1·Pope needed to stimulate the outside world to improve their lackluster life, but he did not know how to find stimulation.
波普急需外界的刺激来改善自己乏善可陈的生活，可是他却不懂得该如何去找刺激。
2·Mulling over what his lackluster conference trip revealed about his life, the grad student takes a brief break from reality.
思索着自己乏善可陈的会议旅程揭示了自己人生的什么，博士生短暂地逃离了现实。
3·Not only is he recorded as the first user of more words than any other writer, he also made words up: we owe him eyeball, bloodstained, radiance, assassination and lackluster, to name but a few.
他不仅是史上用词最广泛的作家，还自创了很多词语，比如“眼球”、“血迹斑斑”、“光芒”、“暗杀”和“乏善可陈”等等。