unprepossessing

['ʌn.pri:pə'zesiŋ]

adj.（外表）不吸引人的

例句与用法：

Though unprepossessingto look at he is highly intelligent.

他虽然相貌平平，但却很有才气。

词形变化：

副词: unprepossessingly |

a.

不讨人喜欢的; 不吸引人的

unprepossessing

词形变化：

副词: unprepossessingly |

1. not attractive or appealing to the eye
   不讨人喜欢的；不吸引人的
   

unprepossessing

形容词 unprepossessing:

creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression

同义词：unpresentable

unprepossessing

■an unprepossessing little hotel.

一个不讨人喜欢的小旅店

■24 A strange figure is revealed, outwardly unprepossessing, untidy, unkempt, he is a yogi of transcendent powers.

一个奇怪的现象显示，他虽然表面上不吸引人，不修边幅，实际上却是一位有着超越力量的瑜伽修行者。

■2. 24 A strange figure is revealed, outwardly unprepossessing, untidy, unkempt, he is a yogi of transcendent powers.

一个奇怪的现象显示，他虽然表面上不吸引人，不修边幅，实际上却是一位有着超越力量的瑜伽修行者。收藏指正

■One day, Jane hears a shrill, blood-curdling laugh coming from the room, but Mrs. Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant.

一天，简听见一阵令人毛骨悚然的尖笑声，是从那个房间里传来的。但菲尔费克斯太太佯称这狂笑声是格雷斯·普尔发出的，她是一个相当矮胖，不讨人喜欢的仆人。

■It was only a practice session at the unprepossessing T7 club in Alicante last week yet it was not difficult to see which Carlos was extraordinarily gifted.

下半区一切顺利的话，卫冕冠军纳达尔有望与萨芬在第三轮相遇。

■insignificant, inconspicuous, unprepossessing, nondescript, unimposing, unapparent, unnoticeable, inconspicuously, unnoticeably

不显眼的。不显著的。不引人注目的。

■First Sketch of Two Unprepossessing Figures

两副贼脸的初描

■Inside, the place was unprepossessing, the quarters of a worker/engineer.

从屋里看来，这地方丝毫没有吸引人之处，只是个工人/工程师的住所罢了。

■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。

■His father was a builder, his mother a former servant with unusual literary tastes and formidable educational aspirations for her physically unprepossessing son.

他父亲是一名建筑工人，他母亲结婚前曾是女仆，对文学有着非凡的品味，对其外表平平的儿子的教育报以巨大期望。

■He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates;

他约莫有二十五六岁，天生一副对上谄媚对下轻视无礼，不讨人喜欢的面孔。

■Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy , unprepossessing servant.

但菲尔费克斯太太佯称这狂笑声是格雷斯普尔发出的，她是一个相当矮胖，不讨人喜欢的仆人。

■be unprepossessing (or unimposing) in appearance; be of undistinguished appearance

其貌不扬

■12. Massacres are often done by those unprepossessing loners.

大屠杀的实行者总是那些不为人所注意的孤独者。

■The brain has an unprepossessing, jelly-like appearance, protected by the skull and the meninges (membranes just inside the cranium), and cushioned by a clear liquid called cerebrospinal fluid.

大脑的外观是让人厌恶的胶糊状，由颅骨和脑膜（头盖骨里面的薄膜）保护。一种清亮的被叫作脑脊髓的液体为它减震。

■The girl is unprepossessing in deed, but the point is, our son loves her, and she must have something unusual to attract him.

女孩看起来是很一般，但儿子爱她，就一定有值得爱的理由。”

■The trouble was, it did so by donating two enormous and decidedly unprepossessing stone sculptures for which the Florentine authorities have struggled to find a suitable home.

宁波市回赠了礼物。麻烦在于，宁波市赠送的是两尊巨大的，且无疑并不美观的石雕。现在佛罗伦萨官方正在努力为这两尊雕像寻找一个合适的安放地点。

■Despite this unprepossessing outlook, the bank envisages a recovery starting by the end of the year.

尽管前景堪忧，英格兰银行还是描绘了最迟今年年底启动的复苏图景。

■For sentimental reasons I tried to stop halfway across to take one last photograph even though the unprepossessing view consisted of factories and riverside cranes.

尽管风景只是工厂和河岸上的吊车，没有丝毫诱人之处，我还是满怀惜别情感，想在桥中央停下来拍最后一张照片。

■A good place to start an exploration of the square is with what may well be the oldest building in the valley, the unprepossessing Kasthamandap.

德巴广场（古王宫广场）:联合国教科文组织世界遗产保护对象,始建于公元12世纪，这里有大量庙宇，如：库马里巴哈神庙（命运女神庙），有古老的博物馆。

■a rather dumpy, unprepossessing servant

相当矮胖，不讨人喜欢的仆人

■Mr Zapatero was inexperienced, ill-prepared and unprepossessing; he was nicknamed “Bambi”, as he often looked like a startled fawn caught in the headlights.

缺少经验，不够老练以及无领导风范萨帕特罗被戏称为“小鹿斑比”，因为聚光灯下的他总是显得惶恐不安。

■He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates

腾格拉尔现在正向船主走来。他约莫有二十五六岁，天生一副对上谄媚对下轻视无礼，不讨人喜欢的面孔。

■Thought unprepossessing to look at, he is a man of immense erudition .

虽然面貌令人没好感，但他是一个宽大博学的人。

■These unprepossessing fossils hinted that more significant items might be buried in the sediment beneath.

这些不起眼的化石就是线索，指出更重要的东西也许就埋在下面的沉积层。