tawdry
adj. 俗丽的,华而不实的
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
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
...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining.
日复一日做交易讨价还价,让人不胜其烦
1. tastelessly showy;
2. cheap and shoddy;
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?
The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛.
She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, 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.
Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
一切似乎都很新奇, 很花哨,而且滑稽可笑.
But then, the world oldest profession has always been a bit tawdry.
但是,话说回来, 世界最古老的职业向来就是低俗的.