The report paints an unnecessarily bleak picture of the town.

这份报道把这个镇子过于惨淡。

Two weeks in hospital seems a bleak prospect.

住院两周看来没有什么希望。

They showed me into a bleak waiting room.

他们引我来到一间阴冷会客室。

The company's prospects look pretty bleak.

这家公司前景异常淡。

I glimpsed a bleak future.

我隐约感到前途黯淡。

It is bleak reality of a stalled car and spinning wheels imping on the neat time schedule of our self-importance.

它是陷住汽车，使车轮打滑，将我们自以为周全德计划搅乱冷冰冰现实。

And this was the fifties, the grayest, bleakest, most blinkered and culturally repressive period in the entire second half of the twentieth century, especially in small-town America.

再说，那可是五十年代啊。在整个二十世纪后半期，这是最阴郁，最黯淡，最盲目时期，也是文化上最压抑时期。美国小镇上生活更是如此。