tawdry
adj. 俗麗的,華而不實的
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.
廉價珠寶
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.
她的幻想和冷酷的現實之間的巨大差距
...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining.
日復一日做交易討價還價,讓人不勝其煩
1. tastelessly showy;
2. cheap and shoddy;
Do you attend operas , or do you read tawdry novels ?
你會參觀歌劇表演,還是閱讀通俗小說?
The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
繁華的大街透著一股不安的氣氛.
She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
她不修邊幅,滿頭蓬髮,穿著俗裡俗氣的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋裡走來走去.
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,話說回來, 世界最古老的職業向來就是低俗的.