ersatz

adj.

1. 人造的，代用的，合成的（因而质量不如真品）
   artificial and not as good as the real thing or product
   1. ersatz coffee
      咖啡替代品

1. ADJ 仿造的;伪造的;劣质的
   If you describe something as ersatz, you dislike it because it is not genuine and is a poor imitation of something better.
   1. ...an ersatz Victorian shopping precinct...
      仿照维多利亚风格建立的购物区
   2. The ersatz spontaneity of 'Sunday Love' sounds especially hollow.
      对《星期天的爱情》这首歌的即兴模仿听起来尤其空洞。
2. ADJ 代用的；劣质的
   An ersatz product is a poor quality product that is used to replace something that is not available.
   1. There were few provisions available in exchange for food stamps: ersatz coffee, macaroni, small cubes of margarine.
      可以用来换取粮票的食物只有这些：代用咖啡、通心粉和小块的人造黄油。

1. The ersatz spontaneity of 'Sunday Love' sounds especially hollow.
   对《星期天的爱情》这首歌的即兴模仿听起来尤其空洞。
2. There were few provisions available in exchange for food stamps: ersatz coffee, macaroni, small cubes of margarine.
   可以用来换取粮票的食物只有这些：代用咖啡、通心粉和小块的人造黄油。
3. When asked if the design of one of a range of ersatz smart watches on the front desk of her stand looked familiar, one employee of Shenzhen-based Zhuhai Liming Industries giggled and said: Apple?
   记者问深圳珠海利明实业的一名女员工，展台上的一款智能手表仿品的设计是否有些眼熟时，她笑道：是像苹果吗？
4. But the connection that comes from technology is often an unfulfilling, ersatz version of connection.
   但源自技术的连接往往不能给人带来满足，因为它是一种伪连接。
5. I'm allowed to eat ersatz chocolate made from carob beans, but it's a poor substitute for the real thing.
   我可以吃用角豆荚制的代用巧克力，但它是一种原物的低劣代替品。
6. It scarcely seems to matter that most of these schools are ersatz affairs with few conventional qualifications.
   这里绝大多数的学校几乎没有传统的痕迹，因为没有人在意这些。
7. An ersatz form of eurozone bond issued by the European financial stability facility already exists.
   况且，目前已经存在由欧洲金融稳定安排（efsf）发行的另一种欧元区债券。
8. Directed by Mark Osborne and John Stevenson, the film is brisk and businesslike, with an appropriately ersatz Chinatown look, but it doesn't betray any personality beyond Black's.
   由马克·奥斯本和约翰·斯蒂文森执导，这部电影可以说是轻快活泼，条理有致，加上精确合成的唐人街外观&但是它并没有显露出布莱克之外的其他配音演员的性格。
9. The most that the citizens of Ukraine and the Baltic states should have expected was the ersatz independence now bestowed on South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
   乌克兰和波罗的海诸国公民所能期望的，最多也就是南奥塞梯和阿布哈兹所获得的虚假独立。
10. Tourists are the ones having the ersatz experience.
    观光客得到的是一种模拟的感受。
11. In the16 months since the first graft, the ersatz skin has not been rejected by any of the patients.
    第一次植皮后的16个月内人造皮肤在每个病人身上都没有受到排斥。
12. It may buy some small symbolic quantity of southern European bonds, as an ersatz commitment to the future of the EU.
    中国可能会象征性地购买少量南欧国家债券，作为对欧盟未来的名义上的承诺。
13. Much Soviet gear is of an ersatz nature, to the point that nothing can really be called the standard issue.
    苏联的装备基本上都是些代用品，没有什么能称得上是标准化的装备。
14. We should not start looking for ersatz issues and forget the topic of financial market regulation.
    她表示：我们不应该开始寻找替代问题，而忘记金融市场监管这一议题。
15. There is a flourishing trade in ersatz ginseng.
    人参代用品的买卖很兴隆。
16. It tasted more like ersatz coffee to me.
    我觉得它的味道更像代用咖啡。
17. The two institutions are majestic and columned, with the ersatz Roman look that Americans bestow on important civic buildings.
    雄伟的艺术学院和图书馆有着美国人赋予重要城市建筑的仿罗马风格，圆柱林立。
18. Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor, warned that global imbalances were an "ersatz" issue, which served to deflect from the real agenda, by which I presume she meant the regulation of bonus payments.
    德国总理安格拉默克尔（angelamerkel）警告，全球失衡是一个“替代”问题，使关注焦点偏离了真正的议题我猜她指的是对奖金发放的监管。
19. The Java Log – Invented by Canadian Rod Smules, this ersatz firewood is made from recycled coffee grounds.
    爪哇木柴&由加拿大人罗德。斯谬尔斯发明。这种木柴代替品是由回收的咖啡渣制造而成。
20. But Mr Caruso has brought the open-air mall to a pitch of ersatz perfection.
    但卡鲁索已使露天购物商城的功能发挥到了人工的尽善尽美的程度。

noun

1. an artificial or inferior substitute or imitation

adj

1. artificial and inferior
   1. ersatz coffee
   2. substitute coffee

   Synonym:    substitute