-扩展释义
扩展解释:
a.【主英】【俚】1.肮脏的,2.可怜的,3.不愉快的,4.吝啬的
例句
||1:Network engineering is not a glamorous profession, and the physical structures of the greatest network ever built lack the grandeur of a hydroelectric dam or a continent-spanning railway.||2:But they do have their own style: featureless, virtually deserted buildings, full of marching rows of high-tech servers and routers fed by thick bundles of cable, their cooling fans forming a roaring chorus in the chilly gloom.||3:That style is modulated by the local culture of wherever the building happens to be.||4:Thus one American firm goes for a super high-tech, “cyberrific” look in an attempt to impress clients.||5:Frankfurt’s internet exchange is a model of cool rationality, whereas London’s is grotty and coming apart at the seams.
||1:网络工程并非一个光鲜的行业,而且最为庞大网络的实物构造缺乏水电大坝的宏伟壮观,也没有洲际铁路的绵延大气。||2:但它确实有自己的特点:普普通通、几乎废弃的大楼里,整齐地排满了富含高科技的服务器和路由器,由厚厚的几捆电缆连接起来,它们的散热风扇在冷清昏暗中组成了一支正在高歌的合唱队。||3:无论大楼在哪,这种特点都会受到本地文化的影响。||4:因此,一个追求超高科技风格的美国公司,打造“网络交通”的外观是给客户留下深刻印象的一种尝试途径。||5:法兰克福网络交换中心就是良好理性的一个模板,而伦敦的则是脏乱带着些破裂。
Still, when Graham Weston, the company’s co-founder and chairman, suggested that they move into a shopping mall, staff were sceptical. The mall was vacant. Its site, the encircled suburb of Windcrest, was slightly grotty , not least because of the huge dead mall right off the highway.
即便如此,当公司的创建人之一兼主席Graham Weston表示他们要搬到一家购物中心时,员工们都还将信将疑。那时候商场是空置的,地点位于Windcrest这个被包围着的郊区,外观不太好看,相当重要的原因是这座空无一人的大型商场正位于公路的出口处。
adjective
1.Unpleasant and of poor quality.
‘a _grotty_ little hotel’
‘Inside those _grotty_ beer-stained sweatpants is a smart, funny, well-dressed man waiting to emerge.’
2.Unwell.
‘I felt _grotty_ and had to leave early’
‘First of all, I’m off work with some sort of ‘flu bug, feeling extremely _grotty_ .’
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