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

• Such a teaching method gives rise to memorizing words mechanically in the word list for students, which gradually makes students feel extremely bored and vapid towards learning vocabulary and even lose confidence in English learning at last.
  这种教法导致学生主要靠死记硬背来识记词汇表里的单词，渐渐地学生感到词汇学习无比乏味、无趣，最后甚至失去学习英语的信心。
• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
• 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。
• American television is full of programmes which, however vapid their content, look spectacular.
  美国电视尽是些内容枯燥乏味、看来蔚为壮观的节目。
• I'm not willing to waste two days arguing with a bunch of vapid schoolgirls.
  我不愿意浪费两天时间跟一帮令人厌烦的女学生争论。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• 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。