meretricious
- adj.华而不实的;虚有其表的;金玉其外的
adj
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- based on pretense;deceptively pleasing
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
- meretricious praise
- a meretricious argument
- Synonym: gilded specious
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2
- tastelessly showy
- a flash car
- a flashy ring
- garish colors
- a gaudy costume
- loud sport shirts
- a meretricious yet stylish book
- tawdry ornaments
- Synonym: brassy cheap flash flashy garish gaudy gimcrack loud tacky tatty tawdry trashy
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- like or relating to a prostitute
- meretricious relationships
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Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour .
她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。
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A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious .
一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的。
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He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial .
他断言许多新闻报道华而不实而且肤浅。
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Advertisements convey an impression , however meretricious , of the importance of the goods being sold .
商业广告尽管华而不实,却能使人对正在销售的商品的重要性留有印象。
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Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism ; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders .
到处勃发着浮华和机遇,到处期待着朴素的秩序。
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It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation & as all good things should do .
那是一条白金表链,式样简单朴素,只以货色来宣誓它的价值,不凭什么不可耐的装潢&一切好东西都应该是这样的。
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He was a son of god a phrase which , if it means anything , means just that and he must be about his father 's business , the service of a vast , vulgar , and meretricious beauty .
他是上帝的儿子这个称号,如果有什么意义的话,就是字面的意思因此他必须为他的天父效命,献身于一种博大、庸俗、华而不实的美。
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So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies , and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase .
所以毫不奇怪,既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价,也有说教的预言和忠告,称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。
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Some states adopt the " meretricious relationships " and " domestic partnerships " . Like the United States , the United Kingdom has gone through a phase of ultra-conservative , however , the reform pace of modern Britain is not as quick as the United States .
英国与美国一样经历了一个极度保守的阶段,然而英国现代的改革却没有美国的步伐大。
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There was no other like it in any of the stores , and she had turned all of them inside out . It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation -- as all good things should do .
她找遍了各家商店,哪儿也没有这样的东西,一条朴素的白金表链,镂刻着花纹。正如一切优质东西那样,它只以货色论长短,不以装潢来炫耀。