drabness

基本解釋

It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing.
雖然我們來(lái)的這天是星期天，可往常小販的叫賣(mài)聲，行人和汽車，這些讓空寂的街道充滿活力的嘈襍聲，通通消失了。
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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.
1987年站在柏林牆邊，裡根凝眡著東方，那個(gè)空洞而乏味的地方，他相信在這牆後是一個(gè)邪惡的世界。
For an eastern bloc nation hungary was relatively prosperous but there was still a drabness to the clothes people wore a sameness to the products in the stores.
以一個(gè)東歐集團(tuán)國(guó)家而言，匈牙利算是繁盛的，但民衆(zhòng)衣著仍然單調(diào)，和店裡展售的商品一樣大同小異。

Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.
ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan
The Hesses make jokes out of affectlessness and drabness—the nowheresville prefab tackiness of the houses and the emptiness of a patch of country so remote that not even popular culture touches it.
NEWYORKER: Napoleon Dynamite