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adjective bliːkblik 1(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements. （地区，土地）荒凉的；裸露的，光秃秃的 荒凉而贫瘠的沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples - I look around, and the bleak landscape leads me to wonder what use a place like this would have for China, a country already vast in size, population and economy.
- It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
- Here one encounters the bleak landscape for the first time.
- The yard and the vast prairie lands were bleak and desolate.
- Rhea looked up miserably at the bleak mountains surrounding them.
- Our UN vehicle travelled along a barren and bleak landscape to reach the town from Sofia.
- The trees are bare, the land is bleak, closed, unproductive and numb, its furrows seemingly incapable of the new life we hope for in the spring.
- On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing.
- They are the last of their generation of brave young men who risked their lives for their country, fighting on the bleak battlefields of Flanders and facing horrors people today can hardly imagine.
- They were always the same; he would be stood at the top of the same cliff, watching the same bleak, dead land.
- And yet, amid this bleak landscape, there is talk of a new St. Bernard, rising from the mud.
- He described the desert as so bleak and empty that travelers stacked up bones as landmarks.
- You make a commitment to build a new world that is more fruitful and less bleak and barren than the desert of the past.
- They also give him room to create bleak landscapes that mirror the morality of the tales.
- With nothing but miles of open, bleak desert ahead of her, she battled mind over matter to reach the end of a gruelling 160 km trip.
- But after three years of drought and little prospect that this year's rains will arrive in mid-April, the scene in Gode and other zones is bleak.
- The Norwegian lieutenant was a national hero, known to everyone, even in this bleak area.
- It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass.
- The retail park is rather bleak and bare still, and there's a deal of construction going on.
- They seemed both happy and disturbed, glad to see a change of pace besides the bleak land they were in, but unhappy for it to be that kind of change of pace.
Synonyms bare, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, denuded, lunar, open, empty, windswept treeless, forestless, without vegetation, defoliated unsheltered, unprotected, unshielded rare unwooded - 1.1 (of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary.
（建筑物，房间）索然乏味的；不宜居住的；凄凉的 he looked round the bleak little room in despair 他绝望地环顾这冷清的小房间。 Example sentencesExamples - He now lives alone in a one-bedroom flat on a bleak housing estate in Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
- The psychologist's room was bare and bleak with no windows.
- And it isn't just that so many of its key scenes are set in dark, dreary places: a hellish prison, a bleak factory, the sewers of Paris.
- The very best of the various consequences that might befall us would be the prolonged hardship and misery of an indefinite stay in a bleak prison camp.
- After a few hours of riding, they saw it in the distance - a large, bleak tower, standing dark against a beautiful bright blue sky.
- It is a bleak suite of secure rooms, with bullet-proof doors and walls up to six feet thick.
- As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device.
- Even the bleak tower blocks of Hume are caught in limpid Northern sunlight, breaking through the clouds, making the estates look like places of hopeful promise.
- It seemed so hard to believe that anyone so accustomed to such accommodations could possibly live in the dark bleak castle of Amedon.
- Amongst these, a flutter of origami birds was the bright spot, alongside a glossy triptych of photos slotting bleak landscape between bleak tower blocks.
- Hammond paced around the man known as Samuel Phillips, who unwilling sat strapped to a bolted down chair in the center of the bleak interrogation room.
- After being bailed out by a friend, he is kidnapped and wakes up in a bleak room designed to look like a hotel but with a false view window and a locked steel door.
- It is a bleak, formally furnished room, with large gold-framed photographs of kings and queens on the walls.
- Isolated in a bleak house in the midst of a desolate, frozen landscape, Conradin finds himself unable to adjust to his aunt's harsh regime.
- Chillingham Castle - a wonderfully bleak castle in the north east - was used for Fotheringay, scene of Mary Queen of Scots' incarceration.
- They were ushered into a huge bleak room with some chairs, a bar with food and drinks, and a big-screen television.
- The painting becomes a study of a rather bleak room illuminated by indirect light that barely enables us to make out the art on the walls.
- Why a team with two Olympians couldn't find the moxie to pull out an important win was a mystery inside the Storm's bleak locker room.
- You get a sense of the scale of the city as you speed down rivers that curve forever, flanked by electrical towers, bleak apartment buildings and factories.
