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。
But it makes a change from the usual drab meeting rooms.
但它仍然改变了以往单调的会议形式。
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。
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。
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。
Just two decades ago, shops had surly staff offering a few drab items, often locked safely away in glass cases.
就在20年前，商店里还满是蛮横的员工，仅提供少数单调的商品，而且还通常远离顾客的安全地锁在玻璃橱柜里。
The child's mother, a pretty girl in drab polyester, smiles without showing her teeth, shakes her head "no."
那个孩子的妈妈，一个穿着褐色化纤衣服的漂亮女孩，连牙齿也没有露，微笑着摇摇头。
She had hitherto been far more interested in the drab ochre-washed edifice opposite, which was the Police Station.
这以前她倒是对马路对面刷成红色的警察局尖楼顶更感兴趣。
It seems like the drab world of C-like, imperative, curly braces languages might be spiced up by a variety of paradigms.
似乎与C语言一样具有单调命令式和括号的语言都可以使用不同的范式形成。
THE locked doors of a public library in West Norwood, a drab part of south London, are an unlikely economic indicator.
西诺·伍德是伦敦南部一片无聊的地方，它公共图书馆紧锁的门不太像是一个经济指标。
BACK in the 1970s, a third of Britons routinely tuned into the "Generation game", a heroically drab television game show.
回顾20世纪70年代，三分之的英国人都收看“世代游戏”一个具有英雄的、让人感到沉闷的电视游戏节目。
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。
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。
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。
One important difference between peacocks' tails and human minds, of course, is that the peahen's accoutrement is a drab affair.
当然，孔雀的尾巴与人类的大脑有一个非常重要的区别，那就是雌孔雀所具有的尾巴却无任何吸引力可言。
These these jackets have shed their shapeless, drab image. The new versions are tailored and can add edge to an otherwise prim evening look.
这些夹克已经摆脱了原来的毫无造型、颜色单一，新品剪裁讲究而且边缘看起来更加整洁。
The reason behind this was that at that time it was a radical and revitalizing departure from the conventional drab box on wheels that it replaced.
当年喜欢它的原因是因为那副在当时看来不同凡响且妙手回春的设计，从单调保守得可称做四轮盒子的前辈中脱胎而来。
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。
In drab browns and grays on a blue background, it depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.
这幅画作有着单调的黄褐及灰蓝色背景，画中盲眼妇女手执竖琴，一边侧耳倾听，一边用最后几根未断的琴弦弹奏。
In drab browns and grays on a blue background, it depicts a young blindfolded woman strumming on the last unbroken string of a harp, her ear to the instrument.
这幅画作有着单调的黄褐及灰蓝色背景，画中盲眼妇女手执竖琴，一边侧耳倾听，一边用最后几根未断的琴弦弹奏。
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