bleak
英 [bliːk]
美[blik]
	    - adj. 阴冷的;荒凉的,无遮蔽的;黯淡的,无希望的;冷酷的;单调的
 
英英释意
- 1. offering little or no hope;
 - "the future looked black"
 - "prospects were bleak"
 - "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge
 - "took a dim view of things"
 
- 2. providing no shelter or sustenance;
 - "bare rocky hills"
 - "barren lands"
 - "the bleak treeless regions of the high Andes"
 - "the desolate surface of the moon"
 - "a stark landscape"
 
- 3. unpleasantly cold and damp;
 - "bleak winds of the North Atlantic"