1. The food tasted rather bland, so he added some spices to pep it up a little.
这食品太乏味,于是他加了一些调料提提味。

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2. Unfortunately, this leads only to bland design that neither appeals to nor excites anyone.
不幸的是,这只能导致乏味的设计,既没有满足诉求,也没有让任何人兴奋。

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3. I love great icons and cute icons can really add depth and sparkle to a otherwise bland design.
我喜欢好的图标,可爱的图标的确能为一个平淡的设计带来层次和亮点。

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4. Hiding behind the bland language of “diversifying foreign-exchange reserves”, China plans to deploy abroad at least 40% of its $1.2 trillion reserves.
“外汇储备多样化”——在这平淡的表述背后,中国计划将其1.2万亿美元的外汇储备中的至少40%输往国外。

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5. Like the wooden animals, they seem all to be descended from the same bland and adorable ancestor, a wide-eyed, thin-lipped soul with barely any nose and a mane of bouclé hair.
像木制的动物一样,他们都像从一种温和的,可爱的祖先进化来的,这种动物眼睛大大的,嘴唇很薄,几乎没有鼻子,带着毛茸茸的绒毛。

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6. Foods that contain too little or too much sugar, fat or salt are either bland or overwhelming.
含有太多或太少糖、脂肪或者盐的食物要么太乏味,要么味道太强。

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7. These 15 weird &wonderful shopping bag designs take the concept of “love handles” to a whole new level while consigning the basic, bland, brown bag to the boredom bin.
这15款怪异奇妙的购物袋的设计,将“可爱提手”的概念带到了一个全新层次。 所以,把你原来那朴实平淡的褐色袋子扔进垃圾箱吧。

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8. The Obama administration put out a bland statement confirming that its "reset" with the Kremlin will go on.
奥巴马政府发表了一则平淡的声明,表示它和克里姆林宫的“重启”还会继续。

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9. The conversation, the Asahi beer and warm sake in the bar compensated for the bland food on board.
一路呆在暖和的酒吧里聊天和畅饮朝日啤酒,可以算作对船上乏味伙食的补偿。

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10. I tried to convey the two types of light the production employed: the bland yellow light of the American basement, and the light of theater, performance, and rock and roll.
我也试着将这部作品中运用的两种光——美国式地下室中的温和黄色灯光和剧场、表演、摇滚的闪光——传达出来。

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11. His exquisite compression and vividly cinematic imagery are instantly attractive, but the elemental sparseness of his language can often be rendered as colourless and bland.
虽然高度凝练的语言和生动的电影般的意象会即刻将人吸引,但语言元素的简约却常常会被翻译得苍白乏味。

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12. This tip alone can transform bland food in to masterful food.
这一个技巧就能把乏味的食物变得美味。

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13. His books are like Japanese food — a mix of the delicate, the deliberately bland and the curiously exotic.
他的作品和日式料理一样,精致中有刻意经营的平淡,还有奇异的异国情调。

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14. Those heavily advertised attractions that turn out to be bland misrepresentations of the places we’re supposed to be seeing.
那些广告大肆宣传的景点,就是我们即将参观的那些平淡无奇、被宣传得失实的地方。

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15. This is partly due to often bland media coverage of Congress, and particularly coverage of individual members by local media in their states or congressional districts.
部份原因是媒体对国会的温和报导,地方媒体对本州或本国会选区的议员更是赞许有加。

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16. On their own both pepper and salt can be used in savory and sweet cooking – and in combination they can convert something bland into something wonderful.
在他们看来盐和胡椒都可以加到开胃菜和甜点中去。它们两的组合完全可以将一份平淡无奇的菜肴变成极品的美食。

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17. On their own both pepper and salt can be used in savory and sweet cooking – and in combination they can convert something bland into something wonderful.
在他们看来盐和胡椒都可以加到开胃菜和甜点中去。它们两的组合完全可以将一份平淡无奇的菜肴变成极品的美食。

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18. Nobody is altogether pleased by bland foodstuff.
没有人会完全喜欢平淡的食物。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

19. In fact, most vegetables in the U.S. are rather bland in taste.
实际上,美国的大部分蔬菜味道很淡。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

20. bland stories with little plot
缺乏情节而枯燥乏味的故事

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

21. He denied with bland effrontery.
他和颜悦色地厚着脸皮把一切都赖掉了。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

22. Ted could be maddeningly bland.
特德不温不火的样子能把人气疯。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

23. He came forward with such a bland, engaging smile.
他带着一副殷勤的、动人的笑容,走向前来。

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24. Belknap, courteous and bland, had challenged for cause and usually succeeded in having his challenge sustained.
有礼貌、态度和蔼的贝尔纳普提出异议,而他的异议往往总是能成立的。

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25. Mrs. Moss was bland and motherly as always.
莫斯太太还是和蔼可亲,总象个慈母一样。

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26. For a day or two Mr. Sympson continued as bland as oil.
辛普森先生有一两天工夫仍是和蔼得象油一般。

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27. Wizards were purportedly designed to improve user interfaces, but they are, in many cases, having the opposite effect. They are giving programmers license to put raw implementation model interfaces on complex features with the bland assurance that: “We’ll make it easy with a wizard.”
向导的设计目的在于改进用户界面,但在许多情况下,它有着相反的效果,使得程序员可以在复杂的功能上添加原始的实现模型界面,并且温和地保证“使用向导会使它变得很容易”。

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