死气沉沉

Our country has not always been so dead and songless as it is today.

以前我们乡下并不像现在一样死气沉沉，一点儿歌声都听不到。

It is easy enough to say that man is immortal because he will endure: that when the last ding-dong of doom has clanged and faded from the last worthless rock hanging tideless in the last red and dying evening, that even then there will still one more sound: that of his puny inexhaustible voice, still talking.

当然，我们可以很轻易地认为人类是不朽的，因为他可以永远存在：当最后一块无用的礁石在血红色的、死气沉沉的黄昏中伫立，世界末日的钟声在它上空渐渐远去时，仍然会有一个声音，那是人类仍然在用微弱但永不停息的声音说话。

The long avenue, so bright and pleasant when the perfumed limes scattered their light bloom upon the pathway, and the dog-rose leaves floated on the summer air, was terribly bleak and desolate in the cheerless interregnum that divides the homely joys of Christmas from the pale blush of coming spring--a dead pause in the year, in which Nature seems to lie in a tranced sleep, awaiting the wondrous signal for the budding of the tree, and the bursting of the flower.

当芳香的菩提树把它们轻盈的花朵撒在小径上，野蔷薇的叶子飘浮在夏天的空气里时，这条长长的林荫道是多么明媚，多么信人，而今在这缺乏欢乐的中断期间，它是荒凉得多么可怕，凄凉得多么可怕。这个中断期把圣诞节家庭的欢乐和来春苍白的赧红划分了开来，它是一年之中的一个死气沉沉的停顿，大自然在此期间仿佛偃卧在昏睡之中，等待着树木抽芽、繁花绽开的信号。

Clearly the combination of a very un-innovative business culture, visionless management and overly generous labor contracts explains a lot of it.

死气沉沉的商业文化，鼠目寸光的管理，以及冗余的人员解释了所有一切。

Then he proceeded,slowly and carefully,wincing with pain,to the bank.

然而到了山头，见到的却是一片死气沉沉的浅谷。

If your morals make you dreary. depend upon it, they are wrong.

如果你的道德观让你变得死气沉沉，根据这一点，它们是错误的。

The Gotham they inhabit is shinier and brighter than the antiqued dystopia of "Batman Begins": theirs is the emblematic modern megalopolis (in truth, a cleverly disguised Chicago), soulless, anonymous, a city of distorting and shattering mirrors.

他们栖息的高顿市也比前作《侠影之谜》中地狱般的场景更为阳光、明亮：这是一个具有象征意味的现代超级大都市(事实上，是巧妙伪装的芝加哥)，死气沉沉、没有名字，充满了扭曲散乱的镜子。

But if it cannibalizes existing restaurants it could further wound this once-sleepy railroad watering stop beset by an immensity of sand.

但假使城中城抢走既有餐厅的生意，可能进一步戕害拉斯维加斯这个被无垠沙漠围绕，而一度死气沉沉的铁路止水带。

Its truth is self-evident, change page, can give a person a kind of sense that find everything new and fresh, not often board move a pair of inanimate face, can make a few inn friendly feel cheesed.

其道理不言而喻，更换页面，会给人一种耳目一新的感觉，不要老是板着一副死气沉沉的面孔，会让一些店友感到厌烦的。

Out of the dead compost and the inert slag they breed a song that contaminates.

他们从废弃的肥料和死气沉沉的废料中造出一首散发着臭气的歌。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。