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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• An unglamorous job greasing engines.
  给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
• Profit-starved hedge fund managers, best known as masters of the financial universe, are turning to an unlikely place for their next windfall: the unglamorous world of long-only asset management.
  享有金融世界主宰者之称的对冲基金经理人因苦于无法获得利润，纷纷转向一个人们意料之外的领域寻找发大财的机会：貌似平淡无奇的单边做多资产管理领域。