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

• 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。
• Make vapid or deprive of spirit.
  使索然无味或变得没精神。
• 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。
• I'm not willing to waste two days arguing with a bunch of vapid schoolgirls.
  我不愿意浪费两天时间跟一帮令人厌烦的女学生争论。
• His witticism was as sharp as a marble. vapid utterances, remarks, comments, etc
  他的打趣话十分枯燥无味。枯燥无味的话语、言语、评语等
• Such a teaching method gives rise to memorizing words mechanically in the word list for students, which gradually makes students feel extremely bored and vapid towards learning vocabulary and even lose confidence in English learning at last.
  这种教法导致学生主要靠死记硬背来识记词汇表里的单词，渐渐地学生感到词汇学习无比乏味、无趣，最后甚至失去学习英语的信心。
• 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。
• There is a pervasive sense that not only jobs but also power, wealth, ideas and national identity itself are migrating, permanently and at disarming speed, to leave a vapid grandeur on the banks of the Seine.
  人们普遍感觉，正以惊人的速度永远离法国而去的不只是工作机会，还有权力、财富乃至国家认同感本身，遗留在塞纳河岸的唯有空洞乏味的的伟大。
• Ethan loves kung-fu movies, but Joe thinks they are just vapid entertainment.
  伊桑喜欢功夫电影，但乔却认为那是无趣的娱乐。
• 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。