dreariness

基本解釋

Murk, dreariness in the hushed manor house; flies asleep on the ceiling.
沉寂的大宅里昏暗、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.
讀者也是從那時候起對他心生警覺，他不穿長袍跳舞，在騎士比武場上稱霸，直到1509年他洞開所有的窗戶，一掃他父親滿是吝嗇的凄涼。
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.
從那時起，無論是他甩下長袍跳舞，還是在持茅騎士比武場獨領鰲頭，讀者不免對他留了神。直到1509年，他猛力推開那扇將他父親愛財如命的枯燥無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