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

• The staggering success of yellow tail, with its kangaroo label, spawned so many imitation "critter" brands, as they were known, that at the bottom end of the market, Australia came to be seen as ubiquitous and vapid.
  带着袋鼠标签的黄尾葡萄酒（yellowtail）惊人的成功，引发了太多模仿的、被称之为“牛马”品牌的葡萄酒，在低端市场，澳大利亚开始被视为无所不在的乏味之选。
• They are neither authentic means of creativity, nor vapid carriers of an idea.
  它们既不是创造性的真正手段，也不是空洞的思想承载者。
• 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。
• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• This simulation environment provides manifold control algorithms to ship motion such as PID, intelligent PID, VAPID, neuron-PID, and fuzzy logic control and multi-mode controller with tuning parameters.
  操作者可对PID、智能PID、变参数PID、变结构PID、神经PID、模糊控制和多模态控制算法的控制参数进行调整。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。