The likeness is indeed true, but it is a dull, dead, unfeeling, inauspicious likeness . 真的，它确实很象，但却是一种呆滞死板，暮气沉沉，毫无情感的相似。
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It seemed that the more lifeless he was at ordinary times , the more energetic he became at such moments of morbid irritability 看来，他平常显得愈加暮气沉沉，而在兴奋时就会显得愈加生气勃勃。
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The whole city was shrouded in gloom and doom when sars struck earlier this year , as the daunting pressure had us almost succumbed to despair and fear 回想今年年初，一场非典疫潮，把整个香港笼罩得暮气沉沉，压力之大，令人几乎喘不过气。
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In the 1930s , the city had been a rather sleepy port , a quiet colonial backwater whose economy and importance were dwarfed by shanghai 在本世纪三十年代，香港是一个相当暮气沉沉的港口，可以说是寂静的和殖民地式的穷乡僻壤，就经济和重要性而言，远远落后于上海。
