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

An unglamorous job greasing engines.
给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.
午餐绝非令人想望的事情。
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。