The mood of the music was almost funereal. 音乐的调子几乎像哀乐。
It was a large, dark room, furnished in a funereal manner with black horsehair, and loaded with heavy dark tables. 那是一间阴暗的大屋,像丧礼一样摆着黑色马毛呢面的家具和沉重的黑色桌子。
funereal
[ adj ] suited to or suggestive of a grave or burial <adj.all> funereal gloomhollow sepulchral tones
Funereal \Fu*ne"re*al\, a. [L. funereus, fr. fentus a funeral.] Suiting a funeral; pertaining to burial; solemn; as, at a funereal pace. Hence: Dark; dismal; mournful. --Jer. Taylor.
What seem to us but sad funereal tapers May be heaven's distant lamps. --Longfellow. -- {Fu*ne"re*al*ly}, adv.
The mood is sombre, almost funereal. On the outskirts of the village, other peasants look, with a sense of immense frustration, at the bare 21-acre holding that should have yielded Mr Ahmed a valuable cotton crop.
Even the vocabulary of viager sales reflects the funereal tone of the transaction.