萧条
xiāotiáo
adjectiveHSK 7-9
“Bleak” in Chinese is 萧条 (xiāotiáo).
Meaning
- bleak; desolate
- (economics) in a slump; sluggish; depressed
Example
在十九世纪三十年代的大萧条时期，许多富人在股市崩盘中失去了一切。
During the Depression in the 1930's, many wealthy people lost everything in the stock market crash.
Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).
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