tawdry
GRE,1
英['tɔːdrɪ]
|美['tɔdri]
adj.俗丽的,华而不实的
n.廉价而俗丽之物;俗丽的服饰
adv.俗丽地,华而不实地
日语:安っぽい
法语:clinquant
德语:kitschig
韩语:천박한
俄语:cursi
牛津词典
adj.
- 俗丽而不值钱的;俗气的;花里胡哨的
intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality
- tawdry jewellery
俗丽便宜的首饰
- 粗俗的;下流的;卑鄙的;卑污的
involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive
- a tawdry affair
卑鄙下流的勾当
网络解释
adj. 非常华丽的;廉价而俗丽的
n. 俗丽的东西;廉价而俗丽之物
同、反义词
同义词:
adj.
cheap,gaudy,flashy,showy,tasteless
双语例句
- These two colours look tawdry when put together.
这两种颜色配起来显得怯。
- You made all others who came before seem cheap, tawdry, and shallow.
与你们相比,我之前看过的其他所有车都显得如此廉价、俗气、轻薄。
- Sheldon: You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition?
谢尔顿:你想让我把才智浪费在这种华而不实的比赛上吗?
- This is a tawdry end to a distinguished political career.
对于里夫金德爵士杰出的政治生涯而言,这是一个不光彩的结束。
- When they are not tawdry opportunities to air grievances, settle scores or rationalise errors, they tend to be tales of adversity with a triumphant twist.
作者不是借此机会大吐苦水,一了私人恩怨或为自己的过错辩解,就是讲述自己在逆境中突出重围的陈词滥调。
- New York Republican Chris Lee resigned after the photo and some tawdry details at the Internet.
纽约共和党人ChrisLee在这张照片及一些相关不雅细节在网络上曝光后主动辞职。
- Do you attend operas, or do you read tawdry novels?
你会参观歌剧表演,还是阅读通俗小说?
- Steve Coogan, a comedian whose private life has often been newspaper fodder, complained about "tawdry muckraking" and the "sociopathic" treatment meted out by editors.
史蒂夫·库根,一位私生活经常被报纸拿来说事的喜剧演员,抱怨编辑们“揭发低俗丑闻”以及对待名人的“反社会”倾向。
- He was looking at some rather tawdry hats in a shop window.
他在看商店橱窗里的几顶俗丽而不值钱的帽子。
- The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
- It began life producing batteries in the tawdry boomtown of Shenzhen across the Hong Kong border, then branched out into electric cars.
比亚迪总部位于毗邻香港的俗丽新兴都市深圳,以生产电池起家,后来才扩展至电动汽车领域。
- The country now boasts more millionaires than the UK and glossy malls to serve them are springing up even in tawdry third-and fourth-tier cities.
如今,中国的百万富翁的数量已超过英国,即使是在艳俗的三、四线城市,为百万富翁服务的炫丽购物中心也在拔地而起。
- The clothes that had looked so beautiful on stage looked tawdry hanging in the dressing room.
在舞台上显得如此华丽的服装挂在化妆室里看起来却俗而低廉。
- There was parking room for motors on each side of the road, and there were saloons, tawdry and bright.
路两边都有停汽车的地方,还有俗里俗气、灯火通明的酒巴间。
- She saw herself as shallow, tawdry.
她看到自己只是个穿得花花绿绿的浅薄庸俗的女人。
- If those of tawdry color only in a
如果那些艳俗的颜色只能留下一种
- They talked to each other and shared their oranges with the tawdry girls who sat beside them.
他们互相交谈着,并和边上坐着的那些衣着俗艳的姑娘分食着桔子。
- That dress is just tawdry.
那条裙子太俗艳了。
- Another reason for the attention to tax cuts at the top is the tawdry role of big money in political campaigns.
各国政府之所以优先着眼于减税,巨额资金在政治活动中扮演的庸俗角色是另一个原因。
- We let you keep your tawdry theatrical mementoes. lsn't that enough?
我们允许你保留这些粗俗的纪念品,还不够吗?
- Is that one learns early what a tawdry puppet play it is.
很早学会了如何处理奢华的场合。
- I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.
我很清楚她们的思想,充斥着,俗不可耐的梦想,平凡的生活,她们的家庭,以及对高深东西的抵触,对待性的态度,她们的丈夫。
- Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.
经典文化和艺术已经被低俗的故弄玄虚,外国仪式和假期的照片所替代。
语源
early 17th cent.: short for tawdry lace, a fine silk lace or ribbon worn as a necklace in the 16th–17th cents, contraction of St Audreys lace: Audrey was a later form of Etheldrida (died 679), patron saint of Ely where tawdry laces, along with cheap imitations and other cheap finery, were traditionally sold at a fair