The city might be grim at first, but there is a vibrancy and excitement.
这个城市也许一开始沉闷，但它有一种活力和激情。
A grim and unsightly picture met his eye.
他眼前出现了一幅可怕而难看的画面。
It stood on the edge of a cliff, grim and defiant, seemingly clinging to rock.
它孤逸地耸立在悬崖边上，冷酷又不容挑衅，似乎正抓紧了那岩石。
General retailers, on the front line of the consumer downturn, report continued weak trading, although the outlook on the High Street is not as grim as a few months back.
身处市场最前沿的普通零售商对消费下滑感同身受，他们报怨说生意持续低迷，尽管对繁华商业区生意的预期比几个月前乐观多了。
They painted a grim picture of growing crime.
他们描绘了一个犯罪增长的严酷局面。
Washington would do well to take a deep breath before reacting to the grim numbers.
在对这些严峻的数字做出反应之前，华盛顿最好深吸一口气。
The parks and squares looked grim under a mantle of soot and ash.
在一层烟尘的笼罩下，这些公园和广场显得阴沉沉的。
Journalists paint a grim picture of conditions in the camps.
记者描绘了营里的恶劣条件。
All were detained in the Salem Gaol, a grim edifice of granite blocks, iron-barred windows and brick-walled cells.
所有人都被拘禁在萨勒姆监狱中，这是一座用花岗岩砌成、装有铁栅栏窗户和砖墙砌成的牢房构成的可怕建筑。
Western Europe and eastern America may then have been going through a grim, cold winter but other areas - including Asia and western America - were experiencing unexpectedly hot weather.
欧洲西部和美国东部也许当时正在经历严峻而寒冷的冬季，但是其它地区——其中包括亚洲和美国西部——却正体验着出乎意料的炎热天气。
When asked to imagine the Earth in 2040, many scientists describe a grim scenario, a landscape so bare and dry, it's almost uninhabitable.
当被问及2040年地球将会是什么样子的时候，许多科学家会把情况描述的异常严峻、一幅光秃又干旱的景色，看起来几乎不适合居住了。
His cardiologist offered a grim diagnosis.
心脏病医生做出一项严峻的病情诊断。
SPAIN’S banks face a grim 2010.
西班牙的银行将面对一个严酷的2010年。
Folklore says villagers in Llangernyw, midway between Abergele and Llanrwst, learn their grim fate from a supernatural being under the boughs of a 3,000-year-old yew tree.
民间传说欧兰格纳的村民从一棵三千岁的紫杉树的主枝下的一个超自然生物那儿得知自己的残酷命运。
Being drunk became for Crane a kind of grim literalization of the freedom
感觉这里的grim该当“残酷的”讲，也就是说这是对自由的一种残酷的字面释义，这里的literalization该当“字面释义”讲。
It wants to turn the story of a grim, inescapable quagmire into one of erratic but irreversible progress towards a resolution acceptable to all.
它想把这个故事从一个糟糕、不可逃脱的困局变成一个方向不定但却朝着所有人都能接受的结局一直前进。
Those grim figures may not be a one-month fluke.
这些严峻的数字可能不是单月的偶然情况。
People do it all the time. It only takes a grim determination to force yourself consciously to interact with each new wave of technology, no matter how insipid it seems.
这种事其实人们都在做，成败的关键只在于你是否有意识地狠下决心强迫自己与科技的每次新浪潮互动，不管它看起来有多乏味无聊。
Because of his association with the underworld, Hades is often thought of as a grim figure.
由于他是冥界的掌管者，哈迪斯通常被认为是一个严酷的神。
His tall brothers were a grim, quiet lot, in whom the family tradition of past glories, lost forever, rankled in unspoken hate and crackled out in bitter humor.
他那些高个儿哥哥是些冷酷寡言的人，在他们身上，历史光荣的传统已经永远消失，沦落为默默的仇恨，爆裂出痛苦的幽默来了。
Well, at this point, Greece, where the crisis began, is no more than a grim sideshow.
在这个时候，危机开始地希腊只不过是一出令人不快的穿插节目。
Unless your topic is very grim, a smile can be a very powerful thing.
除非您的话题非常严肃，否则保持微笑是非常非常有好处的。
So the prospects are grim enough, but a continuing credit drought would make this much worse.
因此，前景可谓十分严峻，但信贷市场持续干涸可能将情况变得糟糕得多。
It is a grim prospect. Indeed, it is hard to be optimistic about Afghanistan in 2010.
前景令人担忧，人们确实很难对2010年的阿富汗局势抱有乐观的态度。
All this has led to a grim, and sudden, reassessment of growth prospects, especially in the rich world.
所有这些立即引起了对增长前景的悲观的重新评估，并且特别针对发达国家。
It may take such a grim scenario to support Treasuries, given their lofty prices and super-low yields.
鉴于其高昂的价格和超低的收益率，这种严峻局面确实可以支持美国国债目前的走势。
His doctors determined the cause was a malignant glioma, a brain tumor that carries a grim prognosis.
他的医生认为根源在于恶性神经胶质瘤，即脑部肿瘤，并预测病情不容乐观。
For most on the high street, it has been a grim few months, and Leeds is no exception.
对于商业街道上的大多数店铺，这是严峻的几个月，利兹也不例外。
For most on the high street, it has been a grim few months, and Leeds is no exception.
对于商业街道上的大多数店铺，这是严峻的几个月，利兹也不例外。
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