我们原来介绍过eye candy这个词，说的是颇具吸引力的养眼美女。那如果是其貌不扬、长相平庸的人英语要怎么表达呢？现在英语里有对应的词了，这就是eye broccoli.

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　　Eye broccoli refers to an unattractive person. This is the physical antithesis of eye candy, a phrase that first starting appearing in print in the mid-1980s and refers to visually appealing persons or effects used to draw mass attention. (Source: Word Spy)

　　Eye broccoli指长相普通，没什么姿色的人。这个词是eye candy的反义词，eye candy一词最早出现于20世纪80年代，指外表很有吸引力的人或者用于吸引大众注意的特殊效果。

　　This expression was first used on How I Met Your Mother by Barney to describe Marshall's secretary。

　　Eye broccoli’这个说法最早出现在美剧《老爸老妈浪漫史》中，Barney用这个词形容Marshall的秘书。

　　Barney: So, who's the eye broccoli?

　　那个丑女是谁啊？

　　Marshall: Hey, that's Iris, my new assistant. And yes, she is a little plain, but I'm married, so that's good.

　　喂，那是Iris，人家是我的新助手。她的确是其貌不扬，不过我都结婚了，这样不是挺好的么。