drab
英 [dræb]
美 [dræb]
adj. 单调乏味的; 无光彩的; 无生气的
复数:drabs 比较级:drabber 最高级:drabbest
Collins.1 / BNC.11332 / COCA.15038
牛津词典
adj.
- 单调乏味的;无光彩的;无生气的
without interest or colour; dull and boring- a cold drab little office
冷冰冰的小办公室 - drab women, dressed in browns and greys
身着棕灰二色衣服毫无光彩的女人
- a cold drab little office
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 单调乏味的;缺乏生气的
If you describe something asdrab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience.- Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。 - ...his drab little office...
他死气沉沉的小办公室 - The rest of the day's activities often seemed drab or depressing.
一天的剩余时光好像常常是乏味或令人沮丧的。
- Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
- See also:dribs and drabs
英英释义
noun
- a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown
adj
- causing dejection
- a blue day
- the dark days of the war
- a week of rainy depressing weather
- a disconsolate winter landscape
- the first dismal dispiriting days of November
- a dark gloomy day
- grim rainy weather
- of a light brownish green color
- lacking brightness or color
- drab faded curtains
- sober Puritan grey
- 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
双语例句
- Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab.
指一种与草黄色类似的黄褐色。 - How dull and drab the life is!
生活是如此单调而乏味! - The decorations for the games have lent a splash of colour to an otherwise drab city.
为运动会所作的装扮给原本毫无生气的城市增添了一抹亮色。 - I see one world, but not a world drab in its uniformity but one enriched by its diversity.
我看到一个大同世界,但不是单调的清一色世界,而是一个丰富的多样化的世界。 - It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage, and made those walls dissolve away.
就像一只美丽的鸟儿,振翅飞离了禁锢它的藩篱,溶化了那些高墙。 - Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。 - Life was now drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas.
比起海外那种更富有刺激的生活方式来,现在的生活显得了无生气。 - We went into the drab old building.
我们走进那栋单调乏味的古老建筑物。 - It was very beautiful, blue, minus the sun would drab.
天很漂亮,蓝蓝的,只是少了太阳就单调了。 - Midday sun streamed into the drab little room which gave it a sudden cheerfulness.
中午的阳光射入这间毫无生气的小屋,突然给了它一种快乐的气氛。