英 [ˈtɔːdri] 美 [ˈtɔːdri]
adj. 非常华丽的；廉价而俗丽的
n. 俗丽的东西；廉价而俗丽之物
比较级tawdrier
最高级tawdriest
tawdry /ˈtɔːdrɪ/ TEM8 [ tawdrier tawdriest ]
形容词 If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. 廉价而俗丽的
...tawdry jewellery.
... 廉价而俗丽的珠宝。
形容词 If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. (故事或事件)令人讨厌的; 不道德的
...the yawning gulf between her fantasies and the tawdry reality.
...她的幻想和冷酷的现实之间的鸿沟。
... ［conventionalway］指民间的风俗习惯 ［tawdry］庸俗艳丽 ［localname］通俗的名称 ...
... tawdry 俗丽的，非常华丽的 taxing 繁重的，费力的 taxonomist 分类学家 ...
... tawdrily 俗丽地 tawdry 非常华丽的 tawny 茶色 ...
... GRE高分每日温习【分类词汇复习】 tawdry adj.低级的，俗的而不值钱的 bauble n.廉价珠宝 ...
tawdrily 俗丽地
tawdriness 俗丽而不值钱；庸俗
A once tawdry media product has become fashionable.
这一媒体产物曾花哨俗气，现在却时髦风行。
What seemed sweet and sad immediately turns shabby and tawdry.
当时的甜蜜和伤心立马变得卑鄙和恶俗起来。
Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.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。
That they exist is a proof that American ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.
或许这类人的存在,正证明了美国式理想并非无可挑剔,或者说它也在经受着现实的折磨，“
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
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。
1945年后的美国小说课程节选 : 耶鲁公开课
How much of the work of city and state government is tarnished by tawdry graft?
But for every tawdry story, happy ones flood the conference rooms of the DEMA convention.
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The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.