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adj. 懒散的；过时的；寒酸的
n. 懒散的女人；邋遢女人
n. (Dowdy)人名；(英)道迪
adj.
（指衣服）不漂亮的，俗气的，（穿着）邋遢的；
英英释义
dowdy[ 'daudi ]
n.
British marshal of the RAF who commanded the British air defense forces that defeated the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Britain (1882-1970)
同义词：DowdingHugh DowdingBaron Hugh Caswall Tremenheere Dowding
deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
同义词：pandowdy
adj.
lacking in smartness or taste
"a dowdy grey outfit"; "a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room"
primly out of date
同义词：frumpyfrumpish
双语例句
用作形容词(adj.)
She looked very plain and dowdy.
她长得非常普通,衣着也过时。
The dowdy fellow is quite unlike the general run of my wife's guests.
这个邋里邋遢的家伙完全不象我妻子的其他客人。
I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.
我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑纱的女人腻烦透了。
She made the other women look dowdy.
跟她相比其他妇女显得太懒散。
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dowdy
1580s (n.), "an aukward, ill-dressed, inelegant woman" [Johnson]; 1670s (adj.), perhaps a diminutive of doue "poorly dressed woman" (early 14c.), which is of uncertain origin. The modern use of dowd (n.) is most likely a back-formation from dowdy. "If plaine or homely, wee saie she is a doudie or a slut" [Barnabe Riche, "Riche his Farewell to Militarie profession," 1581].
You don't have to be dowdy to be a Christian. [Tammy Faye Bakker, "Newsweek," June 8, 1987]
Related: Dowdily; dowdiness.1. Her clothes were clean but dowdy.
她的衣服干净却落后于时尚了。
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2. She was in a dowdy blue frock.
她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣。
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3. She looked very plain and dowdy.
她长得非常普通，衣也过时。
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4. All let a person produce day slowly, life dowdy feeling.
无不让人产生日子缓缓、生活散散的感觉。
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5. Peahens, though not as showy as cocks, are by no means dowdy.
原译文：虽然不像公鸡那样耀眼，但雌孔雀也绝不俗气。
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6. It was about the small things too, like our dowdy polyester uniforms.
这一理念也被应用到了一些小事情上，比如改善我们寒酸土气的制服。
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7. Mark Dowdy is another new addition to the Performance team, but he joined Iris in 1997 from Lotus.
MarkDowdy是性能团队的新成员，但他于1997年从Lotus加入Iris。
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8. But pyjamas, far from being seen as dowdy and scruffy, were once at the very apex of fashion.
但睡衣并非一直是破旧和邋遢的象征，它曾经引领时尚潮流。
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9. She had a lumpy body that hadn't properly moved in years and dressed like a dowdy farmer's wife.
那个我因为常年不运动有着笨重的身体，打扮也像个寒酸农夫的妻子。
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10. "Im not saying that we looked dowdy," Mary says. "She said, You dont have to be dirty to be poor."
我是说，我们看上去并不邋遢，“玛丽说道，”妈妈说过，虽然穷困，也须整洁。
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11. "I'm not saying that we looked dowdy," Mary says. "She said, 'You don't have to be dirty to be poor."'
“我是说，我们看上去并不邋遢，”玛丽说道，“妈妈说过，‘虽然穷困，也须整洁。”’
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12. Mr Galliano is undoubtedly a talented designer who sprinkled Dior's once dowdy fashion house with pixie-dust.
Galliano先生无疑是一名才华横溢的设计师，为过时陈旧的迪奥时装公司带来新的生机。
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13. The latter regards her hardworking dowdy sister as a pitiful fuddy-duddy who has forgotten the meaning of romance.
而后者把她的这个苦干的过时的姐妹视为一个可怜的忘掉浪漫的意义的老古董。
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14. After using the Facebook visual feed for six days, I find the web-version of Facebook downright dowdy, slow and well, not fun.
在使用了Facebook的信息视觉化展示6天后，我觉得这个网页版本的Facebook下载速度慢，不好玩。
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15. Scores of trendy new shops and bistros enliven Hamra Street, long a dowdy, depressed zone that seemed fated never to regain its pre-civil-war glamour.
尽管被人认为注定永远恢复不了内战前辉煌，长期以来显得寒酸、萧条的Hamra街上也出现几十家时髦的新商店和小餐馆，使之也活跃了起来。
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16. Hollywood beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones wore dowdy clothes for film auditions - because she was convinced her stunning looks would put directors off.
好莱坞大美女凯瑟琳·泽塔·琼斯曾经特地穿得邋里邋遢跑去试镜——因为她明白自己出众的美貌太能分散导演的注意力了。
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17. Russia's Intourist hotels have since been sold off, including the travel company's once dowdy flagship hostelry just down the road from the Kremlin.
俄罗斯的因图丽斯酒店后来被出售，其中包括它的那所曾经颇为过时的旗舰旅馆，就在克里姆林宫边上。
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18. The duchess of dowdy strikes again wrote blackwell. infeathered hats that were once the rage she resembles apetrifiedkeet from the jurassic age. A royal wreck.
他说：“寒酸公爵夫人又来了。带著一顶过时的羽饰帽，简直就像个侏罗纪时代的鹦鹉活化石。王室垃圾！”。
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19. Its main activity was to enforce a suitably dowdy dress code, ensuring that women tucked their hair under a headscarf and that a garment fully covered their back.
它的主要职责只是处罚衣冠不整者，确保妇女蒙上头巾、盘起头发和穿上可以遮全后背的衣服。
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20. The duchess of dowdy strikes again wrote blackwell. "In feathered hats that were once the rage she resembles a petrified parakeet from the jurassic age. A royal wreck. ""
他说：“寒酸公爵夫人又来了。带着一顶过时的羽饰帽，简直就像个侏罗纪时代的鹦鹉活化石。王室垃圾！”。
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21. And while many shows portray overweight women as 20 dowdy, Ms. Elliott, whose performance as Jane has 21 captivated reviewers, has also become something of a fashion trendsetter.
许多剧集将肥胖女人塑造成俗气又邋遢的人，而埃利奥特女士出演的简却抓住了评论家的心，她也变成了某种时尚领军人物。
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22. The TGVs are thriving, Mr Pepy is ready for an influx of new competitors and huge sums are being spent to upgrade the dowdy old commuter trains that serve Paris and other French cities.
法国高铁欣欣向荣，Pepy先生准备好了应对许多新的竞争对手，投入巨资来升级联系巴黎以及其他城市的老的列车。
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23. With Herrera's tasteful treatment, though, there was nothing ditzy, dated or dowdy on her runway Monday, even if the bold flowers themselves were inspired by botanical plates from the 18th century.
在海莱拉品味的处理之下，尽管这些大胆的花卉灵感来自于18世纪的植绘盘子，她周一的秀台上并没有陈旧或者寒酸。
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24. “There’s no upside to looking frumpy or dowdy, ” said Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, where the campaign reported spending only $789.72, or enough for almost one outfit.
“看上去象未见过世面或寒酸则没有上升的希望”，纽约巴尼斯百货的创意总监SimonDoonan称，竞选报道仅花了789.72美元，就足以支付整个一套装备。
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25. “There’s no upside to looking frumpy or dowdy, ” said Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, where the campaign reported spending only $789.72, or enough for almost one outfit.
“看上去象未见过世面或寒酸则没有上升的希望”，纽约巴尼斯百货的创意总监SimonDoonan称，竞选报道仅花了789.72美元，就足以支付整个一套装备。
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