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

• Vapid utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• In vapid listlessness I leant my head against the window, and continued spelling over Catherine earnshaw?
  我无精打采地把头靠在窗子上，接连地拼写着凯瑟琳？
• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• 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。