| 词汇 | dismal swamp |
| 词源 | Dismal Swamp. A large swampy area of about 600 square miles extending from southeastern Virginia into northwestern North Carolina. It is also called “the Dismal,” and its residents are called “Dismalites.” Dismal serves, too, as the name of any American swamp, all of which are lonely, forbidding places. |
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