Word · Frequency #25952
bleakly
无望地；绝望地；阴郁地
bleakly
- 1.
In a bleak manner.
荒凉地；阴郁地。
荒凉地；阴郁地。；风吹雨打地；荒凉地；阴郁地
In use
After the interview, she looked bleakly at the empty waiting room.
He bleakly admitted that there was nothing else they could try.
She stared bleakly out of the rain-streaked window.
say bleakly that + clause
bleakly 常与表示说话或目光的动词连用，传达绝望、阴郁的情绪。
The doctor said bleakly that there was no hope.
医生阴郁地说，已经没有任何希望了。
look bleakly at + noun phrase
look bleakly at 比 look at 多了一层‘带着绝望去看’的感情色彩。
She looked bleakly at the ruined house.
她绝望地看着那座被毁坏的房子。
Common mistakes
The company's future looks bleakly.The company's future looks bleak.
looks 在此是系动词，后面需要形容词 bleak 作表语，表示“前景暗淡”；bleakly 是副词，不能作系动词的表语。
He gave a bleakly smile.He gave a bleak smile.
smile 是名词，需要用形容词 bleak 来修饰；bleakly 是副词，只能修饰动词、形容词或副词，不能修饰名词。
She stared bleak at the empty room.She stared bleakly at the empty room.
stared 是实义动词，需要用副词 bleakly 来修饰动作的方式；bleak 是形容词，不能修饰动词。
Connections
Collocations
- stare bleakly into the distance
- 绝望地凝视远方
- After hearing the news, she stared bleakly into the distance.听到这个消息后，她绝望地凝视着远方。
- smile bleakly
- 惨淡地一笑；苦笑
- He smiled bleakly and shook his head.他苦笑了一下，摇了摇头。
- look bleakly at
- 无望地看着
- He looked bleakly at the ruined house.他无望地看着被毁坏的房子。
- say bleakly
- 沮丧地说；悲观地说
- “I have no choice,” she said bleakly.“我别无选择，”她沮丧地说。
- gaze bleakly
- 绝望地注视
- They gazed bleakly at the dark horizon.他们绝望地注视着黑暗的地平线。
Synonyms
Learner notes
Memory Tip
联想：荒凉(bleak)的原野上，一个人绝望地独行——即 bleakly（无望地）。
Context & Register
语域：formal 常见场景：literary writing、formal narrative 该词是副词，意为“无望地；阴郁地”，通常用于书面语或文学性描写，比较正式。在日常口语中较少见，更常说 in a hopeless way 或 hopelessly。
Pronunciation & Spelling
Genuine rhymes: weakly, weekly, meekly, uniquely, and obliquely all end in /-iːkli/ (weakly and weekly are homophones). Beware lookalikes like leakily and sneakily: they are not rhymes because they contain an extra vowel after the /k/.
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.