1.昏暗的;阴沉的;暗淡的dark in colour; dull
dressed in sombre shades of grey and black穿着灰色和黑色的暗色调衣服
2.阴郁的;沮丧的sad and serious
Paul was in a sombre mood .保罗当时心情忧郁。
The year ended on a sombre note.那一年在沉闷的气氛中结束了。
This time he gazed at him with so sombre an air that Thenardier decided that it was "useless" to proceed further.
他这一次看人的神气这样阴沉,以致德纳第认为“不便”再跟上去了。
Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.
罪恶与疾病,使这个世界郁忧阴暗,在他却几乎不存在似的。
As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets.
这六辆车的阴沉的轮子旋转着,似乎在街上的人群中犁出了一条弯弯曲曲的沟畦。
It was one of the many paradoxes in her character, that love of sombre and melancholy melodies, so opposite to her gay, frivolous nature.
这是她性格中自相矛盾的情况之一:她喜欢低沉忧郁的乐曲,这跟她那快乐、轻浮的天性恰巧相反。
It is not too much of a stretch to relate the deflated build-up to the World Cup in England this time to the wider, sombre atmosphere.
不需要太多延伸,就可以把英格兰内的对于这次世界杯之旅的灰心丧气的舆论造势,和更广泛的忧郁气氛联系起来。
But Liu Ping was sombre as he watched them. His home town of Beichuan was wiped out by the shock. Hundreds of children lie among the dead.
看着她们刘平(音译)却高兴不起来。他的家乡北川被地震夷为平地。数百名孩子丧生。
Her young life had been sombre, but she had known nothing of the utmost human needs.
她们年轻的生活是黯淡的,但是她从来不知道什么是人类极端的需要。
WHEN Barack Obama visited Elkhart, Indiana, in early February, a few weeks after his inauguration, it was a sombre affair.
在二月初,当巴拉克奥巴马在他就职典礼后的几个星期,访问了印第安纳洲的埃尔德哈特市时,那是一件沉重的事情。
It was noticed that there was a moment when his countenance became very sombre.
大家注意到他的神色在某一时刻显得非常沉郁。
It had diffused over the earth all the light which tyranny can give a sombre light.
凡是专制所能给予的光明,帝国都在世上普及了,那是一种暗淡的光。
Hawthorne's own life was free enough from tragedy ; yet he saw destiny's sombre operation all about him .
霍索恩一生没有什么恶剧,然而他却看到周围是命运的重重魅影。
The sombre-feathered great bird sleepily merciless between them.
暗色羽毛的巨鸟在这两者之间困倦。
PROMISE, wrote the critic Cyril Connolly, has no more sombre enemy than "the pram in the hall" .
评论家西里尔·康诺利(CyrilConnolly)曾写道,希望的暗敌不过就是那些“大厅里的婴儿车”。
The sun lost its heartening power and the sky became grey and sombre .
太阳失去了它鼓舞人心的力量,天空变成铅灰色,阴沉沉的。
The studio did not even bother making masks of Abe's sombre successor, Yasuo Fukuda.
这家公司甚至没生产安倍晋三的继任者---性格沉闷的福田康夫的面具。
What does that sombre intermingling of bones buried beneath the furrows of Waterloo think of that?
那些七零八落埋在滑铁卢耕地下的可怜枯骨对他的话又作何感想?
There are moments when a woman accepts, like a sombre and resigned goddess, the religion of love.
妇女有时是会象一个悲悯忍从的女神那样,接受爱的礼拜的。
The wehrmacht obeyed, and marched off into the remotest depths of southern Russia on two separate roads to its sombre fate.
德国军队服从命令,分别沿着两条路线进入南俄最遥远的纵深地带,朝着黑暗的命运前进。
When he entered the somewhat sombre hall, the butler told him that they had gone in to lunch.
当他步入光线比较暗淡的门厅时,管家对他说他们已经用餐了。
a city takes on that sombre garb of grey, wrapt in which it goes about its labours during the long winter.
明媚的夏天一过去,城市披上了灰濛濛的外衣。整个长长的冬天,它穿着这件色调灰暗的外衣从事着各种活动。
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