Word · Frequency #25952
bleakly
无望地；绝望地；阴郁地
核心释义
bleakly
- 1.
荒凉地；阴郁地。
In a bleak manner.
荒凉地；阴郁地。；风吹雨打地；荒凉地；阴郁地
用法In use
After the interview, she looked bleakly at the empty waiting room.
用法提示：副词 bleakly 修饰动词 looked，表达‘无望地、阴郁地’。
He bleakly admitted that there was nothing else they could try.
用法提示：bleakly 修饰动词 admitted，传递说话时毫无希望的语气。
She stared bleakly out of the rain-streaked window.
用法提示：bleakly 修饰动词 stared，表示‘阴郁而无望地’。
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。
相关词与表达Connections
搭配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
学习提示Learner notes
记忆技巧Memory Tip
联想：荒凉(bleak)的原野上，一个人绝望地独行——即 bleakly（无望地）。
语境与语域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。
发音与拼写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.