tawdry 是什么意思
adj. 非常华丽的；廉价而俗丽的
tawdry 记忆方法
1. hortened from tawdry lace (1540s), an alteration of St. Audrey's lace.
2. maybe shortened form of St. Audrey.
3. St. Audrey => staudrey => taudrey => tawdry.
tawdry 中文词源
tawdry 俗气的，花里胡哨的
来自 tawdry,女用丝巾，缩写自 tawdry lace,改写自 St.Audrey' lace,来自英国 7 世纪北方王国 Northumbria 皇后 St.Audrey,在其纪念日 Oct.17 每年集会通常会有类似丝巾出售，据说是因 于她喉咙上长有一个肿瘤，因此需佩带丝巾遮盖，她最后也死于该肿瘤。由于戴这种丝巾的 人太多，引申词义俗气的，花里故哨的。
英语词源
tawdrytawdry: [17] Anna, Anglo-Saxon king of East Anglia, had a daughter called Etheldrida, who became queen of Northumbria (she died in 679). She had an inordinate fondness in her youth for fine lace neckerchiefs, and when she was l
tawdry 权威例句
- 1. 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？
来自辞典例句
- 2. The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
- 繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛.
来自辞典例句
- 3. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing - gown.
- 她不修边幅,满头蓬发,穿着俗里俗气的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋里走来走去.
来自辞典例句
- 4. 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.
来自辞典例句
- 5. Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
- 一切似乎都很新奇, 很花哨,而且滑稽可笑.
来自辞典例句
tawdry 造句
- 1. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 2. The two sisters stooped, broad, lethargic; stooping, they presented an incredible expanse of pale cloth and a flutter of tawdry ribbons.
- 这两个身宽体胖，无精打彩的姐姐只好屈下身去，她们弯腰时，背影成了宽大得叫人不敢相信的一块白布，还飘拂着艳俗的缎带。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 3. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 4. The main street has assumed its tawdry prosperity with discomfort.
- 繁华的大街透着一股不安的气氛。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 5. A tawdry scarf of yellow silk, trimmed with tinsel and spangles, which had seen as hard service, and boasted as honourable a transmission.
- 一块花哨而俗气的黄色丝披巾，边上缀着金银线和亮闪闪的铂片，原来是用旧了作为一种恩赐赏下来的。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 6. 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。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 7. And trousers that cried with a loud voice."Come look at me, and see how cheap and tawdry I am; my master, what a dirty buck!"
- 那条裤子仿佛在大喊：“来瞧我呀，我多么便宜，又多么花不棱登的；我的主人，一个多么粗俗的花花公子
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 8. She slopped about her room, unkempt and dishevelled, in her tawdry dressing-gown.
- 她不修边幅，满头蓬发，穿着俗里俗气的睡衣邋邋遢遢在屋里走来走去。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 9. Everything seemed strange, so tawdry and grotesque.
- 一切似乎都很新奇，很花哨，而且滑稽可笑。
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
- 10. I looked out from behind the curtain and surveyed the house. It was a tawdry affair, call Cupids and cornucopias, like third-rate wedding-cake.
- 我从帷幔后边扫视整个剧
-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句
美：['tɔdri]