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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• He squeezed working capital, an unglamorous tactic that pays handsomely.
  此外，他还压缩了营运资本，这种策略看似平常，却能得到丰厚的回报。
• 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。
• Profit-starved hedge fund managers, best known as masters of the financial universe, are turning to an unlikely place for their next windfall: the unglamorous world of long-only asset management.
  享有金融世界主宰者之称的对冲基金经理人因苦于无法获得利润，纷纷转向一个人们意料之外的领域寻找发大财的机会：貌似平淡无奇的单边做多资产管理领域。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。