drab
英 [dræb]
美 [dræb]
adj. 单调乏味的; 无光彩的; 无生气的
复数:drabs 比较级:drabber 最高级:drabbest
Collins.1 / BNC.11332 / COCA.15038
牛津词典
adj.
- 单调乏味的;无光彩的;无生气的
without interest or colour; dull and boring- a cold drab little office
冷冰冰的小办公室 - drab women, dressed in browns and greys
身着棕灰二色衣服毫无光彩的女人
- a cold drab little office
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 单调乏味的;缺乏生气的
If you describe something asdrab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience.- Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。 - ...his drab little office...
他死气沉沉的小办公室 - The rest of the day's activities often seemed drab or depressing.
一天的剩余时光好像常常是乏味或令人沮丧的。
- Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
- See also:dribs and drabs
英英释义
noun
- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
adj
- causing dejection
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather
- of a light brownish green color
- lacking brightness or color
- drab faded curtains
- sober Puritan grey
- children in somber brown clothes
- lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
- her drab personality
- life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
- a series of dreary dinner parties
双语例句
- Are you drab without me? it will be so drab. so, you need treat me better.
没有我你闷不闷?一定会闷坏你。所以,你要对我好一点。 - Love life for the unattached would be low on activity and drab at times.
单身的爱的生活将是低活性和单调的。 - Under the new laws, tobacco products will be sold in dark brown, drab packaging from mid-2012.
根据这项新法,从2012年年中开始,烟草产品将以土褐色的包装出售。 - An attorney's life was drab compared with the riskier but more exciting career of a barrister.
比起辩护律师更具风险但更激动人心的生涯来,诉状律师的生活就显得单调乏味了。 - Their lives seem so drab.
他们的生活似乎很单调乏味。 - Midday sun streamed into the drab little room which gave it a sudden cheerfulness.
中午的阳光射入这间毫无生气的小屋,突然给了它一种快乐的气氛。 - I feel so drab in this grey uniform.
这件灰色的制服,我觉得没有光彩。 - Life was now drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas.
比起海外那种更富有刺激的生活方式来,现在的生活显得了无生气。 - The phosphorus fertilizer and farmyard manure had the best effects on maize yield in Drab Fluvo-aquic soil.
相关分析表明,在褐潮土上增施磷肥和有机肥对提高玉米产量具有重要的作用。 - How dull and drab the life is!
生活是如此单调而乏味!