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

• 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。
• Man candy is a man who is superficially attractive to look at or a man who has an attractive appearance but who may be vapid and lack substance.
  “草包美男”指外表很吸引人的男子；或者徒有迷人外表，但其实很无趣又没有内涵的男子。来看下面这个例子。
• 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。
• 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。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• A bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea.
  不油腻的饮食；无味的医院的食物；无味的超市的番茄；乏味的啤酒；无味的茶。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• 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
• 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。
• 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。