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 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• An unglamorous job greasing engines.
  给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
• This is all pretty unglamorous stuff, you could say better, though, than the alternative.
  你会说，这些措施听上去都相当乏味，但总比其它选择都要好。
• 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。
• 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 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。