Like the nearly burned-out bonfire described in the title poem, Mr Paulin's poetry revels in a certain charred bleakness.

诗集开篇中所描述的，那余烬尚有一丝红亮的篝火，正是坡林先生的诗，仅存词句之焦烬，似无意涵之生息，却别蕴一种狂纵和自得。

I shuddered slightly at the sudden bleakness in his voice, but I was relieved.

他声音里的阴郁让我微微颤抖着，但我还是很宽慰。

For all the bleakness in Wilmer's performance, on the rare occasion that he allowed Holmes some humour...

威尔默阴郁的演出偶尔也会展现福尔摩斯幽默的一面。

What is it? he asked anxiously distracted, but not enough. The bleakness did not entirely leave his eyes.

“怎么了？”他担心地问道。他被分了神，但还不够。他眼里的阴郁依然没有完全褪去。

The bleakness of 2020 in Latin America also owes much to the condition of its economies before the coronavirus spread.

2020年拉丁美洲的惨淡景象在很大程度上也要归咎于其在冠状病毒传播之前的经济状况。

Schulz, born 100 years ago this month, could trace the bleakness of his worldview to a dour childhood in St Paul, Minnesota.

舒尔茨出生于 100 年前的这个月，他世界观的凄凉可以追溯到他在明尼苏达州圣保罗度过的悲惨童年。

Yet accompanying the bleakness of Kafka's stories, there's a great deal of humor rooted in the nonsensical logic of the situations described.

然而，伴随着卡夫卡故事的凄凉，有很多幽默植根于所描述的情况的荒谬逻辑。

It captures the bleakness that was at the heart of many pagan mythologies: a vision of a doomed world, soon to be destroyed by the gods, or by time.

这种式微是众多异教神话的核心，即世界满目疮痍，或将遭神毁灭，或湮没于时间。

It irked me in a tropical climate to stare day after day at bony, leafless trees, as though there were no escape in all the world from bleakness.

在热带气候下，日复一日地盯着枯瘦的枯树，这让我感到厌烦，仿佛全世界都无法逃避凄凉。