Gloom

(noun.) a feeling of melancholy apprehension.

(noun.) a state of partial or total darkness; 'he struck a match to dispel the gloom'.

(noun.) an atmosphere of depression and melancholy; 'gloom pervaded the office'.

伯特伦编辑

• Three yellow squares of light shone above us in the gathering gloom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• When Mr. Hale came in, Margaret went out, oppressed with gloom, and seeing no promise of brightness on any side of the horizon. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The light of high day surrounded me; not, indeed, a warm, summer light, but the leaden gloom of raw and blustering autumn. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• From the first I was tempted to make an exception to this rule of avoidance: the seclusion, the very gloom of the walk attracted me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Far back in the obscuring gloom of a prehistoric antiquity, man wore probably only the hirsute covering which nature gave him. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• A smile broke through the gloom of Lydgate's face. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• For days on end, when the mood was on him, he has been sunk in the deepest gloom. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• He kissed Amy as she started up to meet him, nodded to Fanny, nodded to his father, gloomed on the visitor without further recognition, and sat down. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• At this remark the face of Mr Dorrit gloomed considerably. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Always,' replied Lammle, glooming considerably under his late treatment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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