[ 'tɔ:dri ] adj. (-drier; -driest) 价廉而花哨的,俗气的。 tawdry clothing 价廉而花哨俗气的衣服。 n. 价廉而花哨的东西。 adv. -ily ,-iness n.
Example Sentences:
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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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Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque . 一切似乎都很新奇,很花哨,而且滑稽可笑。
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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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She slopped about her room, unkempt and disheveled, in her tawdry dressing-gown . 她不修边幅,满头蓬发,穿着俗里俗气的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋里走来走去。
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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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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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And trousers that cried with a loud voice. "come look at me, and see how cheap and tawdry i am; my master, what a dirty buck! " 那条裤子仿佛在大喊:“来瞧我呀,我多么便宜,又多么花不棱登的;我的主人,一个多么粗俗的花花公子!”
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A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles, which had seen as hard service, and boasted as honorable a transmission . 一块花哨而俗气的黄色丝披巾,边上缀着金银线和亮闪闪的铂片,原来是用旧了作为一种恩赐赏下来的。
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I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. it was a tawdry affair, call cupids and cornucopias, like third-rate wedding-cake . 我从帷幔后边扫视整个剧场。真是俗不可耐,尽布置些爱神和丰饶角热闹得像个三等的婚礼蛋糕。
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The two sisters stooped, broad, lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons . 这两个身宽体胖,无精打彩的姐姐只好屈下身去,她们弯腰时,背影成了宽大得叫人不敢相信的一块白布,还飘拂着艳俗的缎带。