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

• Ethan loves kung-fu movies, but Joe thinks they are just vapid entertainment.
  伊桑喜欢功夫电影，但乔却认为那是无趣的娱乐。
• 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
• Their publications were vapid and amateurish.
  他们的出版物枯燥乏味，且外行浅薄。
• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。