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
- For their roles in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Burton and Taylor for the first time in their careers dared to appear as unglamorous, disheveled and overweight characters.
在《谁害怕沃基尼娅·伍尔夫》一片中,泰勒和伯顿首次饰演外形不好看又发福的角色。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.
这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边,只收取很少的费用。 - 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。 - 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。