英语释义

• cheap and shoddy;

  "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"- Judith Crist

• tastelessly showy;

  "a flash car"

  "a flashy ring"

  "garish colors"

  "a gaudy costume"

  "loud sport shirts"

  "a meretricious yet stylish book"

  "tawdry ornaments"

片语

tawdry cheap and showy俗丽的

tawdry y俗丽的

a few tawdry trinkets一些艳俗而不值钱的廉价首饰

tinsel金属箔；俗丽的东西

Tawdry squabble over nothing赤口白舌

a tawdry imitation价廉而俗丽的仿制品

tawdry exquisite俗丽的

tawdry ornaments俗丽的装饰物

Tawdry Tawdry也许不少人仍记得美国前总统克林顿与实习生莱温斯基的那段风流韵事

brummagem廉价而炫丽之物

tawdry clothing价廉而花哨的衣服

英汉例句

• a once tawdry media product has become fashionable.

  这一媒体产物曾花哨俗气，现在却时髦风行。

• sheldon: you want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition?

  谢尔顿：你想让我把才智铺张在这种华而不实的比赛上吗？

• and, against all previous experience of mr berlusconi「s tawdry governments, many people still want to believe in the magic that made him italy」s richest man.

  尽管贝先生之前的的政府给民众的感觉只有华而不实四个字，他们仍愿迷信那把贝先生变成意大利首富的神奇魔力（注：据本期来信版，有人指正说，贝卢斯科尼现在是第三有钱的，）。

• the implication in all such speeches is that a party「s policies spring from the nation」s collective consciousness, and not from anything so tawdry as political strategy sessions and focus groups.

  所有这类演讲都在暗示，一个政党的政策来源于国家的集体意识，而不是来源于华而不实的政治策略会议和中心团体。

• maybe we should resist the tawdry temptation of some transatlantic travelling courtesy of air miles? here are some alternative suggestions as to what we might do with our old mobile handsets

  或许我们应该抵制某些借用航空里程跨大西洋旅行的低俗诱惑？

• a tawdry daily propaganda sheet, the new light of myanmar, has dropped its quotidian slogans inveighing against the 「killer broadcasts」 of overseas radio stations.

  辞藻华丽的官方宣传日报，缅甸新光报，也撤下了每天都会用来抨击海外电台的诸如广播兇手之类的标语口号。

• yahoo!「s site became a tawdry strip mall, with big, flashing advertisements next to users」 e-mail inboxes.

  雅虎的网站变成了一条俗气狭长的商业街，在用户的电子邮件收件箱旁边打着大大的闪亮的广告。

• fortunately, your desire to have only the best things in life prevents you from wasting money on cheap, tawdry items that don't stand the test of time.

  幸运地是，你的欲望都在昂贵的物品上，这就避免你花钱买些既便宜又不实用的东西了。

• after the tawdry saga, this biography by frances kiernan, a former editor at the new yorker, goes some way towards restoring mrs astor to her throne.

  在这个美丽的传奇过后，《纽约人》前任编辑弗朗斯?基尔南为她立传，为的是让亚士多夫人重回宝座。

• that they exist is a proof that american ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.

  或许这类人的存在,正证明了美国式理想并非无可挑剔,或者说它也在经受着现实的折磨

• when they are not tawdry opportunities to air grievances, settle scores or rationalise errors, they tend to be tales of adversity with a triumphant twist.

  作者不是借此机会大吐苦水，一了私人恩怨或为自己的过错辩解，就是讲述自己在逆境中突出重围的陈词滥调。

• klaus mann said his purpose was ‘to analyse the abject type of treacherous intellectual who prostitutes his talent for the sake of some tawdry fame and transitory wealth’.

  克劳斯·曼说他写这部小说的目的是「剖析知识份子中的丑类，他们靠背叛、靠出卖才华换取廉价的名声和一时的财富。」

• but two tawdry facts remained: mr musharraf had never won an unrigged election; and had long been unpopular.

  但他的两个污点依然存在：从未赢过一场他未加操控的选举；长期不受欢迎。

• [font=tahoma]22. the rare wine world is still recovering from the tawdry affair.

  葡萄酒珍品界还对这个俗气的故事心有余悸。

• the channel reinvented itself in 1996 as a purveyor of tawdry nostalgia with pop-up video and perfected the form six years later with i love the 80s.

  该频道在1996年把自己重新定位为以弹出视频方式提供华丽怀旧的供应者，在六年后以「我爱80年代」达到了形式的完美。

• the consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.

  这个老套的故事影响深远，这是理所应当的。

• and many voters, especially in mr rudd’s crucial home state of queensland, still disapprove of the tawdry way labor bosses switched horses in mid-stream.

  许多选民——尤其是在陆克文非常重要的出生地昆士兰，仍然不支持工党大佬们花哨的中途换人的方式。

• there is something a little tawdry about tables and cases filled with old jewelry purses, watches, duck decoys and golf clubs, even if they once belonged to a wealthy crook.

  桌上及箱子里满是古董珠宝、女式手提袋、豪华腕表、高尔夫球具以及打猎用的诱饵鸭，尽管它们曾经的主人是一位富有的「世纪巨骗」，但这些物品看起来有些廉价而俗丽。

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