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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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 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。
• 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。
• An unglamorous job greasing engines.
  给机器加润滑油的单调工作。
• 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。
• 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。