- He had been entrapped in this dark and bleak prison for years, and it was only recently that he had been able to escape its bars.
- 1.2 (of the weather) cold and miserable.
（天气）寒冷的；凄凉的 仲冬的一个寒冷日子。 Example sentencesExamples - Why go back to that bleak weather and humdrum British nine to five?
- The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
- Our weather was bleak, and in the US the climate was no better, the gloom reflecting the mood of the nation.
- Without warning rain began to come down in sheets, blanketing the world in a bleak fog.
- It left the punters with a warm glow to accompany them as they made their way in the evening's bleak weather.
- There are still months of bleak weather stretching out ahead without a glimmer of anything to look forward to, and festive cheer has up and left.
- She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
- Our host, Mr Barelli, greeted us in out of the bleak rain as he greets everyone at his restaurant.
- The cold and bleak winter weather all add up to us feeling grumpy and miserable.
- We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
- Although the weather on Friday was bleak, Bob assured me that Saturday would be great.
- It is very much a community event, with schools, businesses and local organisations all joining together for a fun day to brighten the bleak midwinter.
- So intense was the pain in this instance that I passed out on that cold, bleak Ann Arbor afternoon.
- Despite bleak weather, there was plenty of sparkle at Grasmere's first Festival of the Stars at the weekend, ensuring the event was a big success.
- January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February.
- There was little vegetation and a bleak wind blew down from the snows of the high passes.
- They fear that in the bleak weather, householders may want to take advantage of any offer to remove overgrown trees or shrubs.
- Out of Germany for 3 years, they returned to find the bleak, miserable European weather.
- I arrived shortly before 10 a.m. in a bleak downpour, trusting that someone had recorded my appointment.
- February is bleak and cold, and there's nothing wrong with a little color and a park full of people.
Synonyms cold, keen, raw, harsh, wintry piercing, penetrating, biting, nipping, stinging, sharp freezing, icy, icy-cold, frosty, frigid, chilly informal nippy British informal parky literary chill - 1.3 (of a situation) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favourable outcome.
（形势，前景）无望的，令人心灰意冷的；黯淡的 he paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way 他描绘了一个迷失了方向的公司，认为它前景黯淡。 前途黯淡。 Example sentencesExamples - A Jew must do what he or she can, must exert him- or herself to the fullest, even under the most hopeless, helpless and bleak situations.
- In Kabul, while initial food distributions have been conducted among its 1.1 million inhabitants, the long-term situation is bleak.
- Homeowners in flood-prone areas faced a bleak start to the new year.
- From a bleak situation there's still a chance of a complete cure.
- Alex Robson's bleak view of the sugar industry is challenged by the Queensland Canegrowers Organisation.
- With the real estate market booming and vacancy rates dropping, the situation for people looking for affordable housing is bleak.
- But the desperately bleak situation in the Middle East cannot be allowed to become a zero sum game.
- I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children.
- Against this bleak background, the good news is that there is a clear distinction between anti-Americanism and criticism of US policies.
- Newspaper reports about the topic also opened her eyes to the bleak situation of the elderly.
- Gaye Alexander, who co-owns Horbury Junction Post Office, which is closing later this month, claimed the situation was bleak.
- Conditions are so bleak in so many areas we seem on the verge of a social emergency.
- I think that the Air Canada situation is pretty bleak.
- A bleak exposé of the risk came in a remarkably frank report by Jiang protge Zeng Qinghong, head of the party's powerful organization department.
- It's New York in the mid-'80s and the situation is bleak.
- People in such bleak circumstances often acted upon desperation.
- Payment delays were causing families considerable hardship at a time when farming was already in crisis and future prospects were bleak, he said.
- Last week Noonan suggested the need for more family farms - at a time when farmers are leaving the land in droves and a future on the land rarely seems more bleak.
- If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future.
- Otherwise the future of sport in the area will be very bleak indeed and may fine sporting amenities will remain underused.
Synonyms unpromising, unfavourable, unpropitious, inauspicious, adverse, disadvantageous, uninviting, discouraging, disheartening, depressing, cheerless, joyless, gloomy, sombre, dreary, dismal, wretched, miserable, black, dark, grim, drab, portentous, foreboding, hopeless, ominous - 1.4 (of a person's expression) cold and forbidding.
