He may be conceited, ill-mannered, presumptuous or fatuous, but I do not turn for protection to dreary cliches about respect for elders--as if mere age were a reason for respect.

脑子里就想到这些年轻人也许狂妄自负，举止无理，傲慢放肆，愚昧无知，但我不会用应当尊重长者这一套陈词滥调来为我自己辨护，似乎年长就是受人尊敬理由。

I suppose that everyone finds his first independent start in business a dreary experience.

我想，每个人都会发现，第一次独自开业是一件枯燥无味事。

That is a mistake ATTACKS on bankers by protesters from Occupy Wall Street, Occupy London and Occupy any city where a financier might have the temerity to turn a quick buck have spiced up the dreary economic news of the past year.

这是错误去年，抗议者对银行家攻击让枯燥经济新闻变得有趣了起来：他们“占领华尔街”、“占领伦敦”、占领任何一个金融业者可能敢于赚大钱城市。

They have an air of freedom, and they have not a dreary commitment to mean ambitions or love of comfort.

他们无拘无束，他们既不追逐卑鄙名利，也不贪图生活舒适。

Was ever such a dreary, dismal, unprofitable world?

难道有过这样凄凉惨淡而又无聊世界吗？

O earth, so full of dreary noises!

啊，大地，到处令人积郁噪音！

" Oh! don't, Miss Catherine! " I cried. " We're dismal enough without conjuring up ghosts and visions to perplex us. Come, come, be merry and like yourself! Look at little Hareton! he's dreaming nothing dreary. How sweetly he smiles in his sleep! "

“啊，别啦，凯瑟琳姐！”我叫着，“用不着招神现鬼来缠我们，我们已够惨啦。来，来，高兴起来，像你本来样子！看看哈里顿——他梦中想不到什么伤心事。他在睡眠中笑得多甜啊！”

There was only a bare, dreary yard to be seen, and the blank side of the brick house twenty feet away.

只见一个空荡阴暗院子，20英尺以外还有一所砖房空墙。

Oh, it was Heaven after the last dreary year!

啊，经历了过去一年暗淡日子，这里就是天堂了！

In the depth of the night has come the king of our dark, dreary house.

在深夜中国王降临到我黑暗凄凉房子里了。

In the whole world there can be no more dreary view than that from the northern slope of the Sierra Blanco.

世界上再也没有什么地方会比布兰卡山脉北麓景象更为凄凉了。

The stretch of Piedmont Road in northeast Atlanta is usually quiet and dreary.

亚特兰大东北部一段皮埃蒙特道通常安静而沉闷。

You couldn't have found them in this dreary town.

你不可能在这个破地方买到。

It was dreary work standing in the gateway hour after hour in such weather.

在这种天气里连续站几时，确是苦恼得很。

And the day is dark and dreary.

无端愁思 ，难遣心中惆怅。

Matter is not all alike. If it were, what a dreary world this would be!

不同物质存在不同特性, 否则话, 这个世界将是多么无趣啊！

Some days must be dark and sad and dreary.

某些日子定会变得黑暗而凄凉。

Anyway, enough of those... Those dreary thoughts, right?

总之 别再搞得这么沉闷了？

They are larger...but so dreary and solitary and no one sleeps there.

它们大些… 只是太过深寒幽辟，没人睡那里。

More serious possibilities include the dreary, hackneyed Warriors; the Redtails, honouring the black Tuskegee Airmen, who fought in the second world war; and the Red Wolves, which like the Redtails would let the team keep its burgundy- and-gold colours.

还可能有一些更严肃名字，包括枯燥陈腐战士；红尾蛇，纪念二战中黑獠牙飞行员；还有红狼，这个名字和红尾蛇一样，可以让球队保有其深红色和金色。