darkly

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1 THREATENin a sad, angry, or threatening way 不快地；生气地；威胁地

Fred scowled darkly at her.

弗雷德满面怒容地看着她。

2 having a dark colour 深色地

a darkly handsome man

肤色黝黑的英俊男子

3 darkly funny/humorous/comic dealing with something that is bad or upsetting in a funny way 黑色幽默的

a darkly comic look at illness

看待疾病的黑色幽默态度

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darkly funny/humorous/comic• The show is a darkly comic look at medicine, money and morality.• Social Blunders, which follows the romantic misadventures of 33-year-old Sam Callahan, is a darkly comic romp through heartache.

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darkly• The model came in with the cups of tea, still glowering darkly at Paula from beneath her fringe of false eyelashes.• In 1943, it was a darkly dangerous, Kafka-like venture into the ugly opportunities of total war.• The light filtering in was enough to reveal a darkly gleaming surface of water, turbulent, continually rising.• The devastating thing about him is that he has those darkly glowing brown eyes like yours.• In an undergraduate photograph, his darkly handsome face has an air of earnest innocence.• He was lively, witty and darkly handsome - the exact opposite of George.• Sam was a darkly handsome young man.• Her eyes turned darkly serious as she began to talk about her troubled past.• The strong tendons in his darkly tanned hand sprang into relief as he lifted the pot.

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