"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"
当叶落花谢天寒。
Tell how his boyhood was one drear night-hour.告诉你他童年是怎样阴沉的夜?
Was he to pay a year of his life to verify the certainty of being thrust into the drear realm of the null-talented?用一年的时间做代价来证明自己没有任何天赋,然后被强行送到没有魔法的平凡世界?