The war became a prolonged, dismal , fratricidal struggle

这场战争成为一场拖拉的,可怕的,骨肉相残的斗争。

属类：综合句库--

This place was a little sinister, cold, damp. Yet the well must have been a drinking-place for hundreds of years. Now no more. Its tiny cleared space was lush and cold and dismal .

这地方阴森得有些不祥的样子,冷而且潮湿。可是,几个世界以来,这井一定曾经是人民饮水的地方,现在再也没有人到这里来饮水了。周围的小空地是油绿的,又冷又凄惨。

属类：文学表达-英语名著-

This personage prefigured and represented in his aspect the whole dismal severity of the Puritanic code of law, which it was his business to administer in its final and closest application to the offender.

这个角色的尊容便是清教徒法典全部冷酷无情的象征和代表,对触犯法律的人最终和最直接执法则是他的差事。

属类：文学表达-英语名著-

This Malthusian and Ricardian model of growth and its limits led carlyle to characterize economics as the "dismal science."

这个马尔萨斯和李嘉图增长模型及其局限性使得卡莱尔把经济学标为“悲观的科学”。

属类：综合句库--

This is a piece of dismal news.

这是条令人沮丧的消息。

属类：综合句库--

It was a very dubious-looking, nay, a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless

这是一个非常朦胧的,简直是非常黯黑而阴郁的夜晚,寒冷彻骨,毫无生趣。

属类：综合句库--

It was a very dubious-looking, nay a very dark and dismal night, bitingly cold and cheerless

这是一个非常朦胧的、且非常黑暗而阴沉的夜晚,天气冷彻肌肤,了无生趣。

属类：综合句库--

It was a dismal winter night. A pale moon hung low in the sky.

这是一个阴郁的冬夜,苍白的月亮挂在天边。

属类：学习英语-语法例句-

The news was as dismal as ever.

这消息还是叫人提不起劲来.

属类：综合句库-典型例句-

Thus, he was thunderstruck when he heard the truth, and received a dismal confession from Pen

这样,他一知道事实真相,听到潘愁眉苦脸的向他说明一切之后,真是大吃一惊。

属类：综合句库--

Such scenes had once appeared not otherwise than happy, but now, as viewed through the dismal medium of her subsequent life, they classed themselves among her ugliest remembrances.

这种情景也曾经作为幸福而出现过;但如今,透过她随之而来的生活的悲惨的折射,只能归类于她回忆中最不堪入目的部分了。

属类：文学表达-英语名著-

It does, after all, keep them from focusing on the scant musical offerings of the past year a dismal period in terms of new creative genius, or even mildly original schlock

这种情况确实使他们无法认真关注过去一年中本来场次就很少的音乐演出,这一年是暗淡的一年,既没有出现新的、有创造力的天才,甚至连差强人意、稍微有点独创性的音乐次品都没有。

属类：综合句库--

1:Students of management theory have long debated what constitutes the worst kind of book—the CEO autobiogaphy or the management tome that promises to reveal the secrets of business in words of one syllable.[...]112:But in “Management in 10 Words” Sir Terry Leahy, a former boss of Tesco, has performed a remarkable act of alchemy: combining two dismal forms to produce an excellent book—a veritable management page-turner that has interesting things to say about everything from the evolution of British society to the art of transforming huge organisations.

1:管理学理论学界的学者们一直在对什么造就了最烂的那类管理学书籍的问题争论不休-首席执行官们的自传亦或是那些宣称能用寥寥数语揭露商界秘诀的。[...]112:不过，在《管理真言》一书中，乐购前首席执行官特里·利亚爵士如炼金术师一般令人惊叹地将两种沉闷的形式融合成一本优秀的书-一部对从英国社会的演进到大型组织重整中的艺术等有趣之事无所不谈的著作。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-听君一席话 胜读十年书

1: Mr Evans's title reminds the reader that the Algerian conflict was officially only a “police operation”. 2: Recognition that it was a full-scale war, France's worst conflict since the second world war, came only with a vote by the National Assembly in 1999, some 37 years after Algeria's independence. 3: But the thoroughness of this book is that it traces the origins of the war all the way back to the French invasion of 1830. [...]114: What followed were dismal decades of discrimination, poverty and famine.

