dreary是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 沉闷的, 阴沉的，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。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It was old enough now, and dreary enough, for nobody lived in it but Scrooge, the other rooms being all let out as offices.
-- Nor was it more retentive of its ancient state, within; for enter-ing the dreary hall, and glancing through the open doors of many rooms, they found them poorly furnished, cold, and vast.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Many a night he vaguely and unhappily wandered there, when wine had brought no transitory glad-ness to him; many a dreary daybreak revealed his solitary figure lingering there, and still lingering there when the first beams of the sun brought into strong relief, removed beau-ties of architecture in spires of churches and lofty buildings, as perhaps the quiet time brought some sense of better things, else forgotten and unattainable, into his mind.
-- After long and lonely spurring over dreary roads, they would come to a cluster of poor cottages, not steeped in darkness, but all glittering with lights, and would find the people, in a ghostly man-ner in the dead of the night, circling hand in hand round a shrivelled tree of Liberty, or all drawn up together singing a Liberty song.
-- With this on his mind, which was enough to carry into a dreary prison courtyard, he arrived at the prison of La Force.
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, how dark and com-fortless it was in the dreary world!
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "Ah, how dreary it all was!"
-- But it seemed to me sort of dreary there, Darya Alexandrovna.
-- It was the very dullest autumn weather, which is so dreary in the country, and so, preparing himself for a struggle, Vronsky, with a hard and cold expression, informed Anna of his departure as he had never spoken to her before.
-- They don't know how dreary it is, how low....
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Priests were passing in processions, beating their dreary tambourines; police and custom-house officers with pointed hats encrusted with lac and carrying two sabres hung to their waists; soldiers, clad in blue cotton with white stripes, and bearing guns; the Mikado's guards, enveloped in silken doubles, hauberks and coats of mail; and numbers of military folk of all ranks for the military profession is as much respected in Japan as it is despised in China went hither and thither in groups and pairs.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- From the alley behind City Hall they could peer in and see him, dreary and deserted.
-- She sat quiet (a frail child, only up to one's shoulder, not nine minutes older than at marriage, nine years before), or she napped inoffensively, in the long living-room of their flat, while he worked over his dreary digit-infested books till one, till two, and she politely awoke to let him worry at her, "But look here now, I've got to keep up my research at the same time.
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《罪与罚》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Part VI612 Crime and PunishmentChapter I strange period began for Raskolnikov: it was as though A a fog had fallen upon him and wrapped him in a dreary solitude from which there was no escape.
-- Then he sank into dreary musing again.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The blossom is blighted, the leaf iswithered, the God of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and-and in short you are for ever floored.
-- The Orfling and I stood looking vacantly at each other in themiddle of the road, and then shook hands and said good-bye; shegoing back, I suppose, to St. Luke's workhouse, as I went to beginmy dreary day at Murdstone and Grinby's.
-- My roomswere engaged for twelve months certain: and though I still foundthem dreary of an evening, and the evenings long, I could settledown into a state of equable low spirits, and resign myself tocoffee; which I seem, on looking back, to have taken by the gallonat about this period of my existence.
-- All I have to say on that score is, that the cloud haspassed from the dreary scene, and the God of Day is once morehigh upon the mountain tops.
-- 'What I have come down to be, since I first saw you in this house!Iwas on my downward way then, but the dreary, dreary road Ihave traversed since!Weak indulgence has ruined me.
在托马斯·哈代的《远离尘嚣》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The mouldy pile was dreary in winter-time before the candles were lighted and the shutters closed; the atmosphere of the place seemed as old as the walls; every nook behind the furniture had a temperature of its own, for the fire was not kindled in this part of the house early in the day; and Bathsheba's new piano, which was an old one in other annals, looked particularly sloping and out of level on the warped floor before night threw a shade over its less prominent angles and hid the unpleasantness.
-- "I mean, you know, I am sorry you thought I ""I have always this dreary pleasure in thinking over those past times with you that I was something to you before he was anything, and that you belonged almost to me.
在巴尔扎克的《高老头》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The dreary surroundings were reflected in the costumes of the inmates of the house; all were alike threadbare.
-- For her, the little garden, which silence, and cold, and rain, and drought combined to make as dreary as an Asian _steppe_, was a pleasant shaded nook; the gaunt yellow house, the musty odors of a back shop had charms for her, and for her alone.
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