（人或其表情）冷漠的，冷峻的 his mouth was set and his eyes were bleak 他嘴巴紧闭，目光冷峻。 Example sentencesExamples - His eyes were hooded matching the bleak, dark expression on his face.
- Siannodelli entered, wrapped in a cloak and carrying a bag, her expression so bleak and reminiscent of her mother that the bard panicked.
- She looked so hopeless and bleak, her expression scared me.
- I smiled encouragingly when she turned a bleak expression on me.
- Katherine met her on the porch, her expression bleak.
- One minute, he was staring off into outer space with a dreamy smile on his face and a split second afterward, he was tensed up with a bleak, grim expression.
- She was certain that he was angry - a single glance at his bleak expression could have informed an idiot thus.
- Although his expression was bleak, he smiled at that.
- Captain Val was the first to greet her, his expression bleak.
- But he was stuck, following her eyes as the smile left her face and she looked into the distance with a bleak expression.
Derivativesadverb ˈbliːkli The play of image and title assures us, bleakly, that the magi and the scholar-diplomats have been replaced by genetic engineers and military strategists. Example sentencesExamples - Inis Theatre focuses its warped lens on the bleakly comic world of love and those who want it… taking on the three-minute mating game for the curious, the desperate and the deranged.
- In a bleakly appropriate coda, just as we finished discussing the rehabilitation of mined lands, a one-legged man on a bicycle pedaled gamely past our car.
- In the United States, residents of the New Jersey fishing town of Little Egg Harbor are bleakly counting down the hours before the scheduled execution of one of their neighbours, Paul Johnson.
- At first, and indeed for the first hour or so, the play - set not just in a nursing home but in the bathroom of a nursing home - seems bleakly realistic.
- As for his business trips abroad, the reality was bleakly mundane: three or four days watching television in a lonely room in the Geneva airport hotel, after which he'd return bearing gifts from the duty-free shop.
- With the steel town dying around them, Romero's personal, downbeat, bleakly beautiful movie is simultaneously psycho-thriller and black social satire.
- ‘I guess I forgot to turn the water off,’ he shrugged as I bleakly stared down at the puddle of water that had now turned the floor into an Olympic-size swimming pool.
- Other shops bleakly announce: CLOSED FOR WINTER.
- United's day began bleakly when Rio Ferdinand sustained the 14th-minute knee injury which would ultimately see him hobbling off the field early in the second half to begin his eight-month suspension.
- Rather surprisingly, he went on to express regret that he would not be able to see Coldplay, purveyors of a brand of rock so bleakly miserable they make the Velvet Underground sound like the Laughing Policeman.
- At every machine an earnest young (or not-so-young but trying to look it) person pumps bleakly away, intimidatingly burning those extra pounds, trimming those recalcitrant inches.
- As long as I'm on the subject: Friday I found a new installment of the Acme Novelty Library by Chris Ware, which continues to be the most bleakly amusing account of emotional cruelty you'll find.
- Apart from the odd murder, armed robbery, and depraved party, it's mostly sitting around bleakly decorated social clubs, playing gin rummy and eating.
- The government's view, he said bleakly, was that throughout their history the Jews had been forced to justify their existence; they were no longer prepared to do so.
- A chisel-faced Van Gogh stares bleakly from a green ground, Francis Bacon is a massacre of distorted whorls and Sarah Lucas peers over a wilting cigarette.
- This tale of privileged Asian-American high schoolers whose studious, overachieving image serves as a cover for criminal activity drew criticism for the bleakly amoral light it throws on its subjects.
- Dan, now successful in advertising, is doing his best to drink himself into failure; in a bleakly comic scene he clashes with Julia, who has become a wealthy lifestyle guru.
- The phone rings so the father goes downstairs, sparing Lewis from a beating but leaving him shocked and scared, slumped against the door staring bleakly into the camera.
- There are also a lot of rousing singalongs devoted to Gough's belief in the transcendental power of love, balanced by lyrical dramas bleakly pondering death and the afterlife.
