unglamorous

美 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]英 [ʌnˈɡlæmərəs]
  • adj.枯燥的;无魅力的;不刺激的
unglamorousunglamorous

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

glamorous

adj

1
not challenging;dull and lacking excitement
an unglamorous job greasing engines
Synonym: commonplace humdrum prosaic unglamourous

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  1. such unglamorous work demonstrates their commitment to their country 's environment .

    如此枯燥的工作证明了他们对祖国环境事业所肩负的责任

  2. Their work is hard and unglamorous , and most people would find it boring .

    他们的工作又累又平淡,多数人会认为很乏味。

  3. Bruce 's office is a corner one , utilitarian and unglamorous .

    布鲁斯的办公室在角落里,实用而普通。

  4. 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。

  5. Avoid public transport at all costs , it 's far too unglamorous .

    不惜一切代价避免公共交通工具,这让你显得太没有魅力了。

  6. Even in the exciting , leading-edge world of innovation , unglamorous management basics matter .

    即便在一个激动人心且技术领先的创新世界里,单调的管理学基本原则仍然发挥着重要作用。

  7. 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。

  8. 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。

  9. 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。

  10. 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。

  11. But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right .

    但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业,纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。

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

    芒果金融定位于一个单调的市场,即无银行账号的人。

  13. Predictability is considered boring and unglamorous , in a world that reveres creativity and disruption .

    在这个崇尚创造力和颠覆的世界,可预测性被视为一种无趣和缺乏魅力的特质。

  14. For decades , iron ore was plentiful , prices were stable and mining the commodity was a monotonous and unglamorous business .

    在长达数十年中,铁矿石储量丰富,价格稳定,开采这种大宗商品是一个单调乏味的行当。

  15. One case in point is Fincera , a Chinese transportation services company based in Shijiazhuang , the drab capital of an equally unglamorous province , Hebei .

    位于石家庄的中国运输服务企业开元金融(Fincera)就是一个很好的例子。灰蒙蒙的石家庄是同样乏味的河北省的省会。

  16. Unglamorous , usually unexciting and normally invisible , the world 's financial plumbing is gummed up .

    毫不张扬地,通常是悄无声息地,全球金融流通管道堵塞了。

  17. It is relatively slow , unglamorous and , assuming the rest of the journey is by car , not even environmentally friendly .

    渡轮速度相对较慢,单调乏味,一般剩下的旅程还得坐车,渡轮甚至还不环保。

  18. Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair .

    午餐绝非令人想望的事情。

  19. It was all about cleaning up Germany , and the West , and the world , and ridding it of anything unglamorous .

    主要内容是赶走德国人,西方世界,乃至全世界,并且去掉任何单调乏味的东西。

  20. An unglamorous job greasing engines .

    给机器加润滑油的单调工作。

  21. Germany has belatedly discovered that its sober , solid and deliberately unglamorous leader is really the person calling the shots across the continent .

    德国人终于迟钝地发现,他们这位冷静、可靠、故意显得毫无光彩的领导人,实际上是整个欧洲的发号施令者。

  22. 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。

  23. 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。

  24. 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。

  25. Even in the case of an API or a similarly unglamorous set of functions , someone else cares : a partner development team , a consuming application team , whomever .

    即使是关于API或者类似单调的功能,也会有人关心:一个合伙开发团队,一个激进的应用团队,或者其他人。

  26. 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。

  27. And unglamorous suburbs like Fangshan and Tongzhou will be designated as ' hubs ' for specific industries , like petrochemicals and ' cultural industries , ' respectively .

    房山和通州等不太繁荣的郊区将被定为特定行业的中心,比如房山和通州将分别被规划为石油化工和文化产业中心。

  28. 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。

  29. Profit-starved hedge fund managers , best known as masters of the financial universe , are turning to an unlikely place for their next windfall : the unglamorous world of long-only asset management .

    享有金融世界主宰者之称的对冲基金经理人因苦于无法获得利润,纷纷转向一个人们意料之外的领域寻找发大财的机会:貌似平淡无奇的单边做多资产管理领域。

  30. Shenzhen , which has fallen 35.7 per cent this year , continues to attract a stream of lesser known companies in unglamorous sectors that are helping fuel economic growth of more than 10 per cent a year in China .

    今年已累计下跌35.7%的深圳股市继续吸引着不惹眼行业中一系列不太知名的企业。这些行业帮助中国实现了每年逾10%的经济增长率。