drab
drab 英 [dræb] 美 [dræb]
adj. 单调的；土褐色的 n. 浅褐色；无生气；邋遢；小额 vt. 使无生气
名词复数:drabs 比较级:drabber 最高级:drabbest
- Dull, dreary, dingy, depressing: These adjectives capture the sense of drab, whether the word is used to describe a muted color, a miserable mood, or an oppressively boring existence.
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- adj. 单调的；土褐色的
- n. 浅褐色；无生气；邋遢；小额
- vt. 使无生气
- vi. 嫖妓
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1. In drab browns and grays on a blue background, it depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.
这幅画作有着单调的黄褐及灰蓝色背景，画中盲眼妇女手执竖琴，一边侧耳倾听，一边用最后几根未断的琴弦弹奏。
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2. Researchers at England’s University of Saint Andrews say that photosynthetic life on such a planet might end up as a drab black or gray. Or even with a high SPF.
英国圣安德鲁大学的研究人员表示,在这样的行星上, 植物的光合作用结果只会是呈单调的黑色或者灰色, 甚至是更深的颜色.
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3. It seems like the drab world of C-like, imperative, curly braces languages might be spiced up by a variety of paradigms.
似乎与C语言一样具有单调命令式和括号的语言都可以使用不同的范式形成。
- drab (n.) 1680s, "color of natural, undyed cloth," from Middle French drap "cloth, piece of cloth" (see drape (v.)). Figurative sense is c. 1880. Apparently not related to earlier word drab, meaning "a dirty, untidy woman" (1510s), "a prostitute" (1520s), which might be related to Irish drabog, Gaelic drabag "dirty woman," or perhaps it is connected with Low German drabbe "dirt;" compare drabble (Middle English drabelen) "to soil (something); trail in the mud or on the ground" (c. 1400). Ultimately perhaps from PIE *dher- (1) "to make muddy." Meaning "small, petty debt" (the sense in dribs and drabs) is 1828, of uncertain connection to the other senses.
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