OriginOld English blāc 'shining, white', or in later use from synonymous Old Norse bleikr; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to bleach. Rhymesantique, batik, beak, bespeak, bezique, boutique, cacique, caïque, cheek, chic, clique, creak, creek, critique, Dominique, eke, freak, geek, Greek, hide-and-seek, keek, Lalique, leak, leek, Martinique, meek, midweek, Mozambique, Mustique, mystique, oblique, opéra comique, ortanique, peak, Peake, peek, physique, pique, pratique, reek, seek, shriek, Sikh, sleek, sneak, speak, Speke, squeak, streak, teak, technique, tongue-in-cheek, tweak, unique, veronique, weak, week, wreak noun bliːkblik A small silvery shoaling fish of the carp family, found in Eurasian rivers. 欧鲌 Genera Alburnus and Chalcalburnus, family Cyprinidae: several species, in particular A. alburnus Example sentencesExamples - The chef has tried to offer a wide variety of freshwater fish dishes, keeping in touch, however, with traditional recipes such as rice with perch, fried bleaks, and whitefish.
- The restaurant offers fish-starters which are a house speciality, marinated bleaks, trout on a bed of rocket, and fillets of smoked eel.
- The browned perch fillets may be added with rice, the lake whitefishes and the small but delicious bleaks.
- The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks, so they left me alone and I got some pike.
- Cleaned bleaks are salted and weighed down for 48 hours.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old Norse bleikja. adjectiveblikblēk 1(of an area of land) lacking vegetation and exposed to the elements. （地区，土地）荒凉的；裸露的，光秃秃的 荒凉而贫瘠的沼泽地。 Example sentencesExamples - Rhea looked up miserably at the bleak mountains surrounding them.
- Here one encounters the bleak landscape for the first time.
- And yet, amid this bleak landscape, there is talk of a new St. Bernard, rising from the mud.
- It was partly Wolfe's portrait of the Bronx - a bleak, unprepossessing gang land - that has kept me away all this time.
- I look around, and the bleak landscape leads me to wonder what use a place like this would have for China, a country already vast in size, population and economy.
- On the 40-minute journey across the bleak landscape of the Fens the coach was preceded by a vanguard of police motorcycles with blue lights flashing.
- The yard and the vast prairie lands were bleak and desolate.
- But after three years of drought and little prospect that this year's rains will arrive in mid-April, the scene in Gode and other zones is bleak.
- With nothing but miles of open, bleak desert ahead of her, she battled mind over matter to reach the end of a gruelling 160 km trip.
- The Norwegian lieutenant was a national hero, known to everyone, even in this bleak area.
- The retail park is rather bleak and bare still, and there's a deal of construction going on.
- You make a commitment to build a new world that is more fruitful and less bleak and barren than the desert of the past.
- They seemed both happy and disturbed, glad to see a change of pace besides the bleak land they were in, but unhappy for it to be that kind of change of pace.
- It was a vast, bleak, exposed expanse of tarmac with nothing in it but broken glass.
- They were always the same; he would be stood at the top of the same cliff, watching the same bleak, dead land.
- The trees are bare, the land is bleak, closed, unproductive and numb, its furrows seemingly incapable of the new life we hope for in the spring.
- Our UN vehicle travelled along a barren and bleak landscape to reach the town from Sofia.
- They also give him room to create bleak landscapes that mirror the morality of the tales.
- He described the desert as so bleak and empty that travelers stacked up bones as landmarks.
- They are the last of their generation of brave young men who risked their lives for their country, fighting on the bleak battlefields of Flanders and facing horrors people today can hardly imagine.
Synonyms bare, exposed, desolate, stark, arid, desert, denuded, lunar, open, empty, windswept - 1.1 (of a building or room) charmless and inhospitable; dreary.
（建筑物，房间）索然乏味的；不宜居住的；凄凉的 he looked around the bleak little room in despair 他绝望地环顾这冷清的小房间。 Example sentencesExamples - After a few hours of riding, they saw it in the distance - a large, bleak tower, standing dark against a beautiful bright blue sky.
- He had been entrapped in this dark and bleak prison for years, and it was only recently that he had been able to escape its bars.
- After being bailed out by a friend, he is kidnapped and wakes up in a bleak room designed to look like a hotel but with a false view window and a locked steel door.
