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
- 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。 - 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。 - 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 the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.
但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业，纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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。 - 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 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。