dismal是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为adj. 阴郁的， 沉闷的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《人魔岛》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Then a yelling cry nearer, and another dismal gap of silence.
在华盛顿·欧文的《睡谷的传说》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many dismal tales were told about funeral trains, and mourning cries and wailings heard and seen about the great tree where the unfortunate Major Andre was taken, and which stood in the neighborhood.
-- The hour was as dismal as himself.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《老古玩店》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- With all these personal advantages (to which may be added a strong savour of tobacco-smoke, and a prevailing greasiness of appearance) Mr Swiveller leant back in his chair with his eyes fixed on the ceiling, and occasionally pitching his voice to the needful key, obliged the company with a few bars of an intensely dismal air, and then, in the middle of a note, relapsed into his former silence.
-- Before he had got through the first two or three lines he began to open his eyes very wide and to frown most horribly, the next two or three caused him to scratch his head in an uncommonly vicious manner, and when he came to the conclusion he gave a long dismal whistle indicative of surprise and dismay.
-- And now Mr Thomas Codlin, the misanthrope, after blowing away at the Pan's pipes until he was intensely wretched, took his station on one side of the checked drapery which concealed the mover of the figures, and putting his hands in his pockets prepared to reply to all questions and remarks of Punch, and to make a dismal feint of being his most intimate private friend, of believing in him to the fullest and most unlimited extent, of knowing that he enjoyed day and night a merry and glorious existence in that temple, and that he was at all times and under every circumstance the same intelligent and joyful person that the spectators then beheld him.
-- These were no other than four very dismal dogs, who came pattering in one after the other, headed by an old bandy dog of particularly mournful aspect, who, stopping when the last of his followers had got as far as the door, erected himself upon his hind legs and looked round at his companions, who immediately stood upon their hind legs, in a grave and melancholy row.
-- However, she expressed herself very sorry to hear such a dismal account of her state of health, and shortly afterwards sat down with her grandfather and Mrs Jarley to breakfast.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《时间机器》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The sound of its voice was so dismal that I shivered and seated myself more firmly upon the machine.
在刘易斯·卡罗尔的《爱丽丝漫游镜中世界》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- the Oysters cried,Turning a little blue,"After such kindness, that would beA dismal thing to do!
在艾米利·勃朗特的《呼啸山庄》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us.
-- he was saying when I entered: 'you look as dismal as a drowned whelp.
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