英语词源
- unprepossessing (adj.)
- 1816, from un- (1) "not" + prepossessing (adj.).
权威例句
- 1. Though unprepossessing to look at, he is highly intelligent.
- 他虽然相貌平平，但却很有才气。
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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.
- 4. We eventually located the cottage - tucked away behind an unprepossessing row of shops.
- 我们终于找到了那座小屋 — 它隐藏在一排不引人注目的店铺后面.
- 5. 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.