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

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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
• Vapid utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等
• 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。
• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。