drabness

基本解释

It doesn't help that today is a Sunday, so the usual bustle of hawkers, pedestrians and cars that enliven the empty drabness are missing.
虽然我们来的这天是星期天，可往常小贩的叫卖声，行人和汽车，这些让空寂的街道充满活力的嘈杂声，通通消失了。
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Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.
1987年站在柏林墙边，里根凝视着东方，那个空洞而乏味的地方，他相信在这墙后是一个邪恶的世界。
For an eastern bloc nation hungary was relatively prosperous but there was still a drabness to the clothes people wore a sameness to the products in the stores.
以一个东欧集团国家而言，匈牙利算是繁盛的，但民众衣著仍然单调，和店里展售的商品一样大同小异。

Standing at the Berlin Wall in 1987, he looked over to the east and, struck by its drabness and emptiness, knew that the system behind it was evil.
ECONOMIST: Ronald Reagan
The Hesses make jokes out of affectlessness and drabness—the nowheresville prefab tackiness of the houses and the emptiness of a patch of country so remote that not even popular culture touches it.
NEWYORKER: Napoleon Dynamite