jejune
jejune 英 [dʒɪˈdʒu:n] 美 [dʒəˈdʒun]
adj. 枯燥无味的；幼稚的；缺乏营养的
名词复数:jejunes
- Use the adjective jejune to describe something that is uninteresting or insignificant. Many people claim to find celebrity gossip jejune, but ask them about a recent movie star scandal and chances are they know all about it.
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- adj. 枯燥无味的；幼稚的；缺乏营养的
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1. Then she was gone, leaving me in unexpectedly jejune loneliness.
于是她走了，置我于意想不到的空虚孤独之中。
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2. His jejune approach to decision-making - know yourself but not necessarily the facts - is downright repellent.
他那种幼稚的决策方法——了解你自己，而不必了解事实——是完全不能被人接受的。
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3. The jejune caption is cited just to emphasize the importance of a foreign correspondent's knowledge of the country he covers to the writing of good stories. He has to speak the language of its people.
举这一篇特稿的例子，只是为了凸显海外特派员必须对驻在国具备丰富知识的重要性，因为唯有如此，他才能写出引人入胜的报导。
- jejune (adj.) 1610s, "dull in the mind, flat, insipid, wanting in interest," from Latin ieiunus "empty, dry, barren," literally "fasting, hungry," a word of obscure origin. Related: jejunal; jejunally.
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