tawdry
- adj. 非常华丽而廉价的，花哨俗气的；（故事、事件等）低俗不光彩的，令人厌恶的
- n. 俗丽的东西，廉价而花哨之物
[ 比较级 tawdrier 最高级 tawdriest ]
柯林斯英汉双解大词典
tawdry /ˈtɔːdrɪ/ TEM8 ( tawdrier, tawdriest )
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ADJ If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. 廉价而俗丽的
例：...tawdry jewellery.
... 廉价而俗丽的珠宝。
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ADJ If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. (故事或事件)令人讨厌的; 不道德的 [usu ADJ n]
例：...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality.
...她的幻想和冷酷的现实之间的鸿沟。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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时尚？或者只是庸俗？
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A once tawdry media product has become fashionable.
这一媒体产物曾花哨俗气，现在却时髦风行。
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What seemed sweet and sad immediately turns shabby and tawdry.
当时的甜蜜和伤心立马变得卑鄙和恶俗起来。
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That they exist is a proof that American ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.
或许这类人的存在,正证明了美国式理想并非无可挑剔,或者说它也在经受着现实的折磨，“
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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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