After Simon Cowell, the acid-tongued host of the television show "American Idol," called one singer "insipid," Merriam-Webster noticed a dramatic spike in the number of lookups for the word.

美国“名嘴”西蒙·考埃尔在主持《美国偶像》真人秀节目中评价一名歌手表现“平淡(insipid)”，之后，韦氏网站上这个词的查询率迅速上升。

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People do it all the time. It only takes a grim determination to force yourself consciously to interact with each new wave of technology, no matter how insipid it seems.

这种事其实人们都在做，成败的关键只在于你是否有意识地狠下决心强迫自己与科技的每次新浪潮互动，不管它看起来有多乏味无聊。

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In Asia, an insipid collection of regional and sub-regional clubs amounts to something far short of a continental project.

在亚洲，地区和次地区的联合加总起来显得毫无生气，远未能达到一个洲际方案的标准。

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Recently, I observed a CEO address a conference as a keynote speaker with a truly insipid presentation.

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The Spanish variant and the hybrid are more robust than the native, they do not droop as much and have a more insipid colour with pink and white hues.

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Its song, containing everything that makes pop music insipid in one tidy package, has inspired a backlash so hard that a stunned Rebecca herself has likened it to cyberbullying.

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