查询词典 drab

I followed Ahun up a flight of stairs, and when he flung open the door, it struck me that these homes are like oysters: On the outside they're drab and crude, but on the inside whitewashed plaster walls gleam, and many-colored rugs complement painted ceilings.

我跟着Ahun走上一段楼梯后他推开了门，我当时就震惊了，这些屋子就像贝壳一样：外面看起来单调乏味，但是里面却别有洞天，白色石膏刷过的墙面闪着微光，色彩绚丽的毛毯和画满图案的天花板搭配得相得益彰。

You can laud them for speaking their minds, or you can criticize them for their big mouth, but you cannot deny that these retorts, rebuttals and asides add much needed color to an otherwise drab portrait of Chinese officialdom.

你可以赞扬他们直抒胸臆，也可以骂他们的大丑嘴巴，但你不能否认，这些反驳和旁白为中国官场众生相添加了新的色彩。

The dust was now gone and the cobwebs dispersed, but to Towser the bright colors of the pennoncels seemed false—too bright, like the painted skin of a drab who hopes to mimic her own younger days, thus destroying what true beauty remains.

现在，旗帜上的灰尘被打扫干净了，蜘蛛网也被扫掉了，但是对Towser来说，旗帜上的明亮的色泽看上去象是虚假的——太明亮了，象是一个娼妓，想要模仿年轻时的岁月，而在皮肤上着了浓妆，因此，毁掉了那真残余的真正的美丽。

The train moved slowly south through flat, drab main-line scenery.

火车穿过干线两侧风景单调乏味的地区，缓慢地向南驶去。

They often are welcomed into village homes while dressed in military drab and headscarves.

这些身着军服、头戴钢盔的女兵，经常被村民请到家中做客。

She walked to town, wearing oldfashioned galoshes even when the weather got warm, and a long drab coat and a scarf over her hair.

她步行去镇上，即便很暖和的天气，也总穿着过时的胶鞋和一件长长的土褐色外套，头上戴着一条围巾，碰到人时会轻声打声招呼，但从不看着对方；或者抹过头去，一声不吭。

This once drab neighborhood is being changed, seemingly overnight, thanks to the Highline.

这一次单调附近正在发生变化，似乎在一夜之间，由于Highline 。

This once drab neighborhood is being changed, seemingly overnight, thanks to the Highline.

看来似乎很快的，这个以前的邻居已经变了，归功于这条高速路线。

Hotel bands were replaced with drab synthesisers.

之后，酒店里的乐团便消失了，取而代之的是合成器中单调乏味的音乐。

Eight or more of these fiberglass boxes are electronically linked in the drab Fort Knox warehouse.

8个或者更多的这种纤维玻璃大盒子通过电线连接到诺克斯堡那土褐色的仓库中。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