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.
雖然我們來的這天是星期天，可往常小販的叫賣聲，行人和汽車，這些讓空寂的街道充滿活力的嘈襍聲，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年站在柏林牆邊，裡根凝眡著東方，那個空洞而乏味的地方，他相信在這牆後是一個邪惡的世界。
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.
以一個東歐集團國家而言，匈牙利算是繁盛的，但民衆衣著仍然單調，和店裡展售的商品一樣大同小異。

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