英语释义

• so lacking in interest as to cause mental weariness;

  "a boring evening with uninteresting people"

  "the deadening effect of some routine tasks"

  "a dull play"

  "his competent but dull performance"

  "a ho-hum speaker who couldn't capture their attention"

  "what an irksome task the writing of long letters is"- Edmund Burke

  "tedious days on the train"

  "the tiresome chirping of a cricket"- Mark Twain

  "other people's dreams are dreadfully wearisome"

英汉例句

• but it is the element of imagination that transforms designs from ho-hum to delightful.

  但是要想把设计从沉闷乏味变得令人愉快就要依靠想象力。

• starting the day off with english sure makes for a ho-hum day.

  如果一早就有英文课，这一整天肯定无聊透顶。

• as i began telling him about my actual childhood, i discovered that my life hadn「t been as ho-hum as i」d always thought.

  当我开始告诉他有关我真正童年的一些事时，我发现我的生活不再像我总想象的那么沉闷了。

• you cannot come into this game with a ho-hum attitude.

  你绝对不能抱着无精打采的态度来对待这场比赛。

• along the way, it even sprinkled a little hollywood pixie dust on the ho-hum mattress business, hiring dorothy lamour and maureen o’hara to plug its products.

  一路走来，公司甚至还在自己的床垫上铺洒了好莱坞的仙尘，邀请dorothylamour和maureeno`hara来宣传自己的产品。

• since dawn has been traveling slow relative to vesta, the orbit capture was a ho-hum event.

  而「黎明号」就灶神星的相对飞行速度较慢，所以并不用担心其会脱轨。

• i mean the nagging sense that the company will never be anything more than ok, just another ho-hum player in its field.

  我说的是一种纠结困惑的感觉，就是这家公司在同领域永远都是差强人意、无足轻重。

• monday may have seemed another ho-hum day on wall street. but appearances can be deceiving.

  周一对华尔街来说似乎又是百无聊赖的一天。但表面现象可能是骗人的。

• thus, brennan said, male ducks are 「prudent. 」 in a crowd, a ho-hum male apparently doesn「t bother sustaining a big investment in tissue that」s not going to pay off.

  因此，布瑞南总结说，雄性棕硬尾鸭很懂得「谨慎投资」：在群体中没有竞争力的雄性，既已清楚无望交配，也就懒得浪费大量精力去维持没搞头的性器官了。

• if it sounds ho-hum to you , it will to others too .

  如果它听起来浩哼声这对于你们来说，将他人太。

• looking different is a great way to jump start a ho-hum day.

  给自己打扮打扮（看起来不同）是给平淡的日子充充电的好办法。

• do you sound like a dynamic worker any company would be thrilled to have, or like a ho-hum employee?

  是否听起来像一个令任何公司发寒的机器人或者像一个无精打采的雇员？

• the cruze replaces the ho-hum chevy cobalt, which just couldn「t compete with other small cars in its class.

  科鲁兹取代了无法与其它同类小型车竞争的考伯特（ho-humchevycobalt）。

• shipping in 1985 to a ho-hum reception, this was such a joke that microsoft itself put on a public roast when it finally rolled out the product.

  1985年发布的这个产品只有很少人接受，当微软最终开始推广该产品的时候，它将其自身放在公众的考验之下，这简直是个笑话。

• people will view you as someone who is not convincing if you seem ho-hum about your opportunity .

  人们的看法，因为你的人是不能令人信服的，如果你似乎浩哼声约你的机会。

• so it」s expected to have a ho-hum holiday performance.

  所以预计它在假日期间的表现会十分黯淡。

• these days? nah, that's just the ho-hum daily volatility in the oil market.

  而这些天来，这种程度的波幅在原油市场上已不足为奇。

• president obama’s state of the union address was a ho-hum affair.

  奥巴马总统的国情咨文讲话是一件乏味无聊的事件。

相似词

colorless无色的；苍白的；无趣味的

相反词

absorbing十分有趣的；引人入胜的

engaging参加（engage的ing形式）；保证；雇用

engrossing使全神贯注（engross的ing形式）

gripping扣人心弦（grip的ing形式）；握紧

interesting有趣的；引起兴趣的，令人关注的

intriguing引起…的兴趣；策划阴谋；私通（intrigue的ing形式）

involving涉及；包括；使陷于（involve的ing形式）

riveting吸引人的