Now there is nothing whatever wrong about being a Dean; nor is there anything wrong about being gloomy. The only question is what dark but sincere motives have made you gloomy. What dark but sincere motives have made you a Dean. Now the address of Dr. Inge which gained him this erroneous title was mostly concerned with a defence of the modern capitalists against the modern strikers, from whose protest he appeared to anticipate appalling results. Now if we look at the facts about that gentleman's depression and also about his Deanery, we shall find a very curious state of things.英文原著 · 《A Miscellany of Men》
"One evening I felt a shudder; the wind had turned an old rusty weathercock, and the creaking sounded like a cry from the house, at the very moment when I was finishing a gloomy drama to account for this monumental embodiment of woe. I returned to my inn, lost in gloomy thoughts. When I had supped, the hostess came into my room with an air of mystery, and said, 'Monsieur, here is Monsieur Regnault.'英文原著 · 《La Grande Breteche》
And Nature drew upon her sinister forces to add to the fear which the youth already felt. Black clouds ob- scured the moon blotting out the soft kindliness of the greening fields and transforming the budding branches of the trees to menacing and gloomy arms which ap- peared to hover with clawlike talons above the dark and forbidding road. The wind soughed with gloomy and in- creasing menace, a sudden light flared across the south- ern sky followed by the reverberation of distant thunder.英文原著 · 《The Oakdale Affair》
Gloomy is the night, gloomy are the ways of Zarathustra. Come, thou cold and stiff companion! I carry thee to the place where I shall bury thee with mine own hands.英文原著 · 《Thus Spake Zarathustra》
Nejdanov was left alone. He continued gazing out into the narrow, gloomy court, unpenetrated by the sun even in summer, and he felt sad and gloomy at heart.英文原著 · 《Virgin Soil》
He came to a dead stop. Grushnitski stood with his head sunk on his breast, embarrassed and gloomy. "Let them be!" he said at length to the cap- tain, who was going to pull my pistol out of the doctor's hands. "You know yourself that they are right."
In vain the captain made various signs to him. Grushnitski would not even look. Meanwhile the doctor had loaded the pistol and handed it to me. On seeing that, the captain spat and stamped his foot. "You are a fool, then, my friend," he said: "a common fool!英文原著 · 《A Hero of Our Time》
I should far prefer to be a maid in a large and pleasant house than work from dawn till dusk in a cramped and gloomy office.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》