英语释义

• tastelessly showy;

  "a flash car"

  "a flashy ring"

  "garish colors"

  "a gaudy costume"

  "loud sport shirts"

  "a meretricious yet stylish book"

  "tawdry ornaments"

• based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;

  "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

  "meretricious praise"

  "a meretricious argument"

• like or relating to a prostitute;

  "meretricious relationships"

片语

A Meretricious Style Of Writing浮华不实

tacky俗气的；发黏的；缺乏教养或风度的

meretricious a华而不实的

Philistine平庸的；不关心文化艺术的

meretricious persnickety Philistine rococo tacky俗气的

meretricious praise言不由衷的恭维

meretricious ornamentation俗气的装饰

a meretricious yet stylish book俗不可耐但却时髦的书

a meretricious style华而不实的文体

英汉例句

• the perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious aids of ornament or glitter.

  远景就象真理一样的朴实无华，没有任何矫揉造作和脑人耳目的虚饰。

• everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.

  到处勃发着浮华和机遇，到处期待着朴素的秩序。

• i saw the beauty of shangri-la, the meretricious of dali, the impatience of lijiang, and the uneducated people of yunnan.

  见识了香格里拉的美，见识了大理的俗，见识了丽江的躁，也见识到了云南人的蛮。

• so it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about china have become as american as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

  所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。

相似词

flashy俗丽的，浮华的；穿着奢华的；闪光的；瞬间的；暴躁的；炫耀技艺的

barbaric野蛮的，粗野的；原始的