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
- Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
午餐绝非令人想望的事情。 - 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 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。 - Germany has belatedly discovered that its sober, solid and deliberately unglamorous leader is really the person calling the shots across the continent.
德国人终于迟钝地发现,他们这位冷静、可靠、故意显得毫无光彩的领导人,实际上是整个欧洲的发号施令者。 - But there are some good guys in the microbial world& bugs that do the unglamorous work of keeping us regular and helping to relieve a range of disorders from diarrhea to irritable bowel syndrome ( IBS).
实际上在微生物界中有一些好虫子的,它们做着枯燥无聊的工作来维持我们的身体正常运转,还能预防从腹泻到肠道紊乱综合症的病症。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - An unglamorous job greasing engines.
给机器加润滑油的单调工作。 - 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。