drab是什么意思？

drab

英[dræb] 美[dræb]

• adj. 单调的，土褐色的；
• n. 乏味，单调，无生气；
• vi. 嫖妓；

比较级：drabber;

最高级：drabbest;

名词：drabness;

例句

• 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。
• drab colours 单调的颜色
• They seemed to be a drab assortment of mediocrities. 他们看起来像一批毫不起眼的碌碌庸才.
• In the Middle Ages the term "drab" denoted a very simple type of woollen cloth which was used by peasants to make their clothes. 中世纪时，drab（“本色布”）一词指的是一种农民用来制衣的非常普通的羊毛织物。
• There are many drab houses in the Smokey mining town. 在这个采煤的小镇上有许多黑褐色的房子.
• The train moved slowly south through flat , drab mainline scenery. 火车穿行干线两侧风光单调寡味的地域,徐徐地向南驶去.
• The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night. 这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。
• The rest of the day'sactivities 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。
• Boston's traditional drab brick was slow to yield to the modern glass palaces of so many American urban areas. 波士顿传统而单调的砖石建筑并没有迅速被许多美国城市地区流行的现代玻璃大厦所取代。
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  单调乏味的;缺乏生气的
  If you describe something as drab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience.
  例句
  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

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  无生气的,乏味的,单调的
  drab colours 单调的颜色 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。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. 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"
  2. lacking brightness or color; dull;
  "drab faded curtains""sober Puritan gray""children in somber brown clothes"
  3. depressing in character or appearance;
  "drove through dingy streets""the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens"drab old buildings""a dreary mining town""gloomy tenements""sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams