frippery
['fripəri]
n. 便宜而俗艳的服装, 无用的东西
例句与用法:
She often wears ornaments of frippery.
她常戴些低俗的装饰品。
Those fripperies make her look ugly.
那些便宜而俗艳的服装使她看上去很丑。
词形变化:
名词复数: fripperies |
n.
1. 廉价而俗丽的服装; 俗丽的装饰
2. 俗丽的东西; 无价值的东西
frippery['fripəri]n.1.■便宜而俗艳的服装2.■(衣饰等的)俗丽,俗艳3.■(举止、态度、言语等的)炫耀,浮夸,装模作样,矫揉造作;(文体的)虚饰4.■不值钱的东西,华而不实的东西5.■[废语]旧衣;旧衣出售处变形n.fripperies
fripperyfrippery[ˈfripəri]n.1.■(衣服等)俗气的装饰2.■夸示; 矫饰3.■不值钱的小玩艺4.■[废]弃而不用的衣物; 旧衣店, 委托店5.■贱价(质劣)而虚华的服饰, 便宜的装饰品6.■矫揉造作, 故作文雅7.■(态度, 语言等的)浮夸, 低俗Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery.态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已。
[ˈfrɪp(ə)ri]
(pl. -ies)
- [mass noun]showy or unnecessary ornament in architecture, dress, or language
(建筑、服装或语言中的)浮华而不必要的装饰
■[count noun]a tawdry or frivolous thing
俗丽(或琐屑)的东西
- (archaic)frivolous and tawdry
(古)琐屑而俗丽的
- mid 16th cent. (denoting old or second-hand clothes): from French friperie, from Old French freperie, from frepe 'rag', of unknown ultimate origin
frippery
■frippery: n.
低俗,俗艳。
■” Recall the part I wrote just now, it really was quite frippery, which is so different from my usual style because this time I was thinking to describe that angel doll with some flowery words.
回想刚才写下的那一段,确实比较俗艳,我一反往常的作风,在故事的开头想起一些华丽的词藻来修饰那个天使布娃娃。
■2. She often wears ornaments of frippery .
她常戴些低俗的装饰品。
■Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery.
态度和语言的做作只是矫饰而已。
■The Stock Exchange must pour forth streams of money: rivers, fountains, cascades, torrents of money, enough to hire a man for the pure frippery of rolling cigars.
纽约证券交易所肯定在不断地产生资金流:河流般、泉水般、瀑布般乃至激流般的资金流,这些钱足以负担得起专门雇人卷制雪茄。
■And the metallic color of those unbridled fastens skirt unlined upper garment to having bizarre geometrical figure, cast off the old impression of frippery thoroughly;
而那些肆无忌惮的金属色系裙衫则有着奇异的几何图形,彻底摆脱了俗艳的旧印象;
■These words are mere frippery.
这些话只是矫饰而已。