tawdry

英 [ˈtɔːdri]

美 [ˈtɔːdri]

adj.  俗丽而不值钱的; 俗气的; 花里胡哨的; 粗俗的; 下流的; 卑鄙的; 卑污的

GRETEM8

BNC.21616 / COCA.21233

牛津词典

adj.

• 俗丽而不值钱的；俗气的；花里胡哨的
  intended to be bright and attractive but cheap and of low quality
  1. tawdry jewellery
     俗丽便宜的首饰
• 粗俗的；下流的；卑鄙的；卑污的
  involving low moral standards; extremely unpleasant or offensive
  1. a tawdry affair
     卑鄙下流的勾当

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 廉价的;俗气的
  If you describe something such as clothes or decorations astawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
  1. ...tawdry jewellery.
     廉价珠宝
• ADJ-GRADED (故事、事件)令人讨厌的，卑鄙的，不道德的
  If you describe something such as a story or an event astawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral.
  1. ...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality.
     她的幻想和冷酷的现实之间的巨大差距
  2. ...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining.
     日复一日做交易讨价还价，让人不胜其烦

双语例句

• Is that one learns early what a tawdry puppet play it is.
  很早学会了如何处理奢华的场合。
• The clothes that had looked so beautiful on stage looked tawdry hanging in the dressing room.
  在舞台上显得如此华丽的服装挂在化妆室里看起来却俗而低廉。
• 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。
• It began life producing batteries in the tawdry boomtown of Shenzhen across the Hong Kong border, then branched out into electric cars.
  比亚迪总部位于毗邻香港的俗丽新兴都市深圳，以生产电池起家，后来才扩展至电动汽车领域。
• Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.
  经典文化和艺术已经被低俗的故弄玄虚，外国仪式和假期的照片所替代。
• Another reason for the attention to tax cuts at the top is the tawdry role of big money in political campaigns.
  各国政府之所以优先着眼于减税，巨额资金在政治活动中扮演的庸俗角色是另一个原因。
• New York Republican Chris Lee resigned after the photo and some tawdry details at the Internet.
  纽约共和党人ChrisLee在这张照片及一些相关不雅细节在网络上曝光后主动辞职。
• He was looking at some rather tawdry hats in a shop window.
  他在看商店橱窗里的几顶俗丽而不值钱的帽子。
• I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.
  我很清楚她们的思想，充斥着，俗不可耐的梦想，平凡的生活，她们的家庭，以及对高深东西的抵触，对待性的态度，她们的丈夫。
• Steve Coogan, a comedian whose private life has often been newspaper fodder, complained about "tawdry muckraking" and the "sociopathic" treatment meted out by editors.
  史蒂夫·库根，一位私生活经常被报纸拿来说事的喜剧演员，抱怨编辑们“揭发低俗丑闻”以及对待名人的“反社会”倾向。