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- an unglamorous job
乏味的工作
- an unglamorous job
英英释义
adj
- not challenging
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
双语例句
- 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。 - 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。 - The arrest of Sergey aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs employee at the centre of a criminal case involving the unsanctioned downloading of sophisticated trading software codes, has thrust the largely unglamorous world of computerised equity trading into the spotlight.
原高盛(goldmansachs)员工谢尔盖阿列尼科夫(sergeyaleynikov)因涉嫌私自下载尖端交易软件代码而被捕,这成为一桩刑事案件的核心,令人们关注起大体上乏味无趣的计算机化股票交易问题。 - Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
午餐绝非令人想望的事情。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。