英:[ˌʌnˌpri:pəˈzesɪŋ]
美:[ˌʌnpripəˈzɛsɪŋ]
英:[ˌʌnˌpri:pəˈzesɪŋ]
美:[ˌʌnpripəˈzɛsɪŋ]
1816年,来自 un-(1)“不”+ prepossessing(adj.)。
The first known use of unprepossessing was in 1790
1 The walk began on an otherwise unprepossessing corner in Bushwick, which Mr. Freeman explained was the geographic center of New York City.
2 I dubiously eye the red neon sign relentlessly blinking O-P-E-N on the unprepossessing facade of Spicy Talk Bistro.
3 The poor old male organ is an unprepossessing bit of flesh.
4 Visitors viewing the unprepossessing monogrammed shirt may well pity the tortured soul who wore it, who fervently believed that appearances mattered.
5 Korede, a nurse, is as unprepossessing as her sister is beautiful, and as loyal as they come.
6 A broken nose..gave to him a most unprepossessing, almost sinister, look.
7 “You can’t worry about it until it’s time to worry about it,” Mr. Meyers said, sitting in his unprepossessing office at 30 Rock.
8 He was forty - five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick - set, not at all unprepossessing.
他已经45岁, 中等身材, 矮矮胖胖的, 不完全是胸无城府的.
9 John Hurt, an unprepossessing British character actor who, from Shakespeare to science fiction, vanished inside dozens of roles, including John Merrick, the hideously deformed title character in the 1980 film “The Elephant Man,” has died.
10 He praised the healing powers of his “unprepossessing cabin,” the sandwich and celery stalk contained in his lunch pail and the decadent stack of pancakes he was served in the mornings.
11 If Humboldt’s large-scale cannabis industry has a factory town, it’s Garberville, an unprepossessing community not far from the Mendocino County border.
12 That’s when Albert Maillard, an unprepossessing bank teller turned soldier, sees that the men have been shot in the back and realizes that Pradelle killed them to goad the troops into battle.
13 A study in frustration, then, and many actors play the role as querulous, unprepossessing.
14 Few of the works in “Image Object,” a show of conceptually complicated and visually unprepossessing sculptures at City Hall Park in Manhattan, are likely to stop busy pedestrians in their tracks.
15 Nothing can be more unprepossessing than a sea-anemone when contracted.
16 When he leaves work, Mr. Schulkin heads to an unprepossessing warehouse outside this small town in the Adelaide Hills.
17 Often, on the face of it, the work is unprepossessing.
18 In Ithaca, enthusiasts plan to install a movie museum in an unprepossessing storage building in Stewart Park, on Cayuga Lake.
19 The court's loudest detractors are a fairly unprepossessing bunch to find myself agreeing with.
20 By and large, audiences don’t go to the movies to watch unprepossessing people engage in tedious pursuits — however noble or well-intentioned.
1 乏味的
square routine sad boring dull pedestrian tame blah monochrome lifeless unattractive drab corny one-dimensional uninspired run-of-the-mill menial colourless prosaic insipid vapid humdrum unfunny unglamorous godforsaken
2 没有吸引力
3 不讨人喜欢的
unpleasant unfavorable loveless unlikable unlovable unlovely unpleasing snuffy uningratiating unsympathetic stick in gizzard insociable
4 没有吸引力的
5 不吸引人的
unappealing uninviting unwelcoming institutional grim unattractive inelegant unlovely scabrous undramatic rebarbative unaesthetic uninvolving fugly homely grotty unsexy uninteresting uninspiring undistinguished dowdy ill-looking
6 乏味
square routine sad boring dull pedestrian tame blah monochrome lifeless unattractive drab corny one-dimensional uninspired run-of-the-mill menial colourless prosaic insipid vapid humdrum unfunny unglamorous godforsaken flatly boredom flatness
7 惹人厌
8 惹人厌的