tawdry
- adj.俗气的;粗俗的;下流的;花里胡哨的;卑鄙的;卑污的;俗丽而不值钱的
- n.价廉而花哨的东西
最高级: tawdriest 比较级: tawdrier 派生词: tawdriness n.
tawdry
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ADJ-GRADED 廉价的;俗气的
If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste....tawdry jewellery.
廉价珠宝
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ADJ-GRADED (故事、事件)令人讨厌的,卑鄙的,不道德的
If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral....the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality.
她的幻想和冷酷的现实之间的巨大差距
adj
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- cheap and shoddy
- cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Cris
- Synonym: cheapjack shoddy
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- tastelessly showy
- a flash car
- a flashy ring
- garish colors
- a gaudy costume
- loud sport shirts
- a meretricious yet stylish book
- tawdry ornaments
- Synonym: brassy cheap flash flashy garish gaudy gimcrack loud meretricious tacky tatty trashy
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The show concluded with a tawdry touch .
节目以带有一丝俗气的手法结束。
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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?
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These two colours look tawdry when put together .
这两种颜色配起来显得怯。
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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。
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Sheldon : You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition
你想让我把才智浪费在这种华而不实的比赛上吗??
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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?
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The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort .
繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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?
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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。
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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。
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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。
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If those of tawdry color only in a
如果那些艳俗的颜色只能留下一种
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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That dress is just tawdry .
那条裙子太俗艳了。
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Even Keynes , involved in state affairs and devoted to economics , did so in the belief that with such tawdry problems solved , people could start to think about something important .
凯恩斯这时正忙于财政,他的信念是,只有这个问题解决了,人们才能开始思考真正重要的事。
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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。
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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。
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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。
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MANDALAY , Myanmar - Emerging from behind a tawdry blue curtain in the garage of his three-story home here in Myanmar 's second largest city , U Lu Maw made his way onto a makeshift stage to do what he does best : tell jokes .
缅甸,曼德勒——这里是缅甸第二大城市,卢茂(ULuMaw)来到自家三层楼房的车库,他从俗丽的蓝色帷幕后面探出身子,在这个临时舞台上做自己最擅长的事:讲笑话。