vapid

英 [ˈvæpɪd]

美 [ˈvæpɪd]

adj.  乏味的; 枯燥的; 愚蠢的

GRE

BNC.37781 / COCA.26818

牛津词典

adj.

• 乏味的；枯燥的；愚蠢的
  lacking interest or intelligence

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 乏味的;枯燥的;无趣的
  If you describe someone or something asvapid, you are critical of them because they are dull and uninteresting.
  1. ...the Minister's young and rather vapid wife...
     部长年轻无趣的妻子
  2. She made a vapid comment about the weather.
     她对天气作了一番平淡无奇的评论。

英英释义

adj

• lacking significance or liveliness or spirit or zest
  1. a vapid conversation
  2. a vapid smile
  3. a bunch of vapid schoolgirls
• lacking taste or flavor or tang
  1. a bland diet
  2. insipid hospital food
  3. flavorless supermarket tomatoes
  4. vapid beer
  5. vapid tea
  Synonym:blandflatflavorlessflavourlessinsipidsavorlesssavourless

双语例句

• I'm so sick of the word "good"; it is so stale and vapid!
  “善”这个词令我十分恶心；它是如此陈腐，如此索然无味！
• American television is full of programmes which, however vapid their content, look spectacular.
  美国电视尽是些内容枯燥乏味、看来蔚为壮观的节目。
• In order to get a better performance for the variable-parameter PID control, a concept of robust tuning is put forward, meanwhile an immune genetic algorithm is also applied to robust optimal tuning of VAPID.
  为了使变参数PID控制取得更好的性能，提出了鲁棒整定的思想，并采用免疫遗传算法进行设计参数的鲁棒优化调整。
• A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston's face at the mention of Big Brother.
  提到老大哥，温斯顿的脸上便了无生气地掠过了一丝向往的表情。
• This simulation environment provides manifold control algorithms to ship motion such as PID, intelligent PID, VAPID, neuron-PID, and fuzzy logic control and multi-mode controller with tuning parameters.
  操作者可对PID、智能PID、变参数PID、变结构PID、神经PID、模糊控制和多模态控制算法的控制参数进行调整。
• His conversation was vapid in the extreme.
  他谈话乏味之极。
• The staggering success of yellow tail, with its kangaroo label, spawned so many imitation "critter" brands, as they were known, that at the bottom end of the market, Australia came to be seen as ubiquitous and vapid.
  带着袋鼠标签的黄尾葡萄酒（yellowtail）惊人的成功，引发了太多模仿的、被称之为“牛马”品牌的葡萄酒，在低端市场，澳大利亚开始被视为无所不在的乏味之选。
• A bland diet; insipid hospital food; flavorless supermarket tomatoes; vapid beer; vapid tea.
  不油腻的饮食；无味的医院的食物；无味的超市的番茄；乏味的啤酒；无味的茶。
• But, as Orwell and Mr Havel realised, these vapid expression_rs are not harmless.
  但正如奥威尔和哈维尔认识到的那样，这类索然无味的辞令并非无害。
• Man candy is a man who is superficially attractive to look at or a man who has an attractive appearance but who may be vapid and lack substance.
  “草包美男”指外表很吸引人的男子；或者徒有迷人外表，但其实很无趣又没有内涵的男子。来看下面这个例子。