英语释义

• dealing only with concrete facts

• deficient in originality or creativity; lacking powers of invention;

  "a sterile ideology lacking in originality"

  "unimaginative development of a musical theme"

  "uninspired writing"

• lacking spontaneity or originality or individuality;

  "stereotyped phrases of condolence"

  "even his profanity was unimaginative"

片语

bored使厌烦（bore的过去式）；烦扰

dull钝的；迟钝的；无趣的；呆滞的；阴暗的

英汉例句

• i think the wilfully unimaginative see more monsters. they are often more afraid.

  我认为不愿展开想像的人会看到更多的怪兽，他们往往更感到更害怕。

• what is more disappointing in mr romney is the gap between his lofty aim of perpetual american ascendancy and his unimaginative means.

  更让我们失望的是罗姆尼先生那崇高的美国拥有长期支配地位的目标和他缺乏想象力的方案之间的差距。

• a year later, echoing the sentiment of the times, reeves wrote a book arguing that 「ford is slow. he is also unimaginative and not very articulate.」

  过了一年，作为那个时代的一种回声，芮福斯又写了一本书，书中写道：「福特不但愚笨，而且缺乏想象力，说话结结巴巴。」

• on one hand, it would certainly be original when compared to the other dull and unimaginative mailboxes lining the street.

  一方面，和街道里其他枯燥和缺乏想象力的邮箱比这肯定会是很好的创意。

• example: the innovative young engineer quit his unimaginative old company in order to find a product design firm that allowed him more room to maneuver.

  为了找到一家能给他更多自由空间的产品设计机构，这个具有创新精神的年轻工程师离开了原来那家缺乏想象力的公司。

• english is a colorful language, but chronic cursers repeatedly use the same, unimaginative words that have been around for centuries.

  英语是一种多姿多彩的语言，但是谩骂者也使用着同样的语言，他们使用那些无趣的词语已经长达几个世纪。

• lexus has been promising to do something about its unimaginative design but has been unable to live up to its own standards or the demands of conquest customers.

  雷克萨斯的设计一贯缺乏想象力，雷克萨斯也一直承诺要改变这种局面，但是却一直达不到自己定下的标準，也无法满足忠实顾客的要求。

• yet cohen says reforms won't succeed until the art of teaching is transformed 「from a largely routine and unimaginative practice into an intellectually ambitious and adventurous enterprise.」

  但是，科恩表示，除非将教学的艺术从「墨守成规、缺乏想象力的机械实践变成一种在学术上有远大志向、有进取精神的事业」，否则教学改革就无法取得成功。

• he is an unimaginative teacher.

  他是个缺乏想像力的老师。

• unimaginative scientists don’t produce radically new ideas.

  没有想象力的科学家无法有全新的想法。

• being unimaginative boys, they called themselves 「the eagles」 and 「the rattlers」 but as--what happened was, being separated they developed distinctive cultures.

  这些没什么想象力的小男孩就把队伍取名为,「老鹰」和「响尾蛇」,接着，分组以后,他们就形成了各自的文化。

• he is an unimaginative individual who does everything by the book.

  他是个一切照章办事，缺乏想象力的人。

• only a few decades ago the prevailing worry was that television, the reigning medium at the time, was creating a generation of unimaginative couch potatoes, if not intellectual vegetables.

  仅在几十年前，人们最担心的是电视——那个时代主要的媒体——创造出了毫无想象力的「沙发土豆」一代，幸好不是智能上的植物人。

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