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

• 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。
• Due to lack of proper guidance, many students just brace themselves and swallow to learn the vapid foreign words by note. As a result, regardless of wasting a lot of time and effort, the efficiency is low.
  由于缺乏正确的指导，很多同学往往只是硬着头皮不分主次、囫囵吞枣地死记硬背那些干巴巴的外语单词，结果时间花了不少，工夫下了很多，但效果却其微。
• They are neither authentic means of creativity, nor vapid carriers of an idea.
  它们既不是创造性的真正手段，也不是空洞的思想承载者。
• 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！
• A vapid conversation; a vapid smile; a bunch of vapid schoolgirls.
  索然无味的谈话；平淡的笑；一群没有生气的女学生。
• 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
• 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？
• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• Ethan loves kung-fu movies, but Joe thinks they are just vapid entertainment.
  伊桑喜欢功夫电影，但乔却认为那是无趣的娱乐。
• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。