2. There was a
lurid , gloomy canopy above; the elm-trees drooped their heavy blackish green.

上面是一片苍白又阴郁的苍穹;榆树枝叶郁郁苍苍地低垂下来。
3. The Washington gossip circuit was awash with increasingly
lurid accounts of his frequently bizarre sexual behaviour.

华盛顿的绯闻圈里不断积累着关于他频繁奇特的性行为的传闻。