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。
• The enterprise side is much less visible and frankly a little unglamorous, but just as important as the consumer side.
  相比之下，企业软件市场没有如此引人注目，坦率地说甚至有点乏善可陈，但仍然和消费科技领域同等重要。
• 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。
• 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。
• Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
  午餐绝非令人想望的事情。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。