Drab的意思|Drab的解释-里氏词典

drab [dræb]

a. 土褐色的, 单调的

Shabby, drab, or squalid.
褴褛的褴褛的，单调的或邋遢的
The female is generally drab, the male per contra brilliant.
一般来说雌性是黄褐色的，而雄性是色彩鲜明的。
A drab personality.
乏味的个性

drab
drabbed, drabber, drabbest, drabbing

[ noun ]

a dull greyish to yellowish or light olive brown

<noun.attribute>

[ adj ]

lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise

<adj.all>

her drab personality

life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas

a series of dreary dinner parties

lacking brightness or color; dull

<adj.all>

drab faded curtains

sober Puritan grey

children in somber brown clothes

of a light brownish green color

<adj.all>

causing dejection

<adj.all>

a blue day

the dark days of the war

a week of rainy depressing weather

a disconsolate winter landscape

the first dismal dispiriting days of November

a dark gloomy day

grim rainy weather

Drab \Drab\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Drabbed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Drabbing}.]
To associate with strumpets; to wench. --Beau. & Fl.

Drab \Drab\, a.
Of a color between gray and brown. -- n. A drab color.

Drab \Drab\, n. [F. drap cloth: LL. drappus, trapus, perh.
orig., a firm, solid stuff, cf. F. draper to drape, also to
full cloth; prob. of German origin; cf. Icel. drepa to beat,
strike, AS. drepan, G. treffen; perh. akin to E. drub. Cf.
{Drape}, {Trappings}.]
1. A kind of thick woolen cloth of a dun, or dull brownish
yellow, or dull gray, color; -- called also {drabcloth}.

2. A dull brownish yellow or dull gray color.

Drab \Drab\ (dr[a^]b), n. [AS. drabbe dregs, lees; akin to D.
drab, drabbe, dregs, G. treber; for sense 1, cf. also Gael.
drabag a slattern, drabach slovenly. Cf. {Draff}.]
1. A low, sluttish woman. --King.

2. A lewd wench; a strumpet. --Shak.

3. A wooden box, used in salt works for holding the salt when
taken out of the boiling pans.

Ladies wore diamonds, officers wore uniform. By contrast, London looks drab. The play was appropriate, too: a revival of Terence Rattigan's While The Sun Shines.
Some of the society's members want to publish their own newspaper as an alternative to the town's drab Yenakiyevo Worker.
A drab Lutheran church in East Berlin has become the headquarters of a grassroots movement aimed at forcing reform upon the country's aging and authoritarian Communist leadership.
The hospice is a drab, utilitarian four-story building that once served as a seminary and is now home to four black-frocked priests of the Congregation of Saint Bernard, part of the order of St. Augustine.
The lighting is drab, the creatures are silly and the plot momentum - well, there isn't any. Burroughs's book had a point.
When we re-meet Ann/Mayan (who has assumed her Egyptian name) she is living in a drab New York City apartment, struggling to keep afloat in medical school and doing the rounds as a trainee at a local hospital.
There is a widespread sense that this drab center cannot hold.
The weather is getting colder." As of Friday, only 14 people had turned up at the reception center normally used to train civil defense recruits in this drab industrial city 25 miles east of the West German border town of Helmstedt.
"The cities are drab and the economy is in shambles after years of isolation.
But he does allow a massive, turntable set of drab living rooms designed by Andrew Jackness to nearly overwhelm what should be an intimate drama.
But Mr. Barco's steady, if drab, leadership has restored at least some of the confidence Colombians lost during the erratic Betancur administration, whose guiding motto was instant action, whatever the consequences.
As for Hartmarx suits, he says, "Too drab, too dull, too boring." Dr. Volpe and a woman friend sip white wine served up by a Bigsby & Kruthers salesman.
Hotels and shops will soon line what is now just a drab road.
The fare of $6,750 (which includes a $750 donation to the Whitney) isn't cheap, but the 22 participants won't have drab guides.
Versace also uses the most colorful palette ever to be seen on the Milan runway, traditionally devoted to drab brown, gray and black.
We are becoming a true community." Less than two years ago Glenarden was known not as a community but as "the drugstore," with cars often lined up to buy drugs from dealers stationed outside the drab rows of apartment buildings.
Whereas the lengthened hemline at Armani marks a change from last season's mini, the look at Gigli is long and drab as per usual.
Do not judge it when the heads of flower are still in bud and have a drab buff tone to them.
Cubans not sympathetic to their government are eager for TV Marti to succeed, contending it will bring a new dimension to the drab fare now available from local programming.
Vietnamese women once again are wearing the ao dai, the sensual, elegant traditional dress that rigid Communists suppressed for years in favor of drab shirts and black trousers.
By contrast, Varszegi is proud to call himself 'conservative'. 'I was born this way,' he says. Not that there is anything drab about Varszegi's past.
Fast disappearing are the drab browns and oranges of years past.
For the rest, Schenk's production is as conventional and drab as his Ring: individual singers have to light it. Hildegard Behrens, in the title role, did so.

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