| 词汇 | uninspiring |
| 释义 | uninspiring adjective uk /ˌʌn.ɪnˈspaɪə.rɪŋ/ us /ˌʌn.ɪnˈspaɪr.ɪŋ/ not making you feel excited or interested: 不令人感到兴奋的;不能引起兴趣的 The menu looked fairly uninspiring.菜单看上去没什么吸引力。 Synonym lacklustreUK Opposite inspiring 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 uninspiringuninspiring For many devotees, however, experience that remains static becomes dull and uninspiring. Many, however, are of only passing interest: revealing little that is truly new, or written in a pedestrian and uninspiring style. Direct or one-toone mapping can be uninspiring, however, and under certain circumstances this could be an important mapping model. It is argued that, while invented sentences have often been uninspiring in practice, there are no valid reasons of principle against their use. The front cover is a most lack-lustre affair, consisting of an uninspiring greyish blue background with a silhouette of a horizontal male face at the bottom in a lighter shade. Although the subject matter should be visually appealing, many of the illustrations, for example the nucleotide sequences of genes with unknown developmental functions, are uninspiring and uninformative. So uninspiring are his arguments that he has to resort to making bogus points of order. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is that not a very dreary and uninspiring prospect? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Against that background the public expenditure statement was not only uninspiring but complacent. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 There is certainly much in this country that is uninspiring and that is tragic. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It was uninspiring, but that is nothing new. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The infants remain for two terms in the reception class, which is drab and uninspiring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 At that time, after decades of decline, we had available to us only a gloomy, uninspiring future for the rest of the century. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is no good having a completely dead-level training; it makes the profession very dull and uninspiring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The whole history of the matter is singularly uninspiring. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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