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unglamorous

英 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]

美 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]

adj.  无魅力的; 不刺激的; 枯燥的

BNC.33308 / COCA.25480

牛津词典

    adj.

    • 无魅力的;不刺激的;枯燥的
      not attractive or exciting; dull
      1. an unglamorous job
        乏味的工作

    英英释义

    adj

    双语例句

    • An unglamorous job greasing engines.
      给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
    • Bruce's office is a corner one, utilitarian and unglamorous.
      布鲁斯的办公室在角落里,实用而普通。
    • Once cars lose speed and power, they become unglamorous everyday tools, like washing machines, and nobody, presumably, derives status from their washing machine.
      一旦汽车失去了速度和超强动力,它们就变成了洗衣机似的单调乏味的日用工具。我想,没人靠洗衣机体现自身社会地位。
    • Germany has belatedly discovered that its sober, solid and deliberately unglamorous leader is really the person calling the shots across the continent.
      德国人终于迟钝地发现,他们这位冷静、可靠、故意显得毫无光彩的领导人,实际上是整个欧洲的发号施令者。
    • For their roles in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Burton and Taylor for the first time in their careers dared to appear as unglamorous, disheveled and overweight characters.
      在《谁害怕沃基尼娅·伍尔夫》一片中,泰勒和伯顿首次饰演外形不好看又发福的角色。
    • Their work is hard and unglamorous, and most people would find it boring.
      他们的工作又累又平淡,多数人会认为很乏味。
    • In the former Soviet Union, grapes were grown from Moldova to Tajikistan and transformed into wine with maximum efficiency but minimum attention to quality. Half-made wine, stuffed full of preservatives, was transported to unglamorous bottling plants near the major cities.
      在前苏联,葡萄种植区从摩尔多瓦到塔吉克斯坦,这些葡萄通过效益最大化、同时完全无视质量的方式变成了酒。添加大量防腐剂的葡萄酒半成品,被运送到大城市附近乏善可陈的瓶装工厂。
    • But there are some good guys in the microbial world& bugs that do the unglamorous work of keeping us regular and helping to relieve a range of disorders from diarrhea to irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS).
      实际上在微生物界中有一些好虫子的,它们做着枯燥无聊的工作来维持我们的身体正常运转,还能预防从腹泻到肠道紊乱综合症的病症。
    • Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
      午餐绝非令人想望的事情。
    • But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.
      但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业,纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。