frippery meaning in English
n.
1.(衣服等)俗气的装饰;(文体等)拙劣的修饰。
2.浮夸;无聊的东西。
Examples
- Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery
态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已。 - She often wears ornaments of frippery
她常戴些低俗的装饰品。 - The appeal of such fripperies palls faster than people expect , they say
他们声称不必要的昂贵饰品的吸引力的消失比人们的预期要快得多。 - Where drugs to change personality traits were once seen as medicinal fripperies , or enhancements , they are now seen as entitlements
那里,药物改变了人格特性一度曾被看作是医学上的无用,或进步,它们现在被看作是权利。 - And as bryan caplan , of george mason university , points out , many trinkets and fripperies themselves provide a stream of experiences
就像乔治?梅森大学的布赖恩?卡普兰指出的那样,许多小玩意儿、不必要的昂贵饰品本身就提供了一连串的经历。