unglamorous
英 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
美 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
adj. 无魅力的; 不刺激的; 枯燥的
BNC.33308 / COCA.25480
牛津词典
adj.
- 无魅力的；不刺激的；枯燥的
not attractive or exciting; dull- an unglamorous job
乏味的工作
- an unglamorous job
英英释义
adj
- not challenging
- an unglamorous job greasing engines
双语例句
- He squeezed working capital, an unglamorous tactic that pays handsomely.
此外，他还压缩了营运资本，这种策略看似平常，却能得到丰厚的回报。 - The arrest of Sergey aleynikov, a former Goldman Sachs employee at the centre of a criminal case involving the unsanctioned downloading of sophisticated trading software codes, has thrust the largely unglamorous world of computerised equity trading into the spotlight.
原高盛（goldmansachs）员工谢尔盖阿列尼科夫（sergeyaleynikov）因涉嫌私自下载尖端交易软件代码而被捕，这成为一桩刑事案件的核心，令人们关注起大体上乏味无趣的计算机化股票交易问题。 - What these companies also have in common are unglamorous surroundings.
这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调。 - 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。 - This is all pretty unglamorous stuff, you could say better, though, than the alternative.
你会说，这些措施听上去都相当乏味，但总比其它选择都要好。 - The result: the new investor class is losing its appetite for risk and is parking its cash in unglamorous, low-yielding money-market funds and bank savings accounts.
结果，新的投资群体逐渐丧失了风险投资欲，把资金转向了毫无吸引力、收益率低的货币市场基金和银行储蓄。 - Once cars lose speed and power, they become unglamorous everyday tools, like washing machines, and nobody, presumably, derives status from their washing machine.
一旦汽车失去了速度和超强动力，它们就变成了洗衣机似的单调乏味的日用工具。我想，没人靠洗衣机体现自身社会地位。 - Looking back at my first job, even when I was asked to do something seemingly menial, unglamorous, or very difficult, I always went all in.
回顾我的第一份工作，即便我被要求去做一些看似很卑微、单调或者非常困难的事情时，我也会全力以赴。 - The unglamorous sibling of the gondola; these no-frills boats get passengers from one side of the canal to the other for a meagre fee.
这些无装饰的船只将乘客从运河的一边送到另一边，只收取很少的费用。 - The enterprise side is much less visible and frankly a little unglamorous, but just as important as the consumer side.
相比之下，企业软件市场没有如此引人注目，坦率地说甚至有点乏善可陈，但仍然和消费科技领域同等重要。