meretricious
adj. 俗气的；娼妓的；华丽而庸俗的
adj.
俗艳的，华而不实的；俗不可耐；
英英释义
meretricious[ ,meri'triʃəs ]
adj.
like or relating to a prostitute
"meretricious relationships"
tastelessly showy
"a meretricious yet stylish book"
同义词：brassycheapflashflashygarishgaudygimcrackloudtackytattytawdrytrashy
based on pretense; deceptively pleasing
"meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument"
同义词：gildedspecious
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
the books on her father s shelves , the paintings on the walls , the music on the piano - all was just so much meretricious display.
她父亲架上的书墙上的画和钢琴上的乐曲至多也不过是些平庸的装饰。
权威例句
Medicine: meritorious or meretriciousMeretricious mensuration.
Mechanisms of metabolic mischief--meritorious or meretricious?
An Essay on Contract and Status: Race, Marriage, and the Meretricious Spouse
Are effective or meritorious schools meretricious?
Meretricious Mixtures: Gold, Dung, and the "Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale"
Rights of the Putative and Meretricious Spouse in California
Domestic Relations - Legitimacy of Offspring - Presumption of Marriage Subsequent to Meretricious Relationship
The Meretricious Letter of the Libro de Buen Amor
On Meretricious Reasoning in Literary and Art Criticisms
meretricious (adj.)
1620s, "pertaining to harlots," from Latin meretricius "of or pertaining to prostitutes," from meretrix (genitive meretricis) "prostitute," literally "woman who earns money," from merere, mereri "to earn, gain" (see merit (n.)). Meaning "gaudily alluring" is from 1630s. Related: Meretriciously; meretriciousness.
1. Cheap and showy; meretricious.
廉价而俗丽的；浮华的
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
2. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
3. meretricious relationships.
嫖娼关系
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
4. a meretricious style
华而不实的文体
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
5. the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility; meretricious praise; a meretricious argument.
金玉其外，败絮其内；言不由衷的恭维；虚有其表的争论。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
6. in a meretricious manner.
以华丽而庸俗的方式。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
7. meretricious praise
言不由衷的恭维
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
8. A meretricious argument.
似是而非的论点
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 短句参考
9. a meretricious style, book, argument
华而不实的文体、 言之无物的书、 迂阔之论.
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
10. a flash car; a flashy ring; garish colors; a gaudy costume; loud sport shirts; a meretricious yet stylish book; tawdry ornaments.
廉价而华丽的小车；庸俗的颜色；华而不实的服装；廉价的运动衫；华丽庸俗但很时髦的书；俗丽的装饰物。
-- 来源 -- 汉英 - 翻译参考
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