1. We eventually located the cottage-tucked away behind an unprepossessing row of shops. 我们终于找到了那座小屋—它隐藏在一排不引人注目的店铺后面。
2. He was a man of twenty-five or twenty-six years of age, of unprepossessing countenance, obsequious to his superiors, insolent to his subordinates; 他约莫有二十五六岁,天生一副对上谄媚对下轻视无礼,不讨人喜欢的面孔。
3. His father was a builder, his mother a former servant with unusual literary tastes and formidable educational aspirations for her physically unprepossessing son. 他父亲是一名建筑工人,他母亲结婚前曾是女仆,对文学有着非凡的品味,对其外表平平的儿子的教育报以巨大期望。
英英解释
adj.
1. creating an unfavorable or neutral first impression