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

• 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。
• An unglamorous job greasing engines.
  给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Unglamorous, usually unexciting and normally invisible, the world's financial plumbing is gummed up.
  毫不张扬地，通常是悄无声息地，全球金融流通管道堵塞了。
• Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all in.
  回顾我的第一份工作，即便我被要求去做一些看似很卑微、单调或者非常困难的事情时，我也会全力以赴。
• 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。