英语释义

• lacking brightness or color; dull;

  "drab faded curtains"

  "sober Puritan gray"

  "children in somber brown clothes"

• lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;

  "her drab personality"

  "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"

  "a series of dreary dinner parties"

• depressing in character or appearance;

  "drove through dingy streets"

  "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens

  "drab old buildings"

  "a dreary mining town"

  "gloomy tenements"

  "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams

片语

Brian Drab分析师布莱恩·德拉布

LOLIVE DRAB橄榄色

Drab louse故在英语中又称蟹虱

drab lives乏味的生活

Drab soil褐色土

Olie drab橄榄土褐色

Drab Little小天地

dribs and drabs点点滴滴；片断

英汉例句

• now the bar where i「d spent so many amusing nights, playing cards and drinking too much, was no more than a roundabout surrounded by drab office blocks.

  我当时曾喜欢在一家酒吧打牌酗酒，开心地度过夜晚的时光。现在这家酒吧也无影无蹤了，变成一个环形路口，周围是单调乏味的办公街区。

• as we sit and talk in his drab office on a sweltering summer afternoon, he」s chain-smoking unfiltered camels and wearing jeans, a gold stud earring, and black high-top keds sneakers with no laces.

  在一个闷热的夏日午后，我们坐在他那单调乏味的办公室倾谈。他戴着金耳环，身穿牛仔裤，脚踏一双keds黑色高帮无系带胶底球鞋，还一根接一根地抽着骆驼牌（camels）无过滤嘴香烟。

• the museum, a fine addition to a somewhat drab skyline, is best seen at nightfall or under grey skies, says its architect, christian de portzamparc.

  博物馆的设计师克里斯蒂安·德·波特赞姆巴克（christiandeportzamparc）介绍说，博物馆为有些单调的天际增添了一抹亮色，它在傍晚和阴天时尤为迷人。

• he complained that the problem with writing about his own country was that 「the slot between fantastic and drab seems too narrow」, and yet rabbit could have been born of no other earth.

  他抱怨道，写自己的国家会有个问题就是「精彩和单调之间的差异太小」，然而兔子又不能出生在别的地方。

• soviet russia: an intellectual wasteland characterized by crushing cold, drab colors and omnipresent fear… or was it?

  苏俄：知识分子的荒原，极度严寒，色彩单调，恐惧无所不在……真的是这样吗？

• in his previous job mr hennequin established a 「design studio」 in france to spruce up his company's drab restaurants and adapt the interior to local tastes.

  在此前的工作中，亨内昆还在法国创建了「设计工作室」，用来装饰单调的麦当劳餐厅和修改内部装修使其更适合当地风格。

• 「it used to be dark and drab in here, 」 waters says.

  「以前这里昏暗单调，」waters说。

• neither the drab modernity of the suburbs nor the beautiful buildings in the centre hint that cambridge is at the heart of one of britain’s biggest clusters of high-tech businesses.

  剑桥无论是单调而现代的郊区，还是满是漂亮建筑物的市中心，都无法让人察觉到这里其实是英国最大的高新科技商业中心。

• just two decades ago, shops had surly staff offering a few drab items, often locked safely away in glass cases.

  就在20年前，商店里还满是蛮横的员工，仅提供少数单调的商品，而且还通常远离顾客的安全地锁在玻璃橱柜里。

• you might use courier, but i think it makes the page look drab and gives the impression that it was written on an old typewriter.

  您可能使用的是courier 字体，但是我认为它会使页面看起来非常单调，并且让人觉得好像是用古老的打印机输出来的。

• hotel bands were replaced with drab synthesisers.

  之后，酒店里的乐团便消失了，取而代之的是合成器中单调乏味的音乐。

• italians are probably the best at wearing color--you would be hard pressed to see people there wearing dark, drab colors.

  意大利人在衣服颜色的选择方面是最出众的，你可能不会看到任何一个意大利人穿黑色或者土褐色的衣服。

• the reason behind this was that at that time it was a radical and revitalizing departure from the conventional drab box on wheels that it replaced.

  当年喜欢它的原因是因为那副在当时看来不同凡响且妙手回春的设计，从单调保守得可称做四轮盒子的前辈中脱胎而来。

• researchers at england’s university of saint andrews say that photosynthetic life on such a planet might end up as a drab black or gray. or even with a high spf.

  英国圣安德鲁大学的研究人员表示,在这样的行星上, 植物的光合作用结果只会是呈单调的黑色或者灰色,甚至是更深的颜色.

• the price tag for the hybrid is $27, 500 -- a not inconsiderable sum for a car that has been as criticized for its drab interior and dull exterior.

  思域混动版的价格为27,500美元。很多人批评这款小车内饰单调，外型老旧，因此对于这样一款小车来说，27,500美元可不是一个小数目。

• the canal’s drab green water rolled along beside us, offering sharp relief to the open desert beyond.

  在这片空旷无垠的沙漠上，运河那单调的绿波在我们身边翻腾，给我们带来了莫大的宽慰。

• but it makes a change from the usual drab meeting rooms.

  但它仍然改变了以往单调的会议形式。

• dinosaur fossils are mostly drab collections of mineralized bones.

  绝大多数恐龙化石都只是些土褐色的石化的骨头。

• it seems like the drab world of c-like, imperative, curly braces languages might be spiced up by a variety of paradigms.

  似乎与c语言一样具有单调命令式和括号的语言都可以使用不同的范式形成。

• holding business meetings in a simulated environment is not quite as glamorous as the depictions of virtual reality found in science fiction. but it makes a change from the usual drab meeting rooms.

  在模拟的环境下举行商业会议并不像科学小说中描述的虚拟现实那样美妙，但是对于单调的会议室而言，它有了些改变。

相似词

flatad （尤指贴着另一表面）平直地；断然地；水平地；直接地，完全地

lifeless无生命的；死气沉沉的；无趣味的

unattractive不美丽的；不吸引人的；令人反感的

dull钝的；迟钝的；无趣的；呆滞的；阴暗的