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find sb/sth colorless
colorless 常用于宾语补足语结构，表示“觉得……乏味、无趣”。
Many readers find the protagonist colorless.
许多读者觉得主人公平淡无奇。
枯燥乏味的；平淡无奇的；无趣的
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枯燥乏味的；平淡无奇的；无趣的
lacking in variety and interest; dull
Many readers find the protagonist colorless.
许多读者觉得主人公平淡无奇。
此处指缺乏变化和趣味，不是指没有颜色。
缺乏多样性和趣味
lacking in variety and interest
颜色淡的；不鲜艳的
weak in color; not colorful
The story was so colorless that I fell asleep halfway through.
这个故事太枯燥乏味，我看到一半就睡着了。
AI contextual example
His colorless voice made the lecture hard to enjoy.
他平淡无奇的嗓音让人很难享受这场讲座。
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She gave a colorless performance that left the audience bored.
她的表演平淡无奇，让观众感到无聊。
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a colorless and unimaginative person
一个平淡无奇、缺乏想象力的人
WordNet
colorless 常用于宾语补足语结构，表示“觉得……乏味、无趣”。
Many readers find the protagonist colorless.
许多读者觉得主人公平淡无奇。
在系动词后作表语，描述人或事物缺乏趣味和活力。
His performance was colorless and uninspired.
他的表演平淡无奇，毫无新意。
修饰名词时，表示“枯燥的、不生动的”，与“无色的”本义不同。
She gave a colorless description of the incident.
她对这一事件做了一个平淡无奇的描述。
Not this
The bottle is colorless, so I can see the water inside.
Use this
The bottle is transparent, so I can see the water inside.
colorless 只表示“没有颜色”，并不表示“透明”；表达能看穿事物要用 transparent 或 clear。中文“无色”有时附带“透明”的意思，容易导致误用。
Not this
My black jeans are colorless after many washes.
Use this
My black jeans are faded after many washes.
colorless 指“完全没有颜色”，而衣物洗后只是颜色变淡、褪色，应用 faded 或 fade。黑色衣物不可能洗成“无色”。
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乏味的个性
His colorless personality made him hard to remember.
他无趣的性格让人很难记住他。
枯燥乏味的文笔
The report was full of colorless prose and statistics.
这份报告满篇都是枯燥乏味的文字和统计数据。
单调乏味的生活
She longed to escape her colorless life in the suburbs.
她渴望逃离郊区单调乏味的生活。
平淡无奇的人物
The novel's main character is a colorless character with no clear motivations.
这部小说的主角是一个平淡无奇、动机不明的人物。
乔姆斯基的著名例句，字面意思是“无色的绿色想法狂怒地睡觉”，语法完整却语义荒诞，常用来说明语法与意义相互独立。
His colorless performance failed to impress the audience.
他平淡无奇的表演没能打动观众。
村上春树小说的英文书名，中文常译为《没有色彩的多崎作和他的巡礼之年》；“无色”用来形容主人公自我感觉平庸、缺少个性。
In the novel, Tsukuru sees himself as colorless and ordinary next to his charismatic friends.
在小说中，多崎作认为自己与魅力十足的朋友相比，既无色彩又平庸。
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联想：colorless = color（颜色）+ less（无）。没有颜色的画面如黑白电影，单调乏味，引申为平淡无趣。
语域：neutral 常见场景：文学评论、人物描写、书面描述 该义项指“缺乏变化或趣味、平淡无奇”，通常带有轻微的负面评价，比较常见于文学作品、评论和书面描述中。
careless, helpless, endless, restless, and homeless share the spelling -less and the unstressed pronunciation /ləs/, but none rhymes with colorless, whose stressed rhyme is /ʌlɚləs/. Beware the lookalike colossal /kəˈlɑːsəl/, which begins with colo- but has a different vowel, stress, and ending.
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