drab
英[dræb]
美[dræb]
- adj. 单调的；土褐色的
- n. 浅褐色；无生气；邋遢；小额
- vt. 使无生气
- vi. 嫖妓
- n. (Drab)人名；(匈)德劳布；(法)德拉布
英英释意
- 1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
- "her drab personality"
- "life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
- "a series of dreary dinner parties"
- 2. lacking brightness or color; dull;
- "drab faded curtains"
- "sober Puritan gray"
- "children in somber brown clothes"
- 3. depressing in character or appearance;
- "drove through dingy streets"
- "the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens
- "drab old buildings"
- "a dreary mining town"
- "gloomy tenements"
- "sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams