vapid
英 ['væpɪd]
美['væpɪd]
- adj. 无趣味的；无生气的；索然乏味的
词态变化
名词: vapidity;
中文词源
vapid 乏味的
来自vapor,蒸气，蒸发，用于指酒的酒精蒸发掉的，乏味的。
英英释意
- 1. lacking taste or flavor or tang;
- "a bland diet"
- "insipid hospital food"
- "flavorless supermarket tomatoes"
- "vapid beer"
- "vapid tea"
- 2. lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest;
- "a vapid conversation"
- "a vapid smile"
- "a bunch of vapid schoolgirls"
英文词源
- vapid (adj.)
- 1650s, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from Latin vapidus "flat, insipid," literally "that has exhaled its vapor," related to vappa "stale wine," and probably to vapor "vapor." Applied from 1758 to talk and writing deemed dull and lifeless. Related: Vapidly; vapidness.
实用场景例句
- ...the Minister's young and rather vapid wife...
- 部长年轻无趣的妻子
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- She made a vapid comment about the weather.
- 她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
柯林斯高阶英语词典
- In June they left the vapid Mr Hatoyama in no doubt he should resign.
- 六月,他们又“免掉”了毫无作为的鸠山由纪夫,毋庸置疑鸠山应该辞职.
期刊摘选
- A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.
- 提到老大哥,温斯顿的脸上便了无生气地掠过了一丝向往的表情.
英汉文学
- The theory is vapid, while the life is colorful.
- 理论是灰色的, 唯生活之树常青.
期刊摘选
- You are obviously not a contactee or you would not ask such a vapid question.
- 很明显,你不是联系人,否则你是不会问这么一个没有意思的问题的.
期刊摘选
- The next issue is that reviewing is generally dull and vapid.
- 接下来的问题就是,复习是一个枯燥无味的工作.
期刊摘选
- In vapid Listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine Earnshaw?
- 我无精打采地把头靠在窗子上, 接连地拼写着凯瑟琳?
期刊摘选
- Tom dislikes vapid food.
- 汤姆不喜欢无味的食物.
期刊摘选
- Gave a vapid and unmeaning response to a difficult query.
- 对一个难于回答的提问作出了一个干瘪而无甚意义的反应.
期刊摘选
- Too much hard working will make life vapid and kill the vitality and sunshine of life.
- 多虚伪呀,功用太重又索然无味扼杀了生命的生机与灿烂.
期刊摘选
- Sun Xiu was taught a lesson, feeling vapid. He left with a touch of his nose.
- 孙休被扁子教训了一顿,自觉无趣, 摸摸鼻子,走了.
期刊摘选
- He did the same thing year by year and found life vapid.
- 他每年做着同样的事,觉得生活索然无味.
期刊摘选
- But theproblem is that Ms Merkel has been delivering similarly vapid speeches aroundthe whole country.
- 但是问题在于Merkel已经在全国范围内宣讲了她那单调乏味的演说.
期刊摘选
- With every advantage of lungs and elocution, the effect is vapid.
- 然而,扯着嗓子 、 扬顿挫地朗诵,其结果却是令听者兴味索然.
期刊摘选
- With every advantage of lungs and elocution, the effect is singularly vapid.
- 然而,扯着嗓子、抑扬顿挫地朗诵, 其结果却是令听者兴味索然.
期刊摘选
- His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
- 他谈话乏味已极.
期刊摘选
- She made a vapid comment about the weather.
- 她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
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