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。
在玛丽·雪莱的《弗兰肯斯坦》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 57Chapter 5 t was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the Iaccomplishment of my toils.
-- The desert moun-tains and dreary glaciers are my refuge.
-- Filled with dreary imaginations, I passed through many beautiful and majestic scenes, but my eyes were fixed and unobserving.
在玛格丽特·米切尔的《乱世佳人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Oh, it was Heavenafter the last dreary year!
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They all had a listless and dreary air of waiting somebody's pleasure, and the most talkative of the ladies had to speak quite rigidly to repress a yawn.
-- So cold, so lonely, so dreary all!
-- It was dark before we got down, and the journey seemed long and dreary to me, who could see little of it inside, and who could not go outside in my disabled state.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- On one side the finest flowers were in full bloom, and on the other everything looked dreary and buried in the snow.
-- As he jumped upon the shore he saw before him a beautiful castle but empty and dreary within, for it was enchanted.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Body number four, under dreary pretences of being droll (when it was very melancholy indeed), made the shallowest pretences of concealing pitfalls of knowledge, into which it was the duty of these babies to be smuggled and inveigled.
-- Long before then his thoughts had gone back to the dreary room above the little shop, and to the shameful figure heavy on the bed, but heavier on his heart.
-- And an infinitely dreary person he appeared to me to be.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《地心游记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Always the same damp and swampy soil; the same dreary uniformity; the same sad and monotonous aspect of scenery.
-- But these forty leagues were of hard, impenetrable granite!All these dreary and miserable reflections passed through my mind, before I attempted to answer my uncle's question.
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The people were as haggard, shape-less, and dreary as the countryside, and as unfriendly.
-- The house seemed as dreary as a disused street.
-- Like a chip on a dreary pond, she felt.
-- His manner was so perfectly easy and good, she stepped over the threshold into the rather dreary little room.
-- But she looked round the clean, tidy, rather dreary little sitting-room with something like dismay.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- There was the dreary Sunday of his childhood, when he sat with his hands before him, scared out of his senses by a horrible tract which commenced business with the poor child by asking him in its title, why he was going to Perdition? a piece of curiosity that he really, in a frock and drawers, was not in a condition to satisfy and which, for the further attraction of his infant mind, had a parenthesis in every other line with some such hiccupping reference as 2 Ep.
-- 'One more remark,' proceeded Flora with unslackened volubility, 'I wish to make, one more explanation I wish to offer, for five days I had a cold in the head from crying which I passed entirely in the back drawing-room there is the back drawing-room still on the first floor and still at the back of the house to confirm my words when that dreary period had passed a lull succeeded years rolled on and Mr F. became acquainted with us at a mutual friend's, he was all attention he called next day he soon began to call three evenings a week and to send in little things for supper it was not love on Mr F.'s part it was adoration, Mr F. proposed with the full approval of Papa and what could I do?'
-- 'My mother lives in a most primitive manner down in that dreary red-brick dungeon at Hampton Court,' said Gowan.
-- He weightily communicated his opinion to their host, that his life must be a very dreary life here in the winter.
-- As he went along, upon a dreary night, the dim streets by which he went, seemed all depositories of oppressive secrets.
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