unglamorous

unglamorous

1. The 2008 edition is, by contrast, an unglamorous, even prosaic affair. The installation is plain and focused, with many artists given niches of their own.

2008年版与此正好相反，它出乎意料的朴素，甚至平淡.。安装很简便，重点突出，并给予许多艺术家自己的创意空间。

2. (1) My mother is an unglamorous person.

“unglamorous” 是不出风头的平凡。

3. it was viewed as an unglamorous business and a technological backwater.

一般人都认为这种通信方式平凡无奇、技术水平甚低。

4. The reason is often thought to be that this is shamefully unglamorous or just too sluggish.In fact, accountants may simply be keeping quiet about a boom.

一般认为这是因为这些行为乏味而不光彩或只是公司行动迟缓，实际上，会计师们仅仅是悄悄的迎来了会计业务繁荣。

5. It is true the year has been unglamorous but so has every year since I started working.

不错，这一年确实是朴实无华，但是自从我开始工作以来，哪一年不是朴实无华？

6. an unglamorous job

乏味的工作

7. Delivered with a rich, textured tone, McKenna's songs are thoughtful and consistent but often lack immediate spark.Title track "Unglamorous"

以富丽及质地音色来表达，思想丰富的首尾一贯的但往往缺乏直接的激情。

8. But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.It takes an age, for example, to enforce a contract in the country's courts.

但政府仍然好大喜功，而且迟迟做不好那些司空见惯的事，比如这个国家的法庭耗时甚长才使一个合同被强制执行。

9. But the government is still too fond of its grandiose projects and too slow to get unglamorous things right.

但政府还是太热衷于它的宏伟事业，纠正那些错误的事情的速度太过缓慢。

10. But fundamentally, it performs an unglamorous function in a utilitarian way.

但是基本上，它还是功利性地扮演一个没有趣味的功能角色。

11. Lunch was a decidedly unglamorous affair.

午餐绝非令人想望的事情。

12. Since the code is standard, every computer should be able to translate it into serviceable, if unglamorous, copy.

因为此编码是一种标准，所以每个计算机都可以把它翻译成可用的拷贝。

13. Being faithful in the routines, on the Mondays after the Sundays, is important. It is as inversely important as it seems unglamorous.

在主日之后的每个星期一，忠心于这些例行公事是非常重要的。它看似毫不起眼，却反而富含深意。

14. The chores assigned to the travelers are rather unglamorous.

太空游客分配到的任务实在有点无聊。

15. It will also be among the first of this group to be decommissioned, an unglamorous task that was not fully thought through during the era when plants were being constructed.

它将是首批核电厂中最先拆除的。这项黯然的工作，在当初兴建核电厂的年代，并未考虑周全。

16. "As a sensible worker, I look forward to 2003 as unglamorous and focused, productive and satisfying," I wrote.

我在文章中写道，“作为一个头脑清醒的工作者，我期望2003年是朴实的一年，专注的一年，多产的一年，令人满意的一年。”

17. Common stocks, like Dow Jones industrials, were unglamorous but usually dependable.

普通股，比如道琼斯工业股，无趣又乏味，但是可以作为参考依据。

18. It is relatively slow, unglamorous and, assuming the rest of the journey is by car, not even environmentally friendly.

渡轮速度相对较慢，单调乏味，一般剩下的旅程还得坐车，渡轮甚至还不环保。

19. Realities: It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct, a centrist policy

现实情况:阐述一项不偏不倚的政策是乏味的，执行这项政策更为复杂。

20. Realities: It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct, a centrist policy.

现实情况：阐述一项不偏不倚的政策是乏味的，执行这项政策更为复杂。

21. The Texas-based company is in the seemingly unglamorous business of running corporate data centers, a prime target of the Indian outsourcers.

电子数据系统公司的主要业务集中于管理公司数据中心，而这也正是印度电脑服务外包商的主要目标，似乎对于一家大公司而言，这样的业务看起来过于单调。

22. The Texas-based company is in the seemingly unglamorous business of running corporate data centers a prime target of the Indian outsourcers.

电子数据系统公司的主要业务集中于管理公司数据中心，而这也正是印度电脑服务外包商的主要目标，好像对于一家大公司而言，这样的业务看起来过于单调。

23. Monitoring, prediction, data management and communication are the unglamorous underpinnings of a successful urban risk-management strategy.

监控、预测、信息管理和信息交流是成功的城市风险管理策略的基础，往往不被重视。

24. an unglamorous job greasing engines.

给机器加润滑油的单调工作。

25. The police lab is located in an unglamorous building in the borough of Queens.

警局实验室位在皇后区一栋不甚起眼的建筑内；

26. That is why I found myself in an unglamorous shop at the unglamorous end of a mall, talking RAM with the shop's owner, the self-styled RAM Dude.

这也就是为什么这家不起眼的店铺会藏在商场一个不起眼的角落里。

27. What these companies also have in common are unglamorous surroundings.

这些面包店的共同点是周边环境很单调。

28. It is unglamorous to articulate, and complex to conduct a centrist policy

阐述一项不偏不倚的政策是乏味的，执行这项政策更为复杂。