1.the future looked black; prospects were bleak; Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult- J.M.Synge; took a dim view of things.
前途看起来黯淡；前途无望；安瑞岛上的生活总是黯淡、艰苦——J·M·辛格；对事物抱着悲观的看法。
2.Besides, it also shows that Dickens in his Bleak House not only criticizes the social evils and inequality of the time, but also explores the moral culture of the society.
同时，《荒凉山庄》还展现了狄更斯小说艺术创作的一大特点：狄更斯在小说中不仅批判了他所生活的那个社会之黑暗及阶级的不平等，也在评述着那个社会的道德文化生活。
3.One day, I saw a goshawk spiraling in the sky above, I looked at hares and chickens came out from time to time in brushwood under the hill, suddenly I felt bleak never felt before, will my youth run out little by little in this kind of condition?
那天看着不断在头上盘旋着的苍鹰、看着山下草丛中时尔闪现的野兔和山鸡，突然感到一种从未有过的凄凉，我的青春年华难道就在这样的生活中一点点的流逝吗？
4.After the crash of his business, the future was extremely bleak; nevertheless, he looked it in the face.
他的生意失败后，前景十分暗淡，然而他能面对现实。
5.What might be the significance of the name "Miss Barbary" in Bleak House?
《荒凉山庄》中的“巴巴利小姐”这个名字涵义可能为何?
6.The future of this firm will be very bleak indeed if we keep losing money.
要是我们继续亏本的话，这家公司的前途会非常黯淡。
7.Housing of bleak utilitarianism.
苍白的功利主义的装饰
8.Yet many people, thinking of the distant continent only as a bleak, rocky, cold and inhospitable land mass, may wonder: Why all the fuss? Why protect something so unpromising?
至今仍有很多人认为这块遥远的大陆仅仅是一大片荒凉、寒冷、岩石林立、根本无法居住的土地。他们可能很奇怪：为什么如此小题大做?为什么要保护这样一块毫无前途的土地?
9.But Nurse Austen was not too busy to acknowledge with a long, friendly letter every gift of food or clothing received for distribution to the natives in that bleak and barren outpost of the north.
可是，她再忙也要写一封封长长的、亲切的信，感谢为这个地处北澳大利亚边区荒凉、贫困的村落寄来食品和衣服的每一位捐助者。
10.In particular, the outlook for the Palestinians would be less bleak if sundry outsiders did not periodically hijack their cause to mobilise Muslim emotions against Israel, America or both.
尤其是，如果没有各种局外势力不断地挑起穆斯林对以色列或美国，甚至两者同时的敌对情绪，巴勒斯坦的前景将会更乐观。
