unprepossessing是什麽意思

unprepossessing

英 [,ʌnpriːpə'zesɪŋ] 美

adj. 不吸引人的；不討人喜歡的

GRE

英文詞源

unprepossessing (adj.): 1816, from un- (1) "not" + prepossessing (adj.).

雙語例句

1. Though unprepossessing to look at, he is highly intelligent.: 他雖然相貌平平，但卻很有才氣。

2. He was forty - five years of age, of medium height, fairly thick - set, not at all unprepossessing.: 他已經45歲, 中等身材, 矮矮胖胖的, 不完全是胸無城府的.

3. Thought unprepossessing to look at, he is a man of immense erudition.: 雖然麵貌令人沒好感, 但他是一個寬大博學的人.

4. We eventually located the cottage - tucked away behind an unprepossessing row of shops.: 我們終於找到了那座小屋 — 它隱藏在一排不引人注目的店鋪後麵.

5. Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.: 但菲爾費克斯太太佯稱這狂笑聲是格雷斯普爾發出的, 她是一個相當矮胖, 不討人喜歡的仆人.

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