艳丽的,
俗气的, 俗艳: chintzy VS florid VS garish, VS lurid VS brash VS gaudy VS cheesy VS
daggy. 土气的, 不时尚的, 土包子的: naff, corny, frumpy, dorky. 不修边幅的: scruffy, daggy. 笨蛋的: daft ): gaudy 俗艳的, 花枝招展的: blatant, blingish, flashy 光闪闪的, 亮闪闪的, brash, catchpenny, chichi, chintzy, crude, flaunting, florid, flossy, froufrou, garish, glaring,
gross, gussied up, jazzy, kitschy, loud, meretricious, obtrusive,
ostentatious, pizazzy, pretentious, ritzy, raffish, showy, snazzy,
splendiferous, tasteless, tawdry, tinselly, whorish, zesty. ditzy = ditsy 傻大姐的, 傻乎乎的, 傻白甜的 a ditzy person, especially a woman, is silly. Silly or scatterbrained, usually of a young woman. A ditzy person is silly and not very organized. She may come across as ditzy, but she knows what she's doing. She played the role of a ditzy blonde. daft I. 笨笨的. 傻气的. 不聪明的. 糊涂的. silly and not sensible or reasonable. You daft idiot! It was a pretty daft idea anyway. Don't be daft - let me pay - you paid last time. He's not so daft as to listen to rumours. I can lose a few pounds without resorting to daft diets. I think it's a daft idea. don't be daft: Don't be daft – of course I wont forget you. be daft enough to do something: Who would be daft enough to pay so much for a car? daft as a brush (=very silly): She's daft as a brush, that woman! II. 疯狂的. 疯子似的. crazy. I'm not daft you know. I do remember what it's like to be young. go daft: You could go daft listening to such monotonous music. be daft about to like something or love someone very much. Billy's daft about football. George is daft about some woman in his office. drive someone daft to make someone feel very annoyed. The kids were driving me daft with their constant noise. chintzy [ˈtʃɪn(t)si] adj. mainly disapproving
I. 艳丽, 俗气的. 土气的. having a lot of traditional decoration, especially
using cloth with patterns of flowers; this word is often used when you
think this style is ugly or not fashionable. Something that is chintzy
is decorated or covered with chintz. ...chintzy armchairs. I find their house a bit too chintzy. a chintzy rose-patterned sofa. The
room contains an assortment of gilt-edged pieces of furniture and a
chintzy rose-patterned sofa. The decor may be rather chintzy and cheesy,
but the hotel is unpretentious, relaxed and informal. You are not
likely to see a pub that has this much chintzy decor back in Ireland. II. [mainly US, disapproval] cheap and of low quality. If you describe something as chintzy, you mean that it is showy and looks cheap. ...a chintzy table lamp. The room was full of chintzy Christmas decorations. III. [US, informal, disapproval]
小气. 吝啬. not willing to spend money. You can describe someone as chintzy
if they are mean and seem to spend very little money compared with
other people. Don't be so chintzy - the whole evening will only cost you ten bucks. I knew I couldn't afford one of their fabled handbags on my chintzy budget. vocabulary: Something that's chintzy is tacky or cheap. A badly made pair of pants is chintzy, and a terribly acted, melodramatic movie is too. Things made of inferior materials are chintzy: "I like the neighborhood, but the house is so badly built, with really chintzy kitchen cabinets and closet doors." Another way to use this adjective is to mean "stingy," or "ungenerous." You might complain about your chintzy boss at work,
who's known for giving workers five cent raises and not paying for
overtime. Chintzy comes from the cotton fabric known as chintz, from the
ordinariness of this common material. Raj: Thanks for coming with me.
Sheldon: Thanks for giving me your limited edition Green Lantern
lantern. Raj: Did you really have to bring it in with you? Sheldon: What
if evil strikes and my power ring runs low? Raj: Come on, let's get a
drink. Sheldon: I don't drink. Raj: Yeah, well I do. And when my wingman
is carrying a Green Lantern lantern, I drink a lot. I'll have a
screwdriver, please. Don't be chintzy with the screw.