- He now lives alone in a one-bedroom flat on a bleak housing estate in Stranraer, Wigtownshire.
- Hammond paced around the man known as Samuel Phillips, who unwilling sat strapped to a bolted down chair in the center of the bleak interrogation room.
- Chillingham Castle - a wonderfully bleak castle in the north east - was used for Fotheringay, scene of Mary Queen of Scots' incarceration.
- And it isn't just that so many of its key scenes are set in dark, dreary places: a hellish prison, a bleak factory, the sewers of Paris.
- Isolated in a bleak house in the midst of a desolate, frozen landscape, Conradin finds himself unable to adjust to his aunt's harsh regime.
- You get a sense of the scale of the city as you speed down rivers that curve forever, flanked by electrical towers, bleak apartment buildings and factories.
- It seemed so hard to believe that anyone so accustomed to such accommodations could possibly live in the dark bleak castle of Amedon.
- It is a bleak suite of secure rooms, with bullet-proof doors and walls up to six feet thick.
- They were ushered into a huge bleak room with some chairs, a bar with food and drinks, and a big-screen television.
- The very best of the various consequences that might befall us would be the prolonged hardship and misery of an indefinite stay in a bleak prison camp.
- Amongst these, a flutter of origami birds was the bright spot, alongside a glossy triptych of photos slotting bleak landscape between bleak tower blocks.
- The painting becomes a study of a rather bleak room illuminated by indirect light that barely enables us to make out the art on the walls.
- Even the bleak tower blocks of Hume are caught in limpid Northern sunlight, breaking through the clouds, making the estates look like places of hopeful promise.
- It is a bleak, formally furnished room, with large gold-framed photographs of kings and queens on the walls.
- The psychologist's room was bare and bleak with no windows.
- As there are hardly any congregants in the bleak church, and these include only some of the central characters, this seems a strange device.
- Why a team with two Olympians couldn't find the moxie to pull out an important win was a mystery inside the Storm's bleak locker room.
- 1.2 (of the weather) cold and miserable.
（天气）寒冷的；凄凉的 仲冬的一个寒冷日子。 Example sentencesExamples - We paired it up with a floral top because in the bleak mid-winter there is nothing quite so depressing as the flowerless landscape.
- The bleak and even ominous weather conditions only added to the feeling of desolation that consumed the languishing souls in the castle.
- Without warning rain began to come down in sheets, blanketing the world in a bleak fog.
- So intense was the pain in this instance that I passed out on that cold, bleak Ann Arbor afternoon.
- Although the weather on Friday was bleak, Bob assured me that Saturday would be great.
- The cold and bleak winter weather all add up to us feeling grumpy and miserable.
- There are still months of bleak weather stretching out ahead without a glimmer of anything to look forward to, and festive cheer has up and left.
- February is bleak and cold, and there's nothing wrong with a little color and a park full of people.
- January was dimming into the equally cold, bleak abyss of New England weather that was February.
- It is very much a community event, with schools, businesses and local organisations all joining together for a fun day to brighten the bleak midwinter.
- They fear that in the bleak weather, householders may want to take advantage of any offer to remove overgrown trees or shrubs.
- Our host, Mr Barelli, greeted us in out of the bleak rain as he greets everyone at his restaurant.
- Out of Germany for 3 years, they returned to find the bleak, miserable European weather.
- Despite bleak weather, there was plenty of sparkle at Grasmere's first Festival of the Stars at the weekend, ensuring the event was a big success.
- Why go back to that bleak weather and humdrum British nine to five?
- It left the punters with a warm glow to accompany them as they made their way in the evening's bleak weather.
- Our weather was bleak, and in the US the climate was no better, the gloom reflecting the mood of the nation.
- There was little vegetation and a bleak wind blew down from the snows of the high passes.
- I arrived shortly before 10 a.m. in a bleak downpour, trusting that someone had recorded my appointment.
- She gasped in excitement as she saw bolts of lightning flitter across the sky, leaping from one bleak rain cloud to another.
Synonyms cold, keen, raw, harsh, wintry - 1.3 (of a situation or future prospect) not hopeful or encouraging; unlikely to have a favorable outcome.
