dismally

基本解釋

The family dog began to howlalong dismally.
隨著小男孩的琴聲，家里養(yǎng)的狗也開始高一聲低一聲的叫起來。
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It shows that Iraqis are beginning to believe in their ability to stand on their own feet. And it flashes a ray of light at the end of Iraq’s still dismally dark tunnel.
這預(yù)示著現(xiàn)實可能性的離散范圍在縮小，伊拉克人開始相信他們有能力照顧好自己，如同伊拉克已依舊陰暗的隧道盡頭閃現(xiàn)出一絲希望的光芒。
None of this is likely to be on hand if you cannot even afford to mend the dismally few highways you have, or have no insurance policy against sickness or starva- tion beyond a pig in the back shed.
如果你甚至不能承擔(dān)僅有的幾條高速公路的維修，或者不能為后院蓄養(yǎng)的一頭豬購買保險以對抗疾病或者饑餓，那么所有以上這些你都不可能抓在手上。

Opposition activists complain that internet speeds were brought to dismally slow levels and that they were forced to use proxies to prevent their IP addresses from being detected.

Its average incomes are dismally low, and much of its air and water is heavily polluted.
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In Durban, all efforts by the polite European friends of Yasser Arafat failed dismally.
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