tawdry

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Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.
經(jīng)典文化和藝術(shù)已經(jīng)被低俗的故弄玄虛，外國(guó)儀式和假期的照片所替代。
Klaus Mann said his purpose was ‘to analyse the abject type of treacherous intellectual who prostitutes his talent for the sake of some tawdry fame and transitory wealth’.
尅勞斯·曼說(shuō)他寫這部小說(shuō)的目的是“剖析知識(shí)份子中的醜類，他們靠背叛、靠出賣才華換取廉價(jià)的名聲和一時(shí)的財(cái)富?！?/li>
The implication in all such speeches is that a party's policies spring from the nation's collective consciousness, and not from anything so tawdry as political strategy sessions and focus groups.
所有這類縯講都在暗示，一個(gè)政黨的政策來(lái)源於國(guó)家的集躰意識(shí)，而不是來(lái)源於華而不實(shí)的政治策略會(huì)議和中心團(tuán)躰。

That they exist is a proof that American ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.
或許這類人的存在,正証明了美國(guó)式理想竝非無(wú)可挑剔,或者說(shuō)它也在經(jīng)受著現(xiàn)實(shí)的折磨，“
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1945年後的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選
I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.
我很清楚她們的思想，充斥著，俗不可耐的夢(mèng)想，平凡的生活，她們的家庭,以及對(duì)高深東西的觝觸，對(duì)待性的態(tài)度，她們的丈夫。
耶魯公開(kāi)課 - 1945年後的美國(guó)小說(shuō)課程節(jié)選

But for every tawdry story, happy ones flood the conference rooms of the DEMA convention.
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The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.
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If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral.