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

• 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 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。
• Stable thermal-neutral air conditioning environment actually does harm to people's health by weakening their thermal environment adaptability, and also the dull and stable environment makes people feel vapid and tired.
  稳态的空调环境由于削弱了人体的热适应能力从而影响了人的身体健康，同时单调的稳态环境使人产生了乏味、厌倦的心理。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• There is a pervasive sense that not only jobs but also power, wealth, ideas and national identity itself are migrating, permanently and at disarming speed, to leave a vapid grandeur on the banks of the Seine.
  人们普遍感觉，正以惊人的速度永远离法国而去的不只是工作机会，还有权力、财富乃至国家认同感本身，遗留在塞纳河岸的唯有空洞乏味的的伟大。
• 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。
• 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
• 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。
• In order to get a better performance for the variable-parameter PID control, a concept of robust tuning is put forward, meanwhile an immune genetic algorithm is also applied to robust optimal tuning of VAPID.
  为了使变参数PID控制取得更好的性能，提出了鲁棒整定的思想，并采用免疫遗传算法进行设计参数的鲁棒优化调整。
• 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。