dreariness

基本解释

Murk, dreariness in the hushed manor house; flies asleep on the ceiling.
沉寂的大宅里昏暗、沉闷，苍蝇都在天花板上睡着了。
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.
读者也是从那时候起对他心生警觉，他不穿长袍跳舞，在骑士比武场上称霸，直到1509年他洞开所有的窗户，一扫他父亲满是吝啬的凄凉。
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.
从那时起，无论是他甩下长袍跳舞，还是在持茅骑士比武场独领鳌头，读者不免对他留了神。直到1509年，他猛力推开那扇将他父亲爱财如命的枯燥无味的生活气息一扫而尽的窗户。

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