查询词典 drabber

But it seems more likely that London will simply resemble the less prepossessing city it was in the 1970s and 1980s, before the excesses and excitements of the New Labour epoch: a drabber place, less magnetic to foreigners, worse hit than its rivals—like Britain as a whole—by the global downturn.

但更有可能的是，伦敦可能只会变成上世纪七八十年代那样不受注目的城市，那时，工党浪费激动的纪元还未开启：单调无味、难以吸引外国游人、在全球衰退中受的伤比其对手都重。

The flittering of the goldfinches, who always travel in domestic pairs, he gorgeous in black-patterned yellow feathers, she drabber in greenish grey-yellow.

一闪而过的红额金翅雀，它们总是成双成对出现。公雀有着极其漂亮的黑色花纹的黄羽毛，而母雀的羽毛呢，却是略带绿色的灰黄色，显得毫无生气，黯然失色。

The circulation, consumption and reproduction of the trilogy have not only testified to its historical significance and literariness, but also invested it with new meanings.

该三部曲的流通、消费与再生产不仅验证了其历史意义及文学性，而切还赋予它以新的意义。

If he thought that he could buy me off, he would be wrong.

如果他认为他可以收买我，那他就大错特错了。