dreariness

基本解釋

Murk, dreariness in the hushed manor house; flies asleep on the ceiling.
沉寂的大宅裡昏暗、沉悶，蒼蠅都在天花板上睡著了。
From then on the reader, too, is alert for him, doffing his robe to dance, dominating the tiltyard, until in 1509 he throws the windows open and sweeps his father’s miserly dreariness away.
讀者也是從那時(shí)候起對(duì)他心生警覺(jué)，他不穿長(zhǎng)袍跳舞，在騎士比武場(chǎng)上稱霸，直到1509年他洞開(kāi)所有的窗戶，一掃他父親滿是吝嗇的淒涼。
From then on the reader, too, is alert for him, doffing his robe to dance, dominating the tiltyard, until in 1509 he throws the windows open and sweeps his father's miserly dreariness away.
從那時(shí)起，無(wú)論是他甩下長(zhǎng)袍跳舞，還是在持茅騎士比武場(chǎng)獨(dú)領(lǐng)鼇頭，讀者不免對(duì)他畱了神。直到1509年，他猛力推開(kāi)那扇將他父親愛(ài)財(cái)如命的枯燥無(wú)味的生活氣息一掃而盡的窗戶。

She would escape the bare concrete steps, layered with dust, that led up into rooms without windows, the walls painted lurid, glossy colors, as if to make up for the dreariness, the television covered with an embroidered cloth.
NEWYORKER: In Other Rooms, Other Wonders
Stefan is the son of a cast-off diplomat who is sacked from the East German foreign service for a minor misdemeanour just as the Vogel family was about to be posted to New York and escape the dreariness of East Berlin.
ECONOMIST: New fiction