1.
"Then, General, commanded to proceed with your work, You centred all your being on a piece of silk."
诏谓将军拂绢素, 意匠惨淡经营中;
2.
What makes life dreary is the want of motive.
没有主意，生命便惨淡无光。
3.
It's a brown wet ugly fall.
时值秋天，天气阴湿，惨淡。
4.
a sombre picture of the future of the world
世界未来的惨淡写照.
5.
A pale light fell straight on the bed.
一道惨淡的光直照在床上，
6.
Life is a vulgar flare amid the cool radiance.
生命只是惨淡的星光里的平凡的一闪.
7.
The weather in December was bleak and unpleasant.
十二月份的天气是惨淡而令人难受的。
8.
in comparison to the bleak conditions in his homeland.
而相比之下他家乡的境况是如何惨淡。
9.
It is a sad sky that has no shining stars.
没有灿烂群星的天空是惨淡无光的。
10.
The cause they contrived so painstakingly also ended in failure.
他们惨淡经营的事业也以失败而告终。
11.
The land is in a dismal condition.
那片土地是一片阴郁惨淡的景象。
12.
Today all that seems pale and thin and very far away.
现在，一切都显得疏落惨淡，一切都远离我们而去。
13.
Tourism are down and many hotels are operating in the red.
旅游业在走下坡路，许多酒店惨淡经营，入不敷出。
14.
Barely visible in the pale shadows of the horizon.
在水天相接、惨淡无光的地方，仿佛还隐约可辨。
15.
"With student enrolment dwindling, the Japanese-language schools are struggling to survive."
日语学校惨淡经营,学日语的学生人数每况愈下。
16.
Facing the Gloomy Life --On Lu Xun and Thomas Hardy
直面惨淡的人生——鲁迅与哈代共、异性探析
17.
The CD and music industry are doing badly because of the recession.
因为经济衰退，光盘和音乐行业经营惨淡。
18.
Keeping Going by Painstaking Effort of Acoustics--Inquiring into the Art of Acoustic Description in A Dream of Red Mansion;
惨淡经营的音响之维——《红楼梦》写声艺术探微