trumpery

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The thing he bought yesterday was trumpery.
他昨天買的只是一件沒有什么價值的東西。
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.
照常，大部分的東西是華而不實(shí)的，還是他父親手里就開始積藏了。
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Chagrin and remorse followed, and it was not until after full confession to Marmee that Meg realized the trumpery value of fashionable rivalry and the real worth of simplicity and contentment.
梅格感到既委屈又懊惱，一直到她把此事向媽咪和盤托出之后，她才認(rèn)識到這種時髦競賽的淺薄無聊和樸素知足的真正價值。

He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
ECONOMIST: British history