tawdry
adj. 非常华丽的；廉价而俗丽的
n. 俗丽的东西；廉价而俗丽之物
adj.
俗丽的，华而不实的；
n.
廉价而俗丽之物；俗丽的服饰；
adv.
俗丽地，华而不实地；
英英释义
tawdry[ 'tɔ:dri ]
adj.
tastelessly showy
"tawdry ornaments"
同义词：brassycheapflashflashygarishgaudygimcrackloudmeretricioustackytattytrashy
cheap and shoddy
同义词：cheapjackshoddy
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
一切似乎都很新奇，很花哨，而且滑稽可笑。
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 main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
权威例句
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tawdry
tawdry: [17] Anna, Anglo-Saxon king of East Anglia, had a daughter called Etheldrida, who became queen of Northumbria (she died in 679). She had an inordinate fondness in her youth for fine lace neckerchiefs, and when she was later afflicted by a fatal tumour of the neck, she regarded it as divine retribution for her former extravagance. After her death she was canonized and made patron saint of Ely.In the Middle Ages fairs were held in her memory, known as ‘St Audrey’s fairs’ (Audry is a conflated version of Etheldrida), at which lace neckties were sold. These were termed Seynt Audries lace, a name eventually eroded to tawdrie lace. They were often made from cheap gaudy material, and so by the end of the 17th century tawdry was being used generally for ‘cheap and gaudy’.
tawdry (adj.)
"no longer fresh or elegant but worn as if it were so; in cheap and ostentatious imitation of what is rich or costly," 1670s, adjective use of noun tawdry "silk necktie for women" (1610s), shortened from tawdry lace (1540s), an alteration (with adhesion of the -t- from Saint) of St. Audrey's lace, a necktie or ribbon sold at the annual fair at Ely on Oct. 17 commemorating St. Audrey (queen of Northumbria, died 679). Her association with lace necklaces is that she supposedly died of a throat tumor, which, according to Bede, she considered God's punishment for her youthful stylishness. Related: Tawdriness.
"I know of a surety that I deservedly bear the weight of my trouble on my neck, for I remember that, when I was a young maiden, I bore on it the needless weight of necklaces; and therefore I believe the Divine goodness would have me endure the pain in my neck, that so I may be absolved from the guilt of my needless levity, having now, instead of gold and pearls, the fiery heat of a tumour rising on my neck." [A.M. Sellar translation, 1907]
1. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
2. The two sisters stooped, broad, lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons.
这两个身宽体胖，无精打彩的姐姐只好屈下身去，她们弯腰时，背影成了宽大得叫人不敢相信的一块白布，还飘拂着艳俗的缎带。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
4. The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
5. A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles, which had seen as hard service, and boasted as honourable a transmission.
一块花哨而俗气的黄色丝披巾，边上缀着金银线和亮闪闪的铂片，原来是用旧了作为一种恩赐赏下来的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
6. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
7. And trousers that cried with a loud voice."Come look at me, and see how cheap and tawdry I am; my master, what a dirty buck!"
那条裤子仿佛在大喊：“来瞧我呀，我多么便宜，又多么花不棱登的；我的主人，一个多么粗俗的花花公子
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
8. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
9. Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
一切似乎都很新奇，很花哨，而且滑稽可笑。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
10. I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. It was a tawdry affair, call Cupids and cornucopias, like third-rate wedding-cake.
我从帷幔后边扫视整个剧
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
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