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- an unglamorous job
乏味的工作
- an unglamorous job
英英释义
adj
- not challenging
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
双语例句
- 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。 - Mango is aiming at an unglamorous market, the unbanked.
芒果金融定位于一个单调的市场,即无银行账号的人。 - The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.
这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边,只收取很少的费用。 - What these companies also have in common are unglamorous surroundings.
这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调。 - The enterprise side is much less visible and frankly a little unglamorous, but just as important as the consumer side.
相比之下,企业软件市场没有如此引人注目,坦率地说甚至有点乏善可陈,但仍然和消费科技领域同等重要。 - 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。 - For decades, iron ore was plentiful, prices were stable and mining the commodity was a monotonous and unglamorous business.
在长达数十年中,铁矿石储量丰富,价格稳定,开采这种大宗商品是一个单调乏味的行当。 - And unglamorous suburbs like Fangshan and Tongzhou will be designated as 'hubs' for specific industries, like petrochemicals and 'cultural industries,' respectively.
房山和通州等不太繁荣的郊区将被定为特定行业的中心,比如房山和通州将分别被规划为石油化工和文化产业中心。 - But fundamentally, it performs an unglamorous function in a utilitarian way.
但是基本上,它还是功利性地扮演一个没有趣味的功能角色。