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

• 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。
• 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。
• Even in the exciting, leading-edge world of innovation, unglamorous management basics matter.
  即便在一个激动人心且技术领先的创新世界里，单调的管理学基本原则仍然发挥着重要作用。
• 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。
• 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。
• What these companies also have in common are unglamorous surroundings.
  这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调。
• 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 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。