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drab adj.土褐色的；单调的；乏味的n.邋遢女人；娼妓；少量 (1) 一般来说雌性是黄褐色的，而雄性是色彩鲜明的。(2) 景色单调，惟见砖窑遍布。(3) 如果一个人的一生什么事情都没有做是多么迟钝和单调。(4) 她零零星星地付给我钱，而不是一次付清。 Have you ever heard of the color olive drab? It's the color the military clothes its soldiers in and is the original meaning of the word drab. A little over 100 years ago, people began using drab in the metaphorical sense to mean "dull" and "lacking brightness." If a website or an advertisement is drab, the page is boring and unattractive. If it is cold and rainy for a week, you'll get awfully tired of those drab days, and a great teacher can make even the drabbest book come to life.

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英 [dræb] 美 [dræb] (1) The female is generally drab, the male per contra brilliant.(2) The landscape is drab and infested with brick ovens.(3) The life of a person who never does anything is dull and drab.(4) She pay me in drib and drab, not all at once. 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. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]单调乏味的；缺乏生气的 If you describe something as drab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience. Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。...his drab little office...他死气沉沉的小办公室The rest of the day's activities often seemed drab or depressing.一天的剩余时光好像常常是乏味或令人沮丧的。drabness...the dusty drabness of nearby villages.附近灰尘弥漫、毫无生气的村庄2See also:dribs and drabs；

英语单词	drab
英美音标	英 [dræb] 美 [dræb]
中文释义	adj.土褐色的；单调的；乏味的 n.邋遢女人；娼妓；少量
英语例句	(1) The female is generally drab, the male per contra brilliant. (2) The landscape is drab and infested with brick ovens. (3) The life of a person who never does anything is dull and drab. (4) She pay me in drib and drab, not all at once.
中文例句	(1) 一般来说雌性是黄褐色的，而雄性是色彩鲜明的。 (2) 景色单调，惟见砖窑遍布。 (3) 如果一个人的一生什么事情都没有做是多么迟钝和单调。 (4) 她零零星星地付给我钱，而不是一次付清。
vocabulary简明	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.
vocabulary扩展	Have you ever heard of the color olive drab? It's the color the military clothes its soldiers in and is the original meaning of the word drab. A little over 100 years ago, people began using drab in the metaphorical sense to mean "dull" and "lacking brightness." If a website or an advertisement is drab, the page is boring and unattractive. If it is cold and rainy for a week, you'll get awfully tired of those drab days, and a great teacher can make even the drabbest book come to life.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]单调乏味的；缺乏生气的 If you describe something as drab, you think that it is dull and boring to look at or experience. Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress. 玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。 ...his drab little office... 他死气沉沉的小办公室 The rest of the day's activities often seemed drab or depressing. 一天的剩余时光好像常常是乏味或令人沮丧的。 drabness ...the dusty drabness of nearby villages. 附近灰尘弥漫、毫无生气的村庄 2 See also:dribs and drabs ；

Drab Boring Dull Sense Word Describe Color 英