The singer gave a dismal performance of some old songs.
那歌手唱了幾首老歌，唱得不怎么樣。
牛津詞典
Their recent attempt to increase sales has been a dismal failure .
他們最近努力想提高銷售量，全是白費勁。
牛津詞典
I tried not to laugh but failed dismally (= was completely unsuccessful) .
我想盡量忍著不笑，但根本忍不住。
牛津詞典
dismal conditions/surroundings/weather
悲慘的狀況；凄涼的環(huán)境；陰沉的天氣
牛津詞典
...Israel's dismal record in the Olympics...
以色列在奧運會上讓人沮喪的記錄
My prospects of returning to a suitable job are dismal...
我重新找到一個合適的工作崗位的希望很渺茫。
The main part of the hospital is pretty dismal but the children's ward is really lively.
醫(yī)院的主體部分死氣沉沉，但是兒科病房卻充滿生氣。
...a dark dismal day with rain falling steadily...
天空昏暗、陰雨綿綿的一天
Commutes are more dismal than ever.
通勤者也比以往任何時候更沮喪.
期刊摘選
Then came night - dark, dismal, silent night.
夜已來臨,這是黑暗, 凄涼, 沉寂的一夜.
辭典例句
New research may brighten the currently dismal outlook for elderly patients acute myeloid leukemia ( AML ).
新的研究也許會為目前老年 AML 較為晦暗的治療現(xiàn)狀帶來希望.
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Frustrated, and with my player ranking at a dismal 430 th out of 450, I give up.
最后看著我的排名停滯在430名(共有450名玩家), 我還是灰溜溜地放棄了.
期刊摘選
As the dismal TV ratings suggest, it was also difficult to watch.
正如低的可憐的電視收視率向我們暗示的那樣, 它(比賽)實在槽糕透了.
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The dismal wind was muttering round the house.
屋外陰風(fēng)颯颯.
辭典例句
These are dismal figures.
這些數(shù)字令人沮喪.
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There never was such a dreary, dismal scene as the formerly cheerful house presented!
這所以前是很歡樂的房子從來沒有呈現(xiàn)過這么一幅荒涼陰郁的景象.
辭典例句
His reflections as he made his toilette were rather dismal.
在他梳裝打扮的時候,他頭腦里思緒萬千,并不愉快.
辭典例句
The house is so antique and dismal that it depresses me dreadfully.
那所房子又古老,又陰慘慘的;我在那兒就悶得要死.
辭典例句
The confusion caused by the dismal economy led to protests.
經(jīng)濟低迷引起的混亂導(dǎo)致了多起抗議.
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That is a rather dismal melody.
那是一支相當(dāng)憂郁的歌曲.
《簡明英漢詞典》
But the past year has been especially dismal.
但是過去的一年特別艱難.
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Even the most dismal and unstable circumstances can become something to be clung to.
即使最凄慘和不穩(wěn)定的情況依然可以成為值得堅持的情況.
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At this dismal news, I twisted the only button on my waistcoat round and round.
一聽到這個掃興的消息, 急得我扭著背心上僅剩的那一顆鈕扣.
辭典例句
It was a very dubious - looking , nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless.
這是一個非常朦朧的 、 且非常黑暗而陰沉的夜晚, 天氣冷徹肌膚,了無生趣.
辭典例句
Deng was no student of the dismal science.
鄧小平是沒有學(xué)生的沉悶的科學(xué).
期刊摘選
That dismal performance risks ruining all the hard work Ancelotti has put into this campaign.
那次悲慘的演出已經(jīng)毀掉了安切洛蒂整個賽季的辛勤勞動.
期刊摘選
He felt dismal after reading a piece of bad news in the newspaper.
他讀了報上的一條不好的消息后心情憂郁.
《現(xiàn)代英漢綜合大詞典》
Your prospects would be almost as dismal if arguments were even just competitions-like, say, tennis games.
2020年考研真題（英語一）翻譯 Section Ⅲ"drove through dingy streets"
"the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens
"drab old buildings"
"a dreary mining town"
"gloomy tenements"
"sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams
"a blue day"
"the dark days of the war"
"a week of rainy depressing weather"
"a disconsolate winter landscape"
"the first dismal dispiriting days of November"
"a dark gloomy day"
"grim rainy weather"
