drab，英語單詞，主要用作形容詞、名詞、及物動詞、不及物動詞，作形容詞時譯為“單調的；土褐色的”，作名詞時譯為“(Drab)人名；(匈)德勞布；(法)德拉布”，作及物動詞時譯為“使無生氣”，作不及物動詞時譯為“嫖妓”。
基本介紹
- 外文名：drab
- 詞性：形容詞、名詞、及物動詞、不及物動詞
- 英式發音：[dræb]
- 美式發音：[dræb]
單詞用法,短語搭配,雙語例句,
單詞用法
柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典
drab /dræb/ TEM8 ( drabber, drabbest )
1.ADJ If you describe something as drab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience. 單調乏味的
2. drabness N-UNCOUNT 單調乏味
3.ADJ of the colour drab 土褐色的
4.N a light olive-brown colour 土褐色
5.N a slatternly woman 蕩婦
短語搭配
Drab soil 及褐土 ; 褐土 ; 褐色土 ; 黃褐土
drab lives 乏味的生活
Brian Drab 分析師布萊恩·德拉布
Drab Little 小天地
LOLIVE DRAB 橄欖色 ; 淺黃色
Olie drab 橄欖土褐色
Drab louse 故在英語中又稱蟹虱
雙語例句
What do you find to attract you in this poor drab little country?
這個貧窮、單調的小地方，有什麼吸引你們的地方？
The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
這座城市白天死氣沉沉、單調乏味，晚上就完全變了樣。
《牛津詞典》
The decorations for the games have lent a splash of colour to an otherwise drab city.
運動會的裝飾為這個平時乏味的城市增添了幾抹色彩。
《柯林斯英漢雙解大詞典》
Life on a closed timelike curve seems pretty drab.
在一個封閉的時間型曲線中，生活看來是很單調的。
The landscape is drab and infested with brick ovens.
景色單調，惟見磚窯遍布。
Hotel bands were replaced with drab synthesisers.
之後，酒店裡的樂團便消失了，取而代之的是合成器中單調乏味的音樂。
"It used to be dark and drab in here," Waters says.
“以前這裡昏暗單調，”Waters說。
But it makes a change from the usual drab meeting rooms.
但它仍然改變了以往單調的會議形式。
Dinosaur fossils are mostly drab collections of mineralized bones.
絕大多數恐龍化石都只是些土褐色的石化的骨頭。
On another day we met a snapping turtle in his primordial olive drab armor.
還有一天我們在路上看到了一隻鱷龜，這隻烏龜一襲原始的草綠色盔甲。
Still, our tiny, drab apartment seemed like paradise. Love does that, you know.
即使如此，我們那個狹小、簡陋的寓所卻像天堂一般，你要知道，這是因為有了愛。
If you have no such moment when you can be a queen, you will feel the life is so drab.
如果一生中你沒有這樣的稱王稱霸的時刻，該是多么乏味。
Most pundits expect that he will be rather drab compared with his predecessor, Yuri Luzhkov.
大多數權威人士對他的期望是，與其前任魯茲科夫相比，他將會顯得相當沒有魄力。
The canal's drab green water rolled along beside us, offering sharp relief to the open desert beyond.
在這片空曠無垠的沙漠上，運河那單調的綠波在我們身邊翻騰，給我們帶來了莫大的寬慰。
Then Beijing was a gray, drab, one-horse town where the main means of transportation was the bicycle.
那時的北京是一個灰色、乏味、設施簡陋的城市，主要交通工具是腳踏車。
Take Temucuicui, a drab Mapuche village of some 170 families just five miles off the Pan-American highway.
以特姆庫庫為例，這是一個由170個家庭組成的簡單的馬普利村莊，村莊離泛美高速公路僅有5公里的路程。
Just two decades ago, shops had surly staff offering a few drab items, often locked safely away in glass cases.
就在20年前，商店裡還滿是蠻橫的員工，僅提供少數單調的商品，而且還通常遠離顧客的安全地鎖在玻璃櫥櫃裡。
The child's mother, a pretty girl in drab polyester, smiles without showing her teeth, shakes her head "no."
那個孩子的媽媽，一個穿著褐色化纖衣服的漂亮女孩，連牙齒也沒有露，微笑著搖搖頭。
She had hitherto been far more interested in the drab ochre-washed edifice opposite, which was the Police Station.
這以前她倒是對馬路對面刷成紅色的警察局尖樓頂更感興趣。
The world was no longer flat. What were those countries that had all seemed so uniform (and uniformly drab) really like?
世界不再是平的，那些看起來如此一致的國家(一致到沉悶單調)究竟是怎樣的？
It seems like the drab world of C-like, imperative, curly braces languages might be spiced up by a variety of paradigms.
似乎與C語言一樣具有單調命令式和括弧的語言都可以使用不同的範式形成。
Italians are probably the best at wearing color — you would be hard pressed to see people there wearing dark, drab colors.
義大利人在衣服顏色的選擇方面是最出眾的，你可能不會看到任何一個義大利人穿黑色或者土褐色的衣服。
THE locked doors of a public library in West Norwood, a drab part of south London, are an unlikely economic indicator.
西諾·伍德是倫敦南部一片無聊的地方，它公共圖書館緊鎖的門不太像是一個經濟指標。
BACK in the 1970s, a third of Britons routinely tuned into the "Generation game", a heroically drab television game show.
回顧20世紀70年代，三分之的英國人都收看“世代遊戲”一個具有英雄的、讓人感到沉悶的電視遊戲節目。
He isn't much to look at: a blue jay-size fellow with plain, olive-drab feathers and a single streak of orange on his head.
他相貌平平：個頭跟藍松鴉差不多，深綠褐色的羽毛，頭上有橙色的條紋。
