drearier 沉闷的
令人沮丧的(dreary的比较级)
- By the age of 21, the typical American has spent 10, 000 hours playing computer games, and endured a smaller but much drearier chunk of time listening to sermons about this sinful habit.
一个典型的美国人在其21岁的时候就已经花费了近10000小时用于玩电脑游戏,并坚持着花费相对短暂的时间去接受关于这种不良习惯的令人厌烦的说教。
Dreary \Drear"y\ (dr[=e]r"[y^]), a. [Compar. {Drearier}; superl.
{Dreariest}.] [OE. dreori, dreri, AS. dre['o]rig, sad; akin
to G. traurig, and prob. to AS. dre['o]san to fall, Goth.
driusan. Cf. {Dross}, {Drear}, {Drizzle}, {Drowse}.]
1. Sorrowful; distressful. [Obs.] `` Dreary shrieks.''
--Spenser.
2. Exciting cheerless sensations, feelings, or associations;
comfortless; dismal; gloomy. `` Dreary shades.'' --Dryden.
``The dreary ground.'' --Prior.
Full many a dreary anxious hour. --Keble.
Johnson entered on his vocation in the most dreary
part of that dreary interval which separated two
ages of prosperity. --Macaulay.