tawdry

adj.

1. 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
2. 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

1. ADJ-GRADED 廉价的;俗气的
   If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
   1. ...tawdry jewellery.
      廉价珠宝
2. 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 as tawdry, 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

1. These two colours look tawdry when put together.
   这两种颜色配起来显得怯。
2. You made all others who came before seem cheap, tawdry, and shallow.
   与你们相比，我之前看过的其他所有车都显得如此廉价、俗气、轻薄。
3. Sheldon: You want me to use my intelligence in a tawdry competition?
   谢尔顿：你想让我把才智浪费在这种华而不实的比赛上吗？
4. This is a tawdry end to a distinguished political career.
   对于里夫金德爵士杰出的政治生涯而言，这是一个不光彩的结束。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. Do you attend operas, or do you read tawdry novels?
   你会参观歌剧表演，还是阅读通俗小说？
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
    繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
11. 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。
12. The country now boasts more millionaires than the UK and glossy malls to serve them are springing up even in tawdry third-and fourth-tier cities.
    如今，中国的百万富翁的数量已超过英国，即使是在艳俗的三、四线城市，为百万富翁服务的炫丽购物中心也在拔地而起。
13. 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。
14. 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。
15. 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。
16. If those of tawdry color only in a
    如果那些艳俗的颜色只能留下一种
17. 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。
18. That dress is just tawdry.
    那条裙子太俗艳了。
19. 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。
20. We let you keep your tawdry theatrical mementoes. lsn't that enough?
    我们允许你保留这些粗俗的纪念品，还不够吗？
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. 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。