1:伊凡斯的头衔提醒读者，阿尔及利亚的争端官方来说只是一次“警务行动”。2:一直到阿尔及利亚独立37年之后，才随着1999年国民大会的投票承认“这是一场彻底的战争、法国自从二战以来最严重的一次冲突”。3:但这本书的透彻之处在于，它将战争的根源一路追溯到了1830年的法国入侵。[...]114:随之而来的是充斥着种族歧视、贫穷和饥荒的黑暗的数十年。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-冠以他名的战争

1:In telling Mr Elmore's story, Mr Bonner deftly weaves in a brief history of American capital punishment and its discontents.2:Following a brief moratorium in 1972, when the Supreme Court ruled that the death penalty's application violated the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment, it was reinstated in 38 states from 1976.3:By 2010, 1,226 more executions had taken place, 1,010 of them in the South.4:Most of these executed inmates have been black; a vast majority of the victims in capital cases were white.5:But Mr Bonner's book is not a treatise against the death penalty.[...]116:Rather, it is a dismal look at what happens in America's justice system when justice is absent.

1:在讲述Elmore的故事的时候，奥·邦纳（Mr Bonner）很快的就编织出了关于美国死刑刑罚的简洁历史，并表示不满。2:随后就是1972年的一个简洁的禁令在那时，这最高法院裁定这死刑刑法的运用违反了第八修正案禁止“残忍与异常的刑罚”条款，到了1976年在38个州才恢复使用。3:截止2010年，执行了1226多次死刑的裁决，其中南方占到1010例。4:大部分的死囚犯是黑人，而大多数的受害者是资本阶级白人。5:但是Bonner的书不是一本反对死刑的论述。[...]116:然而，它是对美国的司法系统当公正不在时所发生的事的一点心痛的看法。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-美国的死刑

However, they are dismal at helping consumers lose weight.

但是他们无法帮助消费者战胜肥胖本身，减少体重。

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-减肥商品 点肥成金不现实

Business The economics of Groupon The dismal scoop on Groupon

商业 团购网的经济学 团购网站惨淡的独家新闻

属类：时事政治-经济学人双语版-团购网站惨淡的独家新闻

The overall economic outlook remains quite dismal for the first half of 2009, and only a modest recovery is expected in the second half.

2009年上半年整体经济前景仍相当黯淡，下半年也仅会温和回升。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

Fifty years ago, when South Korea's adult literacy rate was already 71%, Egypt's trailed at a dismal 25%.

50年前，韩国的成人受教育比例已经是71%，而埃及远远落后，只有25%，低得令人震惊。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

But in practice, people make dismal financial decision for a host of reasons, Dholakia explained, including:

Dholaka解释说，在现实生活中，人们做出错误的金融决策有多方面原因，其中包括：

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The advance GDP estimate will be released on April 28th, and everyone expects a dismal figure.

GDP先期估计将于4月28日公布，但所有人都预计会是一个令人压抑的数字。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

IE 9, despite my hopes that it would show better, came in, a dismal last with a mark of only 1, 185. 8-ms (milliseconds).

IE9，虽然我希望它能表现的好一些，结果却是，令人郁闷的1185.8毫秒的得分。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The White House's response to Hurricane Katrina was dismal .

白宫在卡特里娜飓风到来时的反应叫人心寒不已。

属类：英汉句库-www.ecocn.org-

the president, who has dismal approval ratings, spoke to the delegates via a satellite link instead.

布什通过卫星电视向代表们发表了演讲。目前，布什总统的民意支持率呈现低迷状态。

属类：英汉句库-blog.hjenglish.com-

Adult anaplastic astrocytomas comprise a small subset of intramedullary spinal cord tumors and carry a dismal prognosis.

成人脊髓内恶性星状细胞瘤为一少见的脊髓肿瘤。

属类：中国大陆-www.ceps.com.tw-

Catherine's days, at this time, were dismal , and the weight of some of her hours was almost more than she could bear.

此刻凯瑟琳的日子充满了痛苦，有的时候沉重的负担压得她无法忍受。

属类：综合句库--

But 2011 was such a dismal year for European equities that many investors must hope that the bad news is already in the price.

但对于欧洲股权而言2011年是如此惨淡的一年，许多投资者必须期望坏消息已经包括在价格中了。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

As dismal as those outcomes, the numbers were still better than for the group that didn't attend preschool.

但很可悲的是，即使是这样的数据仍就比那些不上学前班的孩子好很多。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-

The declining outlook comes after third-quarter U. S. Department of Commerce data showed dismal October growth online.

但美国商业部公布的第三季度数据表明，10月份网上零售业务增长惨淡，直接打击了上述预期。

属类：英汉句库-cn.reuters.com-

But many readers will question the risk that Ward took by leading them on such a contrived course to such a dismal destination.

但是，许多读者会质疑沃德为什么冒此风险带领他们踏上如此一个人为设计的路程去往一个如此令人沮丧的归宿。

属类：英汉句库-article.yeeyan.org-