Rooms in cheap hotels are often dingy. 在低级旅馆中全是又黑又脏的房间。
Our first sight of the dingy little hotel did not inspire us with much confidence/inspire much confidence in us. 我们一见到那旅店昏暗肮脏, 心里就很不痛快.
dingy dingier, dingiest
[ adj ]
thickly covered with ingrained dirt or soot
<adj.all> a miner's begrimed face dingy linen grimy hands grubby little fingers a grungy kitchen
(of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear
<adj.all> dirty a dirty (or dingy) white the muddied grey of the sea muddy colors dirty-green walls dirty-blonde hair
causing dejection
<adj.all> a blue day the dark days of the war a week of rainy depressing weather a disconsolate winter landscape the first dismal dispiriting days of November a dark gloomy day grim rainy weather
Dingy \Din"gy\ (d[i^]n"j[y^]), a. [Compar. {Dingier}; superl. {Dingiest}.] [Prob. fr. dung. Cf. {Dungy}.] Soiled; sullied; of a dark or dusky color; dark brown; dirty. ``Scraps of dingy paper.'' --Macaulay. ※ ||
Dingey \Din"gey\, Dingy \Din"gy\, Dinghy \Din"ghy\, n. [Bengalee dingi.] 1. a small boat propelled by oars or sails, used in the East Indies, in sheltered waters. [Written also {dinghey}.] --Malcom.
2. a small boat intended to be used as a tender or lifeboat, carried or towed by a ship. It may be propelled by oars, sail, or a motor. [PJC]
3. a small boat of shallow draft with cross thwarts for seats and rowlocks for oars with which it is propelled.
Syn: dory, rowboat. [WordNet 1.5]
An angst-ridden Alex (Michael Rupert) disappears for four months, and when he returns to his dingy New York apartment, there is a pile of mail to open.
A woman behind the counter of a dingy bar recently measured out glasses of bitters _ the only drink available _ and laughed derisively when asked for coffee or tea.
Father Haughey came to a cramped, dingy conference room in the heart of New York's financial district recently to talk to Wall Street executives about God and Mammon.
I stalked off. I could find historic splendour on my own. Two hours later, weary and defeated, I checked into a dingy hotel. It was the nearest thing I could find to historic splendour.
"It won't make any difference down here," said 21-year-old E.Z. Ty, who interrupted a conversation on a dingy corner of Blue Hill Avenue to say he sells crack and show off the chrome-plated revolver in his waistband.
"I guess they thought I'm a little dingy," she said. "I miss the show a lot.
But after poking around the dark and dingy interior, Hewlett and Packard said they did not accept its billing as "birthplace of Silicon Valley," and were not eager to reminisce.
He said the four who fled in the dingy surrendered Friday on a neighboring island.
The lights are going out in President Mohammed Siad Barre's dingy, crumbling capital.
And frequent visitors to East Berlin will be glad to hear that the railroad station that has long been a grim gateway to the world of communism will soon lose its dingy yellow interior.
Rich in small shops, restaurants and 'brown' cafes - bars named for their dingy, old-fashioned decor - it still has an authentic atmosphere.
Banerjee said the mercenaries, estimated to number about 150, fled in two boats and one dingy.
I'm getting ready to kick the bucket," said Raisa Okolkova, a 58-year-old cleaning woman sweeping the cracked white and gray floor tiles of a dingy grocery store.
The Maranon is a dingy dream factory, as squalid as the slums its young boxers are fighting to leave.
But in time, she wearily trudges into Goldberg's dingy, rundown cafe and motel, located somewhere between desolation and hard times.
This is my past, present and future." The El rattles and rumbles over Frankford Avenue and dingy bars like Kenny's Saloon, The Happy Tap and the Beefhouse Tavern.
If so, he proves how much inspired teaching can do for the dingy.
Back in his dingy office in the depths of the police academy, where he has returned to work, he ponders his ouster with a touch of fatalism.
On its own, the threat is probably containable while such stores mostly continue to sell a narrow range of goods from dingy high-street premises frequented by poorer consumers.
When you are in a Zodiac inflatable dingy and close enough to be drenched in the fine spray from a whale's blow-hole it is rather a different matter.
Waits' songs are offbeat paeans to gritty life at the margin, describing nighthawks at the diner, truck drivers, hard drinkers and prostitutes in dingy worlds filled with cigarette smoke.
She knows how to sidestep young men strung out on drugs huddled in dingy hallways, and she's no longer shocked by dead bodies _ even at her doorstep.
From a dingy office here, the former television sportscaster spends his days seeking records and getting them certified.