The decorations for the games have lent a splash of colour to an otherwise drab city.
运动会的装饰为这个平时乏味的城市增添了几抹色彩。
Life on a closed timelike curve seems pretty drab.
在一个封闭的时间型曲线中,生活看来是很单调的。
Hotel bands were replaced with drab synthesisers.
之后,酒店里的乐团便消失了,取而代之的是合成器中单调乏味的音乐。
"It used to be dark and drab in here," Waters says.
“以前这里昏暗单调,”Waters说。
Dinosaur fossils are mostly drab collections of mineralized bones.
绝大多数恐龙化石都只是些土褐色的石化的骨头。
At the drab wooden house in which she lived he said good night briefly and amiably.
到了她住的那幢黄褐色的木头房子前,他简短而友好地道了晚安。
I see one world, but not a world drab in its uniformity but one enriched by its diversity.
我看到的是一个世界,但并不是一个清一色的单调世界,而是一个多样化的丰富的世界。
Most pundits expect that he will be rather drab compared with his predecessor, Yuri Luzhkov.
大多数权威人士对他的期望是,与其前任鲁兹科夫相比,他将会显得相当没有魄力。
It was like a beautiful bird flapped into our drab cage and made those walls dissolve away.
如一只美丽的小鸟,飞进了这灰色的鸟笼,让这些围墙消失了。
The canal's drab green water rolled along beside us, offering sharp relief to the open desert beyond.
在这片空旷无垠的沙漠上,运河那单调的绿波在我们身边翻腾,给我们带来了莫大的宽慰。
Then Beijing was a gray, drab, one-horse town where the main means of transportation was the bicycle.
那时的北京是一个灰色、乏味、设施简陋的城市,主要交通工具是自行车。
The Bauhaus philosophy is still very much alive today, and cannot simply be shut away inside a drab museum.
包豪斯的理念在今天仍然是非常活跃的,并不能简单地被关在一个单调的博物馆内。
With even just a small touch, a spot of red is vibrant enough to give life to what would otherwise look as a drab outfit.
红色的点缀会让你看起来单调的服装立刻充满活力。
He isn't much to look at: a blue jay-size fellow with plain, olive-drab feathers and a single streak of orange on his head.
他相貌平平:个头跟蓝松鸦差不多,深绿褐色的羽毛,头上有橙色的条纹。
In the world's temperate zones, where drab plumage is the norm, this kingfisher, unlike its North American cousins, bedazzles.
在温带,通常的鸟类羽毛都是灰褐色的,而翠鸟不同于它的那些北美亲属,它美得让人眼花缭乱。
You might use Courier, but I think it makes the page look drab and gives the impression that it was written on an old typewriter.
您可能使用的是Courier字体,但是我认为它会使页面看起来非常单调,并且让人觉得好像是用古老的打印机输出来的。
Think bicoastal travel has to be a bore? That is so last century! Follow these simple steps to turn your itinerary from drab to fab!
想到长途飞机旅行就觉得是件痛苦又无聊的事情?这种想法早就过时了!下面的简单步骤就可以让你的旅行从单调无聊变为兴奋有趣的事情!
Now the bar where I'd spent so many amusing nights, playing CARDS and drinking too much, was no more than a roundabout surrounded by drab office blocks.
我当时曾喜欢在一家酒吧打牌酗酒,开心地度过夜晚的时光。现在这家酒吧也无影无踪了,变成一个环形路口,周围是单调乏味的办公街区。
High moulded ceilings were stripped of Sixties acoustic tiles, but not of the same era's fluorescent tube lights. Simultaneously, the place felt grand and drab.
高耸的屋顶上六十年代的隔音瓦被拆除了,但是相同年代的荧光管还保留着,站厅显得空旷而无趣。
His senior colleagues at Harvard—some able, more of them drab—sent him a letter urging him to stay; it said the right things, but was perhaps a little perfunctory.
他在哈佛的资深同事――一些有才干的,个性乏味的更多――给他写了一封信,力劝他留下来;信上罗列让他留下来的原因是正确的,但可能有点敷衍了事。
I would have likely just photographed the landscape the first time I saw it and that was on an overcast day, when the light made everything look rather grey and drab.
我可能会在第一次看到它时就拍摄相片,那是一个阴天,当时的光线让一切看起来十分灰暗,死气沉沉。
Its bright reddish-orange color is another plus for some, especially those who like to add them to trail mix, because it can brighten up an otherwise drab looking snack.
枸杞鲜亮的桔红色在一些人看来也为其加分不少,尤其是喜欢在什锦果仁中加入枸杞的人,因为枸杞能为这种黄褐色的零食增添一抹亮色。
Its bright reddish-orange color is another plus for some, especially those who like to add them to trail mix, because it can brighten up an otherwise drab looking snack.
枸杞鲜亮的桔红色在一些人看来也为其加分不少,尤其是喜欢在什锦果仁中加入枸杞的人,因为枸杞能为这种黄褐色的零食增添一抹亮色。
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