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小词详解 | tawdry
Mr Obama’s descent into the gutter has been especially tawdry.
奥巴马的道德标准极为低俗地下降了。
——《经济学人》Few imagined that such a dazzling career would have so tawdry and so sudden a collapse.
很少有人能够想象,如此炫目的职业生涯竟会以这样一种俗气的方式突然终结。
——《纽约时报》
[形容词] 艳丽花哨但廉价质量差
I never considered myself a celebrity. I hate that word. It's tawdry.
我从不认为自己是个名人。我讨厌那个词,它太俗气了。
gaudy: extravagantly bright or showy, typically so as to be tasteless garish: very brightly coloured in an unpleasant way vulgar: not having or showing good taste; not polite, elegant or well behaved
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