It is daylight, but the darkness inside the headquarters of the world's biggest privately owned electricity company is sepulchral.(外面天光大亮,但在世界最大的私有电力公司内是一片黑暗、死气沉沉。)
Seeking to liberate their creation from the sepulchral atmosphere of the plague-ridden medieval era, the Notre Dame architects conceived of a design more spacious than that of their predecessors.(寻求把他们的创作从世纪黑死病蔓延的死寂气氛中摆脱出来,圣母院的建筑师们构思出比他们的前人更宽阔的设计。)
He spoke in sepulchral tones.(他说话语气阴沉。)
There was a rather sepulchral atmosphere in the room.(房间里有一种颇为阴沉的气氛。)
Do you hear it's sepulchral tone?(你是否听到那阴森森的音调?)
Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.(沙沙作响的树叶像是鬼怪们在窃窃私语,暗影里不知有多少魂灵埋伏着,远处不时传来沉沉的狗吠,一只猫头鹰阴森地厉叫着。)
Sepulchral rumors floated about the village and it was said that the landlord's son returned in the middle of the night and talked with agents whom he had bribed.(村子里一时流言四起,人心浮动,说什么王常盈的儿子有一天半夜里溜回了村,与几个被他收买的人进行密谈。)
He made his way along the sepulchral corridors.(他沿着阴森森的走廊走了。)
The shop-keepers speak in slow, measured tones, and the buyers, overwhelmed by the sepulchral atmosphere, follow suit.(店主人用一种低沉的,有节奏的调子说话,被这种特殊氛围深深感染了的买家只好随大流了。)
She smoothed her hair with the palm of her hand, and smiled into the mirror, humming with her cracked and sepulchral voice.(她用手掌抹平自己的头发,一面对着镜子装笑脸,一面用她那破裂阴惨的嗓子轻轻地哼着。)