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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

    • 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。
    • It is relatively slow, unglamorous and, assuming the rest of the journey is by car, not even environmentally friendly.
      渡轮速度相对较慢,单调乏味,一般剩下的旅程还得坐车,渡轮甚至还不环保。
    • 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。
    • 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。
    • An unglamorous job greasing engines.
      给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
    • Even in the case of an API or a similarly unglamorous set of functions, someone else cares: a partner development team, a consuming application team, whomever.
      即使是关于API或者类似单调的功能,也会有人关心:一个合伙开发团队,一个激进的应用团队,或者其他人。
    • The arrest of Sergey aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs employee at the centre of a criminal case involving the unsanctioned downloading of sophisticated trading software codes, has thrust the largely unglamorous world of computerised equity trading into the spotlight.
      原高盛(goldmansachs)员工谢尔盖阿列尼科夫(sergeyaleynikov)因涉嫌私自下载尖端交易软件代码而被捕,这成为一桩刑事案件的核心,令人们关注起大体上乏味无趣的计算机化股票交易问题。
    • 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。
    • Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible, the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.
      毫不张扬地,通常是悄无声息地,全球金融流通管道堵塞了。