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dreary ['drɪɚrɪ]

a. 沉闷的

It is very dreary to do the same job everyday.
每天都做同样工作是很单调的。
I'm tired of his dreary speech.
我厌倦了他的枯燥无味的演说。
It breads my heart to think of all the money we spent on our son's education and all he wants to do is work in a dreary factory.
想到我们把所有的钱都花在儿子的教育上，而他却所想去一家沉闷的工厂工作，我感到很伤心。

dreary
drearier, dreariest

[ adj ]

lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

<adj.all>

her drab personality

life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas

a series of dreary dinner parties

causing dejection

<adj.all>

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

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.

For those 33 months of sometimes perilous, sometimes comfortable, sometimes dreary service, I have been amply rewarded.
Isolated and dreary all winter long, Leh springs to life in summer when vegetables ripen in the fields and tourists swarm in from 11,500 feet below, filling up 80 hotels and guest houses in the world's highest desert.
"They are always with me: the unbounded waiting, the odor of blood on steel," Marie sings, in an aria so long and dreary Madame Defarge would have had time to finish knitting several rows and still been able to skewer her on a needle.
A typical Kente venue earlier this year was the dreary township of Tembisa.
The decision is the latest by Aetna to improve dreary financial results in personal insurance lines nationwide.
Even so, things aren't yet as bad as the dreary Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.
A round of applause for the only design element - a silhouette of the New York skyline - is a sure sign that we are in starvation corner, where the rule is black drapes and dreary outfits. The evening was not a happy one.
Although he now enjoys a comfortable life because of his business success, Fuller said his ideas are largely a result of working for himself and avoiding a dreary 9-to-5 job.
The decision is the latest move by Aetna to improve dreary financial results in personal insurance lines nationwide.
By the time this dreary reality sank in, they'd married and had a child.
Lukyanov joked that some dreary weather during Gorbachev's trip to the United States 12 days for a superpower summit ago might be to blame for his "little cold." Moscow also has been chilly and rainy for more than a week.
And how has this dreary and grossly inefficient situation evolved?
It includes imperial-style buildings with red pillars and slanted tiled roofs, as well as blocks of dank and dreary dormitories where each room houses about six students.
The incident, which occurred Tuesday and was reported Thursday by the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets, highlights the dreary outlook for Soviet shoppers who search the city for items such as sugar, detergent, men's socks and chocolate.
The polls opened under dreary skies with snow and light rain. About 60 million people were eligible to choose the government for the newly united nation, but initial reports said turnout was low.
Cheltenham, where Jones grew up, is not a "dreary" English city but a lovely spa town nestled at the edge of the Cotswolds.
Much of the dreary weather was ahead of an upper level area of low pressure that extended from the southern Rockies into the central Plains.
I would buy tickets for that lottery as well, and so - I suspect - would you. Who cares what dreary Allison Pearson thinks?
Pruning wouldn't hurt his often entertaining adaptation of Nikolai Gogol's 1842 novel about an archswindler who briefly brightens a dreary provincial town with his unusual business proposition.
We have become accustomed to use of our resources for wants rather than dreary needs.
Anyone can raise it from seed as easily as dreary old marigolds. Its name is Sentimental Blue, which sounds wonderfully soft-hearted.
A case in point is "The Aunts," Gary Bonasorte's dreary domestic drama that opened Wednesday at off-Broadway's 47th Street Theater with three accomplished actresses _ Mia Dillon, Bethel Leslie and Ann Wedgeworth _ in the leading roles.
At the same time, about 25% of Wendy's franchisees are behind in their royalty payments, and some are skeptical of the SuperBar idea given the dreary reaction to Wendy's breakfast menu in 1985.
Many rank-and-file fashion journalists dress in a dreary and undecorative, sexless manner.
He's found himself in a dreary new world (but depicted with sly humor) where a swelling of musical passion is interrupted by a chorus of digital watches bleeping that it's time for a the break required by union rules.
But apart from that, there are a lot of dreary battle scenes and there is not much to be said for the bulk of the Romans.
His last production at the Metropolitan Opera was that dreary "Carmen" that had his wife Maria Ewing galumphing through sets that were virtually identical to his earlier Glyndebourne productions, only several sizes larger.
"I'd like to think that out of this dreary performance by Saddam Hussein there could be now an opportunity for peace all through the Middle East," Bush said.
Debra Diamond is pulling ahead of the other growth-stock fund managers by investing in the dull and the dreary.
"Mornings are dreary at home," she says.

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