vapid

英 [ˈvæpɪd]

美 [ˈvæpɪd]

adj.  乏味的; 枯燥的; 愚蠢的

GRE

BNC.37781 / COCA.26818

牛津词典

adj.

• 乏味的；枯燥的；愚蠢的
  lacking interest or intelligence

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 乏味的;枯燥的;无趣的
  If you describe someone or something asvapid, you are critical of them because they are dull and uninteresting.
  1. ...the Minister's young and rather vapid wife...
     部长年轻无趣的妻子
  2. She made a vapid comment about the weather.
     她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。

英英释义

adj

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  1. a vapid conversation
  2. a vapid smile
  3. a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
• lacking taste or flavor or tang
  1. a bland diet
  2. insipid hospital food
  3. flavorless supermarket tomatoes
  4. vapid beer
  5. vapid tea
  Synonym:blandflatflavorlessflavourlessinsipidsavorlesssavourless

双语例句

• Vapid prose apart, Drucker himself could have drafted that press release.
  如果不是因为行文枯燥乏味，这篇新闻稿简直就像是出自德鲁克本人之手。
• I remember bingeing on television when I was a child and having that vapid feeling after watching hours of TV.
  我记得我小时候看电视带来的狂欢以及看了数小时电视之后的索然无味的感觉。
• I'm so sick of the word "good"; it is so stale and vapid!
  “善”这个词令我十分恶心；它是如此陈腐，如此索然无味！
• But, as Orwell and Mr Havel realised, these vapid expression_rs are not harmless.
  但正如奥威尔和哈维尔认识到的那样，这类索然无味的辞令并非无害。
• 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？
• 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。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• A bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea.
  不油腻的饮食；无味的医院的食物；无味的超市的番茄；乏味的啤酒；无味的茶。
• In order to get a better performance for the variable-parameter PID control, a concept of robust tuning is put forward, meanwhile an immune genetic algorithm is also applied to robust optimal tuning of VAPID.
  为了使变参数PID控制取得更好的性能，提出了鲁棒整定的思想，并采用免疫遗传算法进行设计参数的鲁棒优化调整。
• His witticism was as sharp as a marble. vapid utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  他的打趣话十分枯燥无味。枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等