drab

adj.

1. 单调乏味的；无光彩的；无生气的
   without interest or colour; dull and boring
   1. a cold drab little office
      冷冰冰的小办公室
   2. drab women, dressed in browns and greys
      身着棕灰二色衣服毫无光彩的女人

1. 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.
   1. Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
      玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。
   2. ...his drab little office...
      他死气沉沉的小办公室
   3. The rest of the day's activities 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。
2. See also: dribs and drabs

1. Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
   玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。
2. The rest of the day's activities 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. The train moved slowly south through flat, drab mainline scenery.
   火车穿过干线两侧风景单调乏味的地区，缓缓地向南驶去。
6. Don't wear blue tonight, it's too drab.
   今晚不要穿蓝色衣服，显得太单调。
7. We went into the drab old building.
   我们走进那栋单调乏味的古老建筑物。
8. Love life for the unattached would be low on activity and drab at times.
   单身的爱的生活将是低活性和单调的。
9. It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage, and made those walls dissolve away.
   就像一只美丽的鸟儿，振翅飞离了禁锢它的藩篱，溶化了那些高墙。
10. Flowers added a note of cheerfulness to the drab room.
    鲜花增加了单调的房间的愉快气氛。
11. But if your kitchen looks little drab, would you like to enter it?
    但是，如果您的厨房看土褐色的一点，您要不要进入它？
12. The phosphorus fertilizer and farmyard manure had the best effects on maize yield in Drab Fluvo-aquic soil.
    相关分析表明，在褐潮土上增施磷肥和有机肥对提高玉米产量具有重要的作用。
13. Under the new laws, tobacco products will be sold in dark brown, drab packaging from mid-2012.
    根据这项新法，从2012年年中开始，烟草产品将以土褐色的包装出售。
14. Midday sun streamed into the drab little room which gave it a sudden cheerfulness.
    中午的阳光射入这间毫无生气的小屋，突然给了它一种快乐的气氛。
15. An attorney's life was drab compared with the riskier but more exciting career of a barrister.
    比起辩护律师更具风险但更激动人心的生涯来，诉状律师的生活就显得单调乏味了。
16. The E71 also attacks the drab, plastic looks of its predecessors with chrome accents and a glossy screen.
    该e71还攻击褐土，塑胶期待其前任与铬的口音和光泽屏幕上。
17. Are you drab without me? it will be so drab. so, you need treat me better.
    没有我你闷不闷？一定会闷坏你。所以，你要对我好一点。
18. Their lives seem so drab.
    他们的生活似乎很单调乏味。
19. It was very beautiful, blue, minus the sun would drab.
    天很漂亮，蓝蓝的，只是少了太阳就单调了。
20. I feel so drab in this grey uniform.
    这件灰色的制服，我觉得没有光彩。
21. It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage.
    如一只美丽的小鸟，飞进了这灰色的鸟笼。
22. Without me, nobody will ask you "where have you been?" maybe you will feel drab.
    如果没有我，以后再没有人问你：“你去了哪里？”也许你会觉得闷。
23. The walls were painted a drab green.
    墙被粉刷成了褐绿色。
24. 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。
25. All the drab houses of the mining town collapsed after the earthquake.
    地震之后矿区的单调简陋的房屋全部坍塌了。
26. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty now they're gone.
    可是没有了它们，这里的生活会变得更加单调和空虚。
27. I see one world, but not a world drab in its uniformity but one enriched by its diversity.
    我看到一个大同世界，但不是单调的清一色世界，而是一个丰富的多样化的世界。
28. How dull and drab the life is!
    生活是如此单调而乏味！
29. Of a yellowish brown color similar to olive drab.
    指一种与草黄色类似的黄褐色。
30. I do not think it is dull or drab.
    我不认为是阴暗单调的。

noun

1. a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

   Synonym:    olive drab

adj

1. causing dejection
   1. a blue day
   2. the dark days of the war
   3. a week of rainy depressing weather
   4. a disconsolate winter landscape
   5. the first dismal dispiriting days of November
   6. a dark gloomy day
   7. grim rainy weather

   Synonym:    bluedarkdingydisconsolatedismalgloomygrimsorrydreardreary

2. of a light brownish green color

   Synonym:    olive-drab

3. lacking brightness or color
   1. drab faded curtains
   2. sober Puritan grey
   3. children in somber brown clothes

   Synonym:    sobersombersombre

4. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise
   1. her drab personality
   2. life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas
   3. a series of dreary dinner parties

   Synonym:    dreary