tawdry

英 [ˈtɔːdri]

美 [ˈtɔːdri]

adj.  俗丽而不值钱的; 俗气的; 花里胡哨的; 粗俗的; 下流的; 卑鄙的; 卑污的

GRETEM8

BNC.21616 / COCA.21233

牛津词典

adj.

• 俗丽而不值钱的；俗气的；花里胡哨的
  intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality
  1. tawdry jewellery
     俗丽便宜的首饰
• 粗俗的；下流的；卑鄙的；卑污的
  involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive
  1. a tawdry affair
     卑鄙下流的勾当

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 廉价的;俗气的
  If you describe something such as clothes or decorations astawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
  1. ...tawdry jewellery.
     廉价珠宝
• ADJ-GRADED (故事、事件)令人讨厌的，卑鄙的，不道德的
  If you describe something such as a story or an event astawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral.
  1. ...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
  2. ...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

双语例句

• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• Is that one learns early what a tawdry puppet play it is.
  很早学会了如何处理奢华的场合。
• Steve Coogan, a comedian whose private life has often been newspaper fodder, complained about "tawdry muckraking" and the "sociopathic" treatment meted out by editors.
  史蒂夫·库根，一位私生活经常被报纸拿来说事的喜剧演员，抱怨编辑们“揭发低俗丑闻”以及对待名人的“反社会”倾向。
• Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.
  经典文化和艺术已经被低俗的故弄玄虚，外国仪式和假期的照片所替代。
• 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？
• 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。
• He was looking at some rather tawdry hats in a shop window.
  他在看商店橱窗里的几顶俗丽而不值钱的帽子。
• These two colours look tawdry when put together.
  这两种颜色配起来显得怯。