She had sunk into a dreary apathy and would not be roused.

她已陷入一种沮丧的麻木状态，再也无法振作起来。

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Dreary and blank like a dream.

象梦一般地凄婉迷茫。

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How can he when it's such a great, bare, dreary place?

那地方那么大，那么光秃秃的，那么可怕，他怎么会喜欢呢？

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He hears a noise at the window. Here is the beginning of the poem: Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered,weak and weary,Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore -- While I nodded,nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping -- rapping at my chamber door.

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He hired a recent University of Minnesota graduate, Garrison Keillor, who became a hit on the dreary 6 a.m. to 9 a.m. shift.

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By day, Mr Almodovar, who comes from a poor village in La Mancha, the dusty plain to the south of Madrid, held down a dreary job as a clerk in the state telephone company.

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The heroine, the fortyish Hester Collyer (Rachel Weisz), has left her husband, a rich, distinguished barrister (Simon Russell Beale), and is living in a dreary bed-sit in London with a former R.

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