sombre

['sɔmbə(r)]

adj. 昏暗的, 忧郁的, 悲观的
=somber(美）

例句与用法：

A funeral is a sombre occasion.

葬礼是个忧郁的场合。

She looked up staring at the sombre December sky.

她抬起头来，凝望着十二月份阴沉沉的天空。

词形变化：

副词: somberly | 名词: somberness |

sombre

词形变化：

副词: somberly | 名词: somberness |

sombre['sɔmbə]adj.1.■阴沉的，阴暗的；光线昏暗的2.■忧郁的，阴郁的；沮丧的3.■极严肃的；严峻的4.■(颜色)暗淡的，深且单调的

1. dark or dull in colour or tone; gloomy
   （颜色）暗淡的；（语气）低沉的；阴沉的
   the night skies were sombre and starless.
   夜空阴沉，没有星星。
   ■oppressively solemn or sober in mood; grave
   （情绪）忧郁的；严肃的
   he looked at her with a sombre expression.
   他一脸阴沉地看着她。
   

1. mid 18th cent.: from French, based on Latin sub 'under' + umbra 'shade'
   

sombre

形容词 sombre:

grave or even gloomy in character

同义词：somber, melancholy

lacking brightness or color; dull

同义词：drab, sober, somber

sombre

■Asteroid 101, in the distant galaxy of Kraken is a sombre and dangerous place...

101号小行星，传说中是银河边缘一个黯淡的和危险的地方。

■At the World Economic Forum in Davos in January 2001, the mood was sombre.

2001年1月在达沃斯举办的世界经济论坛上，到处弥漫着悲观的情绪。

■The new 2009 edition paints a sombre picture of how the world fared during George Bush's time in office.

2009年版的新报告描述了乔治布什执政时期暗无天日的世界图景。

■Already, at four o'clock, the sombre hue of night was thickening the air.

4点钟时，空中已是一片夜色朦胧。

■Iranian Sombre Tit

n. 伊朗山雀

■Sombre Bulbul

n. 弯嘴锯齿鹎

■Sombre Tit

n. 昏暗山雀

■Sombre Kingfisher

n. 暗色翡翠

■Sombre Hummingbird

n. 暗色蜂鸟

■Sombre Greenbul

n. 淡黑锯齿鹎

■The amounts involved are “impossible to calculate but far from trivial”, says one sombre analyst.

“相关金额很难计算但绝不是小数”某位分析员悲观地说。

■A man overboard! What matters it? The vessel does not halt. The wind blows. That sombre ship has a path which it is forced to pursue. It passes on.

一个人落在海里了!有什么要紧!船是不会停的。风刮着,这条阴暗的船有它非走不可的路程。它过去了。

■A sombre figure was there to meet us.

一个脸色阴沉的人在那儿迎接我们。

■All these groups seem to the passing and thoughtful observer so many sombre hives where buzzing spirits construct in concert all sorts of dark edifices.

一堆堆的人，使这心神不定的观察者联想到许多蜂窠，窠里全是些嗡嗡作响的妖魔，正在共同营造着各式各样的黑暗的楼阁。

■The mood at the annual motor show was sombre, the razzmatazz noticeable only by its absence.

一年一度的汽车展上，气氛惨淡。

■a sombre January day

一月份中一个阴沉的日子.

■The plain but nutritious breakfast was taken by all three in sombre silence.

三个人在悲怆和沉默中用完了简单而营养丰富的饭菜。

■Nature sometimes mingles her effects and her spectacles with our actions with sombre and intelligent appropriateness, as though she desired to make us reflect.

上天有时会在适当时刻使万物的景象和人的行动发生巧妙的配合，从而产生出深刻的效果，仿佛有意要我们多多思考似的。

■a sombre picture of the future of the world

世界未来的惨淡写照.

■A lurid brazen light in the east proclaims the approach of day, while the western landscape is dim and spectral still, and clothed in a sombre Tartarean light, like the shadowy realms.

东方流泻出耀眼的古铜色光辉，宣告着新一天的来临。移目西边，景象黯淡依旧，鬼影幢幢，陷于昏暗的地狱之光,有如阴森异域。

■A 22)lurid brazen light in the east proclaims the approach of day, while the western landscape is dim and 23)spectral still, and clothed in a sombre 24)Tartarean light, like the shadowy realms.

东方露出一种奇幻的古铜色的光彩，表示天快要亮了；可是四面的景物，还是模模糊糊，一片幽暗，鬼影幢幢，疑非人间。

■Ms Denis centers the conflict in human gesture. Each emotion is ritualized and embodied in the sombre drills the men perform.

