| 词汇 | unfashionable |
| 释义 | unfashionable adjective uk /ʌnˈfæʃ.ən.ə.bəl/ us /ʌnˈfæʃ.ən.ə.bəl/ B2 not modern or popular: 不时髦的，不流行的，过时的 They paid less for the house because it was in an unfashionable part of town.他们买的这个房子价格低一些，因为位置在城里没有那么热门的一个地方。 Synonyms old-fashionedmainly disapproving outdated outmodeddisapproving Opposite fashionable Tedious and uninspiring (as) dull as ditchwateridiom anonymous banal banally basic marginal marmoreal meh menial menially staid staidly stale staleness stodgily watch paint dryidiom watch the clockidiom wearisome wearisomely weary Examples of unfashionableunfashionable The status of arrangement today, however, is quite different; in new music, arrangement is mostly avoided and perceived as unfashionable. Although extremely unfashionable at the moment, group selection is an attractive theory when one is presented by data such as this book contains. Expenditure, perhaps, for what is unfashionable, loud and vulgar. This earnest student's question was therefore unfashionable in the 1980s. They also remind us that 'political theatre', however unfashionable the term might be, is not a spent force. Quantitative genetic technology has become unfashionable, for example, despite its obvious utility. Jenkins has struck a belated and unfashionable blow for commonsense - he deserves to be heard. To call attention to and give some value to the unchanging, immutable, inflexible, untreatable and incurable is to be deeply unfashionable, even sacrilegious. A few key assets have prevented military history from fading into the same type of obscurity as other unfashionable subjects. This is as different from my admittedly unfashionable falsificationist position as can be. It therefore seems timely that we revisit those largely rule-based systems that are currently unfashionable and see whether we can salvage anything from them. To consider plays as poems is today unfashionable, particularly in departments of drama wary of literariness. For all its unfashionable serialism, this account incorporates certain fundamental assumptions about syllabification which have been carried over more or less unchanged into more recent optimalist treatments of epenthesis. I was left wondering to what extent debate in this area (as in the recent case literature generally) might be improved if more consideration were given to hitherto unfashionable authors. As if aware of an unfashionable lack of intellectual toughness, the editor has overcompensated by throwing in a couple of heavy philosophical pieces at the end. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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