英语释义

• not challenging; dull and lacking excitement;

  "an unglamorous job greasing engines"

片语

monotonous单调的，无抑扬顿挫的；无变化的

blank(Blank)人名；(法)布朗克；(英、德、西、俄、罗、捷、瑞典、芬)布兰克

flatad （尤指贴着另一表面）平直地；断然地；水平地；直接地，完全地

stupid傻瓜，笨蛋

英汉例句

• That took long, hard, boring hours on the training field, and players who were willing to perform unglamorous tasks for the good of the team.

  二人设想的实现，需要在训练场上付出长期而枯燥的努力，球员也必须为了球队利益牺牲自我，默默无闻地执行任务。

• On the other hand, value investors, knowing that the market ignores unglamorous industries, seek out stocks such as Knoll in hopes of finding an undervalued gem.

  而另一方面，价值投资者知道市场会忽视一些平凡的行业，所以他们会挑选象Knoll这样的股票，以希望找到一颗被低估的宝石。

• The West「s bottom-of-the-pyramid companies are an unglamorous bunch. Many rely on poorly educated shift workers. Some inhabit the nether world of loan sharks and bail bondsmen.

  西方国家面向金字塔底层的公司是一个不起眼的群体，很多都雇佣文化层次低的轮班工人，还有些更是生活在高利贷和中间担保人的阴影下。

• She knew about its unglamorous side, the hard work and, especially, the risks.

  她知道其乏味和辛劳的一面，尤其是所冒的风险。

• In an under-funded Harvard laboratory, the dogged, unglamorous slog towards finding a cure for cancer is under way.

  在哈佛大学一个资金不足的实验室里，科学家们为了找到一种治疗癌癥的方法，正默默无闻、坚持不懈地辛勤工作。

• 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。

• But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right. It takes an age, for example, to enforce a contract in the country」s courts.

  但政府仍然好大喜功，而且迟迟做不好那些司空见惯的事，比如这个国家的法庭耗时甚长才使一个合同被强制执行。

• There is a strong case for investment in the unglamorous but vital water and sanitation sector.

  有个案例有效地说明了这一点——投资看似普通但却至关重要的水资源和卫生部门。

• German companies have excelled at seeking out unglamorous but profitable niches, and then focusing relentlessly on being the best.

  德国公司擅长发现不起眼但利润可观的利基市场，然后非常专注地做到最好。

• 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。

• Mango is aiming at an unglamorous market, the unbanked.

  芒果财政的目标指向一个乏味的市场——无银行账户的群体。

• The 29-year-old plays for the unglamorous Sevilla in Spain.

  这名二十九岁的球员效力于西班牙的塞维利亚俱乐部。

• They were confined to low-earth orbit, where they did the unglamorous job of launching satellites or ferrying astronauts to the International Space Station.

  他们仅限于在近地轨道运行，在那做着发射卫星或运送宇航员到国际空间站这样毫无任何浪漫色彩的工作。

• These back-office processes are arcane, unglamorous and too often taken for granted-until things go wrong, when their importance becomes painfully apparent.

  这些后勤程序鲜为人知，乏味单调且常常被认为是天经地义的。知道出现问题，它们的重要性才会毫不留情地体现出来。

• Jackson is also asking Bynum to play an unglamorous role even though Bynum is up for a contract extension.

  杰克逊还让安猪去打一个很单调的的角色，尽管安猪现在还在续约的事伤脑筋。

• We are not in the market for jewelry, purses, or unconventional forms of transportation. We are here on an unglamorous mission to replace the batteries in three watches.

  我们去那不是买首饰、包包或者不怎么样的交通工具，而是为了一件不怎么光彩的差事，为三只手表换电池。

• Sinopec」s mostly a downstream refinery business, doing the unglamorous work of turning unprocessed crude oil into fuel, and its options for expansion are limited.

  中石化的业务大多是下游的炼油业务，做的是把未加工的原油转化为燃料的毫不出彩的工作，扩张业务的选择有限。