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

• not challenging
  1. an unglamorous job greasing engines
  Synonym:commonplacehumdrumprosaicunglamourous

双语例句

• 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。
• The result: the new investor class is losing its appetite for risk and is parking its cash in unglamorous, low-yielding money-market funds and bank savings accounts.
  结果，新的投资群体逐渐丧失了风险投资欲，把资金转向了毫无吸引力、收益率低的货币市场基金和银行储蓄。
• 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。
• 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's much-lauded Mittelstand companies have succeeded through foresight and by specialising in the unglamorous business of making parts for complex final products.
  德国备受称赞的中小型企业的成功是因为它们有远见，并在制造复杂最终产物的元部件的单调生意上有所专长。
• Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
  午餐绝非令人想望的事情。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。