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dowdy

美 [ˈdaʊdi]英 [ˈdaʊdi]
  • adj.过时的;单调的;不雅致的;不美观的;缺乏魅力的;不时髦的
  • n.邋遢女人

最高级: dowdiest 比较级: dowdier

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adj.

1

缺乏魅力的;不时髦的;过时的
not attractive or fashionable

2

单调的;不雅致的;不美观的
dull or boring and not attractive

a dowdy dress

单调的连衣裙

dowdy

频次

  • 1
    ADJ-GRADED (人或衣着)单调的,土气的,不时髦的
    If you describe someone or their clothes as dowdy, you mean their clothes are dull and unfashionable.

    ...playing hostess to a lot of officials and their dowdy wives...

    接待众多官员及他们衣着落伍的夫人

noun

1
deep-dish apple dessert covered with a rich crust
Synonym: pandowdy

adj

1
primly out of date
nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
Synonym: frumpy frumpish
2
lacking in smartness or taste
a dowdy grey outfit
a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room

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  1. Fairmont wants a repositioning , not a restoration , he says , adding they don 't want a dowdy museum piece .

    卡尔称,费尔蒙想要重新设计,而不是改造。他还说:他们不想要一个过时的博物馆。

  2. She makes me feel dowdy and ugly .

    她让我自惭形秽。

  3. Her clothes were clean but dowdy .

    她衣着整洁但有点土气。

  4. Her mother was rather plain and looked very dowdy .

    她母亲相貌平平,看上去很邋遢。

  5. She was wearing a dowdy dress .

    她穿着一条款式陈旧的连衣裙。

  6. She was in a dowdy blue frock .

    她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣。

  7. Dr. Dowdy says the blood tests are widely used because of the speed of results .

    Dowdy医生表示,血液检测如此普遍的原因是出结果的速度比较快。

  8. So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy ?

    那么,美女难道要在简历中放一张形象邋遢的照片吗?

  9. She made the other women look dowdy and careless .

    她使其他人相形见绌,使她们显得太懒散。

  10. She looked a dowdy and very plain young woman .

    她看上去是一个不懂时尚且相貌平平的年轻女子。

  11. She felt dowdy as she came through the door .

    她一走进门就觉得自己的衣着寒碜过时了。

  12. Their auto style may be dowdy today but in China , tomorrow is always just around the corner .

    他们的汽车车型或许现在很落伍但在中国,明天总是就在拐角处。

  13. The dowdy fellow is quite unlike the general run of my wife 's guests .

    这个邋里邋遢的家伙完全不象我妻子的客人那一流人。

  14. I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe .

    我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑纱的女人腻烦透了。

  15. Mark Dowdy is another new addition to the Performance team , but he joined Iris in1997 from Lotus .

    MarkDowdy是性能团队的新成员,但他于1997年从Lotus加入Iris。

  16. Why should I wear shapeless dowdy clothes just because Im nearly 50 ?

    为什么我一定要穿松松垮垮、不修身的衣服只因我快50岁了?

  17. A dowdy gray outfit ; a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room .

    老式的灰衣服;干净、阳光充足但完全没有品位的房间。

  18. In a skinny-celebrity-obsessed world , it has been difficult to overcome the dowdy image of plus size .

    在痴迷身材纤细的名人的世界里,大码服装很难推翻古板过时的形象。

  19. She looked very plain and dowdy .

    她长得非常普通,衣也过时。

  20. I 'm gonna be the dowdy redhead who doesn 't know how to dress .

    那我就是不知道如何穿着的寒酸的小红帽

  21. With long grey hair , wrinkles and dowdy clothes , the beautiful actress is barely recognisable .

    这一头白发,一脸皱纹,一身邋遢的衣服,美艳性感的大明星完全判若两人。

  22. David dowdy studies infectious diseases at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of public health in Baltimore , Maryland .

    大卫道狄(daviddowdy)从事传染病研究,任职于马里兰,巴尔的摩的约翰霍普金斯大学的彭博公共卫生学院。

  23. Deciding to have the procedure , called preimplantation genetic diagnosis , or PGD , wasn 't easy , says Ms. Dowdy .

    道迪说,决定做这项名叫“着床前遗传学诊断”(简称PGD)的检查并不是一个容易的过程。

  24. China 's stock market mania has reached the dowdy , two-room offices of the Tiancheng pawnshop in central Shanghai .

    中国股市的狂热,已经波及上海市中心天成典当行。

  25. Slip-shod assistance , foolish inattention , dowdy indifference , & half-hearted work seem the rule ;

    工作上拖拖拉拉、漫不经心、三心二意似乎已成常态;

  26. Dowdy on the outside , its entrance is a riotous stairway to arts and crafts heaven .

    尽管这家博物馆的外表平淡无奇,但其入口却是一条通往艺术与工艺殿堂的台阶。

  27. Hollywood beauty Catherine Zeta-Jones wore dowdy clothes for film auditions-because she was convinced her stunning looks would put directors off .

    好莱坞大美女凯瑟琳·泽塔·琼斯曾经特地穿得邋里邋遢跑去试镜&因为她明白自己出众的美貌太能分散导演的注意力了。

  28. After using the Facebook visual feed for six days , I find the web-version of Facebook downright dowdy , slow and well , not fun .

    在使用了Facebook的信息视觉化展示6天后,我觉得这个网页版本的Facebook下载速度慢,不好玩。

  29. It suddenly dawned on me one sunny Saturday morning that life is nothing but an accident ! a dowdy gray outfit ; a clean and sunny but completely dowdy room .

    我恍然大悟一个阳光充足的星期六早晨其实只是件意外的事情!老式的灰衣服;干净、阳光充足但完全没有品位的房间。

  30. The national team would be given a more shapely kit to emphasise their femininity on the pitch and would swap dowdy track suits for skirts and jackets when travelling .

    国家队队员将领到一套更合体的球衣,以便在球场上突出她们的女性特点;当她们外出旅行时,裙子和短上衣也将取代原来松松垮垮的运动服。

shabby dingy dowdy grubby 【导航词义:脏的,破旧的】
shabby v. 破旧的,破烂的
〔辨析〕

指衣物、场所等因长期使用或照管不善而变得肮脏破旧的。

〔例证〕

His coat was old and shabby.

他的外衣又旧又破。

New buildings have taken the place of shabby small houses.

新的大楼取代了破旧的小屋。

It became a shabby mountain cabin.

它变成了一座破败的山间小屋。

dingy v. 肮脏的
〔辨析〕

通常指某处所阴暗、肮脏、状况很糟的。

〔例证〕

a dingy cave/room/street

昏暗肮脏的洞穴/房间/街道

His bedroom is really dark and dingy.

他的卧室实在是又暗又脏。

The dingy cottage is now converted into a neat tasteful residence.

那间脏兮兮的小屋现已变成一座整洁雅致的住宅。

dowdy v. 邋遢的;过时的
〔辨析〕

尤指女人不整洁的,也指衣着等过时的。

〔例证〕

Her mother was rather plain and looked very dowdy.

她母亲相貌平平,看上去很邋遢。

She was wearing a dowdy dress.

她穿着一条款式陈旧的连衣裙。

grubby v. 肮脏的,不洁的
〔辨析〕

指人或物不干净且需要清洗的,喻指行为或活动不道德的。

〔例证〕

a grubby handkerchief/kid

肮脏的手帕/邋遢的孩子

He wore torn jeans and a grubby shirt.

他穿着一条破牛仔裤和一件脏衬衫。

These are the grubby details of his financial dealings.

这些就是他那些金融交易中的肮脏细节。