1650s, "flat, insipid" (of drinks), from Latin vapidus "flat, insipid," literally "that has exhaled its vapor," related to vappa "stale wine," and probably to vapor "vapor." Applied from 1758 to talk and writing deemed dull and lifeless. Related: Vapidly; vapidness.
例文
1. She made a vapid comment about the weather.
彼女は天気について平凡なコメントをした。
2.A sort of vapid eagerness flitted across Winston 's face at the mention of Big Brother.
長兄の話をすると、ウィンストンの顔は無気力にあこがれの表情をかすめた。
3.He 's just another slice off the loaf of shallow vapid pain-in-the-ass 09 erdom.
彼は09コミュニティの浅はかで嫌な人たちの後輩にすぎない。
＜dl>＜dt＞4.The theory is vapid ，while the life is colorful.
理論は灰色で、生活の木だけが常に青くなっている。
5.Is is increasingly part of a vapid and commercialised mass-media culture.