dead-alive

短语

a. 没精打采的, 单调的

词形变化

more dead-alive 比较级 most dead-alive 最高级

释义与例句

adj.
  1. 1.

    Dull; lifeless; lacking originality and vitality.

    1906, Hilaire Belloc, , introduction to Essays in Literature and History by James Anthony Froude In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.