grim.

/grim/US // grɪm //UK // (ɡrɪm) //

严峻的,严酷的,严峻,严肃的

Definitions

adj.hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance

Synonyms

The Council is also set to hear from city staff Tuesday on the grim five-year outlook for funding all the necessary improvements to the city’s roads, streets, drains, pipes and all the rest.
It’s because of surfing that I still know how to smile when things are otherwise grim.
Regulators increasingly viewed Amazon as a threat to competition, and the company’s own workers at times told grim tales about their mistreatment, as they sought to carry out Bezos’s mission to create a consumer-first “everything store.”
He warned it will be a months-long and difficult process to distribute vaccines, and characterized himself as a “straight shooter” for offering that grim timeline.
If one can summon any optimism nearly a year into a grim and persistent pandemic, this is the moment to do it.
These were conversations that took a fairly grim twist pretty quickly.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
But if the goal is to maintain any hope—grim as it is— for serious negotiations leading to a two state solution.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.

/grim/US // grɪm //UK // (ɡrɪm) //

严峻的,严酷的,严峻,严肃的

adj.hopeless, horrible in manner, appearance

Synonyms

The Council is also set to hear from city staff Tuesday on the grim five-year outlook for funding all the necessary improvements to the city’s roads, streets, drains, pipes and all the rest.
It’s because of surfing that I still know how to smile when things are otherwise grim.
Regulators increasingly viewed Amazon as a threat to competition, and the company’s own workers at times told grim tales about their mistreatment, as they sought to carry out Bezos’s mission to create a consumer-first “everything store.”
He warned it will be a months-long and difficult process to distribute vaccines, and characterized himself as a “straight shooter” for offering that grim timeline.
If one can summon any optimism nearly a year into a grim and persistent pandemic, this is the moment to do it.
These were conversations that took a fairly grim twist pretty quickly.
The grim instability of shelter life is hardly a recipe for success under the best of circumstances.
But if the goal is to maintain any hope—grim as it is— for serious negotiations leading to a two state solution.
Alan Gross was in a cheery mood, having survived a grim five-year stint in a Cuban prison.