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

• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• 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。
• Since reform and open, Chinese biology industry has got vapid increase trend on background of the whole good development situation.
  改革开放以来，我国生物产业在国民经济整体快速增长的大背景下，也呈现出快速增长的态势。
• She made a vapid comment about the weather.
  她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。
• 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。
• 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 utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等
• I remember bingeing on television when I was a child and having that vapid feeling after watching hours of TV.
  我记得我小时候看电视带来的狂欢以及看了数小时电视之后的索然无味的感觉。
• 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
• Too much hard working will make life vapid and kill the vitality and sunshine of life.
  多虚伪呀，功用太重又索然无味扼杀了生命的生机与灿烂。