Sombre

(a.) Dull; dusky; somewhat dark; gloomy; as, a somber forest; a somber house.

(a.) Melancholy; sad; grave; depressing; as, a somber person; somber reflections.

(v. t.) To make somber, or dark; to make shady.

(n.) Gloom; obscurity; duskiness; somberness.

手打:尤赖亚

• The pines are not tall or luxuriant, but they are sombre, and add an air of severity to the scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• Her face had grown as sombre as a tragic mask. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• He would have preferred sitting alone; for he liked a silent, sombre, unsafe solitude. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was a sombre snowy afternoon, and the gas-lamps were lit in the big reverberating station. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Far away up the sombre valley of heath, and to the right of Rainbarrow, could indeed be seen the light, small, but steady and persistent as before. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• But never mind what we laughed at, or how absurd our conversation, so that poor dear Lord Byron got rid of his sombre melancholy. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• His dress was quiet and sombre--a black frock-coat, dark trousers, and a touch of color about his necktie. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• It was a sad and sombre party that sat at the feast of welcome in the great dining hall of the palace of the Prince of Helium that day. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• She followed Mr. Helstone reluctantly through that porch into the sombre old vestibule beyond. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• But Thomasin's former brightness made shadow of that which in a sombre atmosphere was light itself. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Very sombre it was--long, vast, and dark; one latticed window lit it but dimly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• You will not mind this sombre light, said Dorothea, standing in the middle of the room. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• He chuckled to himself as he spoke, his eyes twinkled, and he seemed a different man to the sombre thinker of the previous night. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I remember it as a kind of half chaise-cart, half pianoforte-van, painted of a sombre colour, and drawn by a black horse with a long tail. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Why are you so very shy, and so very sombre? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The sadness of the scene imparted a sombre tinge to the feelings of Mr. Winkle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Around and around the house the leaves fall thick, but never fast, for they come circling down with a dead lightness that is sombre and slow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• As the sombre wheels of the six carts go round, they seem to plough up a long crooked furrow among the populace in the streets. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• And now--solemn and sombre as to their colour, though bland enough as to their faces--appeared at the dining-room door the three rectors. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was full of the moon, which looked solemnly and mildly down on Caroline from beneath that sombre canopy. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It was a sombre day, and drops of chill rain fell at intervals. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• They pass into a sombre breakfast-room on the ground floor, lighted in the day by two deep windows. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Twilight had passed into night, and the lamps were lit in the streets ere I issued from that sombre church. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• And now, no more sombre thoughts: chase dull care away, Janet. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• He was dressed in a sombre yet rich style, in black frock-coat, shining hat, neat brown gaiters, and well-cut pearl-grey trousers. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• The light was more and more sombre, but there came a flash of lightning which made them start and look at each other, and then smile. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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