adieu early.
    在我的一边坐的是希刺克厉夫先生，冷酷而阴沉，另一边是哈里顿，一声也不吭，我吃了一顿多少有点不愉快的饭，就早早的辞去了。
16. Cheerless is the day, the light under frowning clouds is like a punished child with traces of tears on its pale cheeks, and the cry of the wind is like the cry of a wounded world.
    这一天是不快活的。光在蹙额的云下，如一个被责打的儿童，灰白的脸上留着泪痕；风又号叫着，似一个受伤的世界的哭声。
17. It afforded her a little relief, of a dull and cheerless kind.
    这使她感到几分宽慰，不过这是一种索然无味而又凄然的宽慰罢了。
18. They live in a bare, cheerless apartment in downtown New york.
    他们住在纽约市中心一间四壁空空、阴暗惨淡的公寓里。
19. Had friends-my early friends are fled: How cheerless feels the heart alone, When all its former hopes are dead!
    有朋友早年的友谊已终结；孤苦的心灵怎能不忧郁，当原有的希望都黯然熄灭！
20. The cheerless surroundings had no effect on her.
    令人泄气的环境对她毫无影响。
21. The layout of the cottage was identical with that of Lucy's, but the atmosphere was different: this place was bare, cheerless and none too clean.
    室内布置与露西家雷同，但气氛却大有差异：空荡荡，缺乏生气，而且很脏。
22. During the early morning ride from the suburb, we sat drowsily with our collars up to our ears, a cheerless and taciturn bunch.
    一大清早我们就从郊区开始坐车，我们把衣领高竖到耳朵上，懒洋洋的坐在那，一群沉闷的，没有言语的人。
23. Bridging Reference: A Scenario-based Account; Against this cheerless backdrop The Boss of It All makes sense.
    搭桥参照：以图景为基础的解释方法对照这个凄凉的背景，「真假老板」显得顺理成章。
24. If promotion was not done good, that may be cold and cheerless, of unmanned make inquires.
    如果推广没做好，那可能是冷冷清清，无人问津的。
25. Something cheerless about the room; a moody and uncheerful person; an uncheerful place.
    这个房间有些令人不快的东西；一个忧郁、不快乐的人；令人郁闷的地方。
26. It was a cold, cheerless, grey sort of morning.
    这是一个阴郁、灰暗而寒冷早晨。
27. A starless sky with a solitary moon would be dull and cheerless, why not let there be a moonlit night resplendent with twinkling stars?
    只有一颗月亮而没有星星点缀的夜空将是单调无趣的，何不让它成为一个月光照耀、星光闪烁的美好夜晚呢？
28. The reason I don't like the third one is I don't like animals on the pictures and I think it looks too cold and cheerless.
    我不喜欢第三个是因为我不喜欢有动物的画而且我认为它看起来太冷清。
29. The room struck cold and cheerless.
    这房间给人以寒冷阴郁的感觉。
30. The land is cheerless and barren, arid as the Sahara.
    这片土地荒凉而贫瘠，干旱得一如撒哈拉。

  gloomy cheerless depressing【导航词义：阴郁的】

  gloomy adj. 阴郁的；阴暗的

〔辨析〕指人因认为情况不会好转而感到沮丧的，也指天气、房间等阴森森的。

  cheerless adj. 沉闷的，阴郁的

〔辨析〕指天气、地方、时期等令人不快乐的。

  depressing adj. 令人沮丧的

〔辨析〕指令人感到非常抑郁及忧愁的。

adj

1. causing sad feelings of gloom and inadequacy
   1. the economic outlook is depressing
   2. something cheerless about the room
   3. a moody and uncheerful person
   4. an uncheerful place

   Synonym:    depressinguncheerful