vapid

英 [ˈvæpɪd]

美 [ˈvæpɪd]

adj.  乏味的; 枯燥的; 愚蠢的

GRE

BNC.37781 / COCA.26818

牛津词典

adj.

• 乏味的；枯燥的；愚蠢的
  lacking interest or intelligence

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 乏味的;枯燥的;无趣的
  If you describe someone or something asvapid, you are critical of them because they are dull and uninteresting.
  1. ...the Minister's young and rather vapid wife...
     部长年轻无趣的妻子
  2. She made a vapid comment about the weather.
     她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。

英英释义

adj

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  1. a vapid conversation
  2. a vapid smile
  3. a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
• lacking taste or flavor or tang
  1. a bland diet
  2. insipid hospital food
  3. flavorless supermarket tomatoes
  4. vapid beer
  5. vapid tea
  Synonym:blandflatflavorlessflavourlessinsipidsavorlesssavourless

双语例句

• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• Due to lack of proper guidance, many students just brace themselves and swallow to learn the vapid foreign words by note. As a result, regardless of wasting a lot of time and effort, the efficiency is low.
  由于缺乏正确的指导，很多同学往往只是硬着头皮不分主次、囫囵吞枣地死记硬背那些干巴巴的外语单词，结果时间花了不少，工夫下了很多，但效果却其微。
• I'm not willing to waste two days arguing with a bunch of vapid schoolgirls.
  我不愿意浪费两天时间跟一帮令人厌烦的女学生争论。
• Vapid prose apart, Drucker himself could have drafted that press release.
  如果不是因为行文枯燥乏味，这篇新闻稿简直就像是出自德鲁克本人之手。
• There is a pervasive sense that not only jobs but also power, wealth, ideas and national identity itself are migrating, permanently and at disarming speed, to leave a vapid grandeur on the banks of the Seine.
  人们普遍感觉，正以惊人的速度永远离法国而去的不只是工作机会，还有权力、财富乃至国家认同感本身，遗留在塞纳河岸的唯有空洞乏味的的伟大。
• This simulation environment provides manifold control algorithms to ship motion such as PID, intelligent PID, VAPID, neuron-PID, and fuzzy logic control and multi-mode controller with tuning parameters.
  操作者可对PID、智能PID、变参数PID、变结构PID、神经PID、模糊控制和多模态控制算法的控制参数进行调整。
• A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.
  提到老大哥，温斯顿的脸上便了无生气地掠过了一丝向往的表情。
• I'm so sick of the word "good"; it is so stale and vapid!
  “善”这个词令我十分恶心；它是如此陈腐，如此索然无味！