n.俗丽,华而不实
Unseemly self-exposures, unpalatable betrayals, unavoidable mendacity, a soupçon of meretriciousness: memoir, for much of its modern history, has been the black sheep of the literary family.
失态的自我揭露,难以置信的背叛,不可避免的谎言,加上少许虚华:回忆录,在其短短的历史中,向来是文学家族里的害群之马。
Woe betide the British person who dares to suggest that his country's excellent performance at the Games wasn't a sign of national regeneration but of national frivolity and meretriciousness, to which its population and its leaders now turn as naturally as some flowers turn to the sun.