Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world.占星术只不过是让人逃避越发令人沮丧的世界的无害消遣罢了。On the ground the mood is bleaker.具体形势更加严峻.Third, as has been noted, he is concerned blacker and bleaker problems than Emerso...

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adj.阴冷的( bleak的比较级 )，（状况）无望的，没有希望的，光秃的...