丹尼斯夫人把矛盾点集中在人类的姿势中。每一种情感都固有化，融入在人们忧郁的行为中。

■What might have appeared contrived and gimmicky in reality matches beautifully the sombre tone of the gathering.

事实上，这可能显得做作、充满骗人意味的手法，却巧妙结合于本剧忧郁的气氛。

■An air show in Beaufort, South Carolina started today with a sombre tribute to a pilot killed Saturday while performing there.The pilot was a member of the Navy's elite Blue Angels.

今日，南卡罗来纳的波弗特上演了一场让人神伤的飞行表演，以祭一位周六在此处表演而身亡的飞行员，他是海军精英“蓝色天使”成员。

■By this time, after long hours of continued reflection upon one subject, a sombre brooding malevolence, a deep-seated desire of revenge, had grown big within his mind.

他一连好几个钟点尽思量着一桩事，如今可有一团郁结不解的恶念，一股根深蒂固的报仇心理，在他心里越胀越大了。

■They are hybrid creatures, neither gay like butterflies nor sombre like their own species.

他们是杂交的产物,既不像蝶类那么艳然,也不像同类那么黯然。

■He returned from his sombre eagle flight into outer darkness.

他在外面黑暗中作了一次老鹰式阴郁的巡视。

■His outlook, habitually sombre, lay under the shadow of deeper cloud.

他对事物的看法本来是消沉的，这时更给笼罩在一层浓厚的乌云下了。

■He repeated Cosette's name for whole nights in the melancholy loquacity of fever, and with the sombre obstinacy of agony.

他常整夜在凄惨的高烧呓语中以及在阴郁的垂死挣扎时喊着珂赛特的名字。

■He indulged in scowls and in abrupt unfoldings of the right hand, as though he were responding to the last counsels of a sombre inward monologue.

他时而蹙起眉头，时而急促地张开右手，仿佛是在对自己心中的密谋深算作最后的问答。

■His sombre view of history explains why he tries to block pork of any kind.

他消极的历史观解释了为什么他会试图阻止任何一种政治恩惠。

■His face made him very sombre.

他的脸色变得十分严峻。

■His coat was a sombre brown.

他的衣服是暗棕色的。

■The expression of his face, up to that time sombre and harsh, bore the imprint of stupefaction, of doubt, of joy, and became extraordinary,he began stammering like a crazy man:--

他的那副一向阴沉严肃的面孔显出惊讶、疑惑和欢乐，变得很奇特，他好象一个疯子，低声慢气地说：

■He would have preferred sitting alone, for he liked a silent, sombre, unsafe solitude.

他真宁可独自坐在那儿，因为他喜欢一种寂静、暗黑而不安全的孤独环境。

■a sombre expression on his face

他脸上忧郁的神情

■A sombre Barack Obama sought yesterday to bring America’s soaring expectations back to earth after meeting a team of economic experts, as the storm clouds of recession gathered.

伴着金融风暴的阴云密布，心情沉重的奥巴马昨天在会见了一组经济专家后让美国人过高的期望值一下跌入了谷底。

■But my real treasure is not that, my dear friend, which awaits me beneath the sombre rocks of Monte Cristo, it is your presence, our living together five or six hours a day, in spite of our jailers;

但我真正的财富并不是那个，我的朋友，并不是在基督山岛阴森的岩石底下等待着我的那些东西，而是和你会面，虽然有狱卒，我们每天仍可以共同度过五六个钟头。

■But the new document paints a more sombre picture.

但是，新文件描绘的前景更为黯淡。

■Don't put anything sombre on her,” he once remarked.

你别把颜色暗淡的衣服给她穿，”他有一次有过这样的议论。

■You have a sombre countenance suddenly

你突然阴暗的面容

■Paul was in a quiet and sombre mood.

保罗心情阴郁，默然无语。

■Oil on canvas Hamon If I Were the Sombre Winter

假如我在阴沉的冬季

■Clara was full of a sombre preconception

克拉拉心中充满了模糊的成见。

■In the imminent peril in which Jean Valjean found himself, this sombre building had about it a solitary and uninhabited look which tempted him.

冉阿让正在走投无路时看见了那所楼房，冷清清，仿佛里面没有人住似的，便想从那里找出路。

■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。

■Creative mentality is the cause of Zhang Ailing’s novels’ “sombre” meaning.

创作心态是张爱玲小说“苍凉”意味形成的原因。

■The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing

十九世纪的服装真是可厌，那么阴郁，多么沉闷。

■Mr Utterson came home to his bachelor house in sombre spirits.

厄塔森先生回到他那单身汉的家里，心情烦躁。

■And only the stigmata could be able to betray the sombre existence of the former days.

只有皮肤上的红斑可以证明过去那些阴沉的存在。