（形势，前景）无望的，令人心灰意冷的；黯淡的 he paints a bleak picture of a company that has lost its way 他描绘了一个迷失了方向的公司，认为它前景黯淡。 Example sentencesExamples - It's New York in the mid-'80s and the situation is bleak.
- Conditions are so bleak in so many areas we seem on the verge of a social emergency.
- If people on middle incomes continue to shun inner cities, those areas will face a bleak future.
- Payment delays were causing families considerable hardship at a time when farming was already in crisis and future prospects were bleak, he said.
- With the real estate market booming and vacancy rates dropping, the situation for people looking for affordable housing is bleak.
- Homeowners in flood-prone areas faced a bleak start to the new year.
- Alex Robson's bleak view of the sugar industry is challenged by the Queensland Canegrowers Organisation.
- From a bleak situation there's still a chance of a complete cure.
- People in such bleak circumstances often acted upon desperation.
- A Jew must do what he or she can, must exert him- or herself to the fullest, even under the most hopeless, helpless and bleak situations.
- Gaye Alexander, who co-owns Horbury Junction Post Office, which is closing later this month, claimed the situation was bleak.
- Otherwise the future of sport in the area will be very bleak indeed and may fine sporting amenities will remain underused.
- I spoke with mothers fretful and tearful about their bleak prospects but struggling to maintain a facade of optimism and cheerfulness in the presence of their children.
- Newspaper reports about the topic also opened her eyes to the bleak situation of the elderly.
- I think that the Air Canada situation is pretty bleak.
- But the desperately bleak situation in the Middle East cannot be allowed to become a zero sum game.
- Against this bleak background, the good news is that there is a clear distinction between anti-Americanism and criticism of US policies.
- In Kabul, while initial food distributions have been conducted among its 1.1 million inhabitants, the long-term situation is bleak.
- A bleak exposé of the risk came in a remarkably frank report by Jiang protge Zeng Qinghong, head of the party's powerful organization department.
- Last week Noonan suggested the need for more family farms - at a time when farmers are leaving the land in droves and a future on the land rarely seems more bleak.
Synonyms unpromising, unfavourable, unpropitious, inauspicious, adverse, disadvantageous, uninviting, discouraging, disheartening, depressing, cheerless, joyless, gloomy, sombre, dreary, dismal, wretched, miserable, black, dark, grim, drab, portentous, foreboding, hopeless, ominous - 1.4 (of a person or a person's expression) cold and forbidding.
（人或其表情）冷漠的，冷峻的 his bleak, near vacant eyes grew remote Example sentencesExamples - Although his expression was bleak, he smiled at that.
- His eyes were hooded matching the bleak, dark expression on his face.
- She was certain that he was angry - a single glance at his bleak expression could have informed an idiot thus.
- Captain Val was the first to greet her, his expression bleak.
- I smiled encouragingly when she turned a bleak expression on me.
- Siannodelli entered, wrapped in a cloak and carrying a bag, her expression so bleak and reminiscent of her mother that the bard panicked.
- Katherine met her on the porch, her expression bleak.
- One minute, he was staring off into outer space with a dreamy smile on his face and a split second afterward, he was tensed up with a bleak, grim expression.
- But he was stuck, following her eyes as the smile left her face and she looked into the distance with a bleak expression.
- She looked so hopeless and bleak, her expression scared me.
OriginOld English blāc ‘shining, white’, or in later use from synonymous Old Norse bleikr; ultimately of Germanic origin and related to bleach. nounblikblēk A small silvery shoaling fish of the minnow family, found in Eurasian rivers. 欧鲌 Genera Alburnus and Chalcalburnus, family Cyprinidae: several species, in particular A. alburnus Example sentencesExamples - The chef has tried to offer a wide variety of freshwater fish dishes, keeping in touch, however, with traditional recipes such as rice with perch, fried bleaks, and whitefish.
- Cleaned bleaks are salted and weighed down for 48 hours.
- The restaurant offers fish-starters which are a house speciality, marinated bleaks, trout on a bed of rocket, and fillets of smoked eel.
- The flies for pike were naturally bigger than the bleaks, so they left me alone and I got some pike.
- The browned perch fillets may be added with rice, the lake whitefishes and the small but delicious bleaks.
OriginLate 15th century: from Old Norse bleikja. |