adj.单调的; 土褐色的

drab单调的
来自drape, 布匹，未浸染着色过的布匹。引申词义单调的。

Olive drab → 橄榄褐
Drab Whistler → 褐啸鹟
Olive Drab Cadmium → 外壳电镀
olive-drab → 深绿褐色的；军绿色
drab clay → 暗色粘粒
Olive Drab Chromate over Cadmium → 外壳电镀
Olive Drab Zinc Cobalt → 外壳电镀
life is drab → 生活是土褐色的；生命是死气沉沉；生活是单调乏味；生活单调
Drab Brown → 淡褐色

1. The rest of the day'sactivities often seemed drab or depressing.
[汉]一天的剩余时光好像常常是乏味或令人沮丧的。
——来自柯林斯例句
2. In the Middle Ages the term "drab" denoted a very simple type of woollen cloth which was used by peasants to make their clothes.
[汉]中世纪时，drab（“本色布”）一词指的是一种农民用来制衣的非常普通的羊毛织物。
——来自柯林斯例句
3. Mary was wearing the same drab grey dress.
[汉]玛丽穿着同一件毫无朝气的灰色裙子。
——来自柯林斯例句
4. The city, drab and dour by day, is transformed at night.
[汉]这座城市白天死气沉沉、单调乏味，晚上就完全变了样。
——来自《权威词典》
5. a cold drab little office
[汉]冷冰冰的小办公室
——来自《权威词典》

【Adjective】

1. lacking in liveliness or charm or surprise;
"her drab personality"
"life was drab compared with the more exciting life style overseas"
"a series of dreary dinner parties"
2. lacking brightness or color; dull;
"drab faded curtains"
"sober Puritan gray"
"children in somber brown clothes"
3. depressing in character or appearance;
"drove through dingy streets"
"the dismal prison twilight"- Charles Dickens
"drab old buildings"
"a dreary mining town"
"gloomy tenements"
"sorry routine that follows on the heels of death"- B.A.Williams