Sheldon: I would like a root beer float. Raj: Sheldon, they don't have
ice cream. Sheldon: They don't? Well, apparently, these people and I
differ greatly on the definition of party. Raj: He'll have a Shirley
Temple. Sheldon: And don't be chintzy with the Shirley. Raj: Okay, let's
check out the females. 1. garish = gaudy [ˈɡɛːrɪʃ] 鲜艳的, 颜色艳丽的 obtrusively bright and showy; lurid. "garish shirts in all sorts of colours". You describe something as garish when you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way. [disapproval] They
climbed the garish purple-carpeted stairs. ...the restaurant's garish,
illuminated signs. ...a garishly patterned three-piece suite. garish [ˈɡeərɪʃ] 颜色鲜艳的, 色彩俗艳的, 色彩艳丽的 very bright and colourful in an ugly way. garish colours/pictures/signs. 2. lurid [ˈljurɪd US ˈlʊərɪd] I. full of unpleasant or sexual details that are meant to shock or interest people. Shocking, horrifying. The accident was described with lurid detail. a lurid description/story/headline. II. 艳丽的. 俗艳的. 大红的. 土气的. 俗气的. a lurid color 扎眼的, 俗艳的 is very bright in an ugly way. III. Being of a light yellow hue. Some paperback novels have lurid covers. The lurid 昏黄的 lighting of the bar made for a very hazy atmosphere. 3. Trump's brash rhetoric (brash I. showing disapproval 哗众取宠的. 大声嚷嚷的. 肆意妄为的. behaving and talking in a loud and confident way that annoys other people. a brash young salesman. Self-assertive in a rude, noisy, or overbearing way: he was brash, cocky, and arrogant. II. 俗不可耐的, 俗气的. 粗俗的. big, bright, or colorful in a way that is not attractive. Having an ostentatious or tasteless appearance: the cafe was a brash new building.) has made him a gadfly 大马蝇, 烦人, 讨人厌的人 ( I. mainly literary
someone who continuously annoys another person or an organization,
usually by criticizing them. A person who annoys or criticizes others in
order to provoke them into action: always a gadfly, he attacked intellectual orthodoxies. II. a fly that bites cows and horses. ) with the Republican party establishment, but it has also earned him frequent and prominent television spots on celebrity obsessed US news channels. 4. After being informed by her family that flowers and gifts were repeatedly being vandalized or disappearing from the grave site, even when chained down, police surveillance videos showed Watson removing them with bolt cutters and throwing them in trash cans. Watson later said he removed them because they were "big, gaudy [gɔːdi] 艳丽的, 俗艳的, 俗气的 ( [disapproval] If something is gaudy, it is very brightly-coloured and showy. ...her gaudy orange-and-purple floral hat.), plastic arrangements".
Her grave was unmarked until 2009, when Watson provided a foot marker,
prompting her father to request her body be returned for reburial. 5. corny 老梗了. 旧闻. 老掉牙了. corny stories, jokes, songs etc have been used so much that they seem silly. I know it sounds corny, but it was love at first sight. The pair have been the subject of divorce rumours over recent months, but it's a load of hogwash( 胡言乱语.
胡说八道. 一派胡言. Worthless, false, or ridiculous speech or writing;
nonsense. unacceptable behavior (especially ludicrously false
statements). Sugar said it was a 'load of hogwash' that he was not interested in football. ), according to Ellen. "The truth is, and this is corny,
I fall more in love with Portia all the time. I really do. She
surprises me all the time," the talk-show queen told People earlier this
year. 6. cheesy I. tasting like cheese, or tasting of cheese. cheesy biscuits. a cheesy flavor. I like pizzas with a cheesy crust. II. 劣质的. 俗气的. 土气的. informal
lacking style or good quality and slightly silly. of poor quality
through being overdramatic, excessively emotional or clichéd, trite,
contrived, shoddy. a cheesy song. a cheesy movie. III. 假的. 不真实的. 不诚恳的. 假笑. a cheesy smile is very obvious but looks false. his cheesy grin. cheeseball (pejorative) someone cheesy, lacking taste or style. tacky 不值钱的, 便宜的. informal used about something that looks cheap and of poor quality or something that shows bad taste. 7. daggy 脏兮兮的, 邋里邋遢的, 邋遢的, 不修边幅的 (Australian slang) Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so. to describe someone's untidy, sloppy appearance. I can't go out like this, I look way too daggy, I'm still wearing my trackies (tracksuit pants) and ugg-boots!. Actually this wasn′t too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb. The daggiest house in the Bay, that was how people talked about the Isherwood House. I began to feel even more daggy when Bianca swanned me around to meet her sexy, skinny and beautiful friends. daggy (Australian slang) Uncool, unfashionable, but comfortably so. Actually this wasn't too bad as a jazz venue, being in the daggiest pub in the daggiest part of Capalaba which, in 2004 was still a pretty daggy suburb. dag (noun) A person who's appearance is untidy, messy or who speaks / behaves in a funny way. Affectionate insult for friends. Why are you so embarrassed? I told you she likes you, don't be such a dag, just go and ask her out for a drink, you'll be fine! 8. Well, that is an unfortunate angle.
But who cares? You just won the Nobel. You should be proud of this
moment. I know I shouldn't care about how I look, and I never thought I
did. It's stupid and shallow, but I just can't help it. Am I really this frumpy 老土, 土气, 土老帽的([disapproval] wearing clothes that are not attractive or fashionable. If
someone, especially a woman or her clothes, is described as frumpy, it
means that their clothes are dull and not fashionable. ...bulky, frumpy clothes. To be frumpy is to be out of date style-wise. If you want to get on your mom's bad side, tell her she looks frumpy.
Have you ever seen one of those old one-piece bathing suits that cover
almost the entire body? A woman wearing one of those today would be
considered frumpy. This word has to do with how people — especially women — dress. A fashion model is not likely to be frumpy. When you look frumpy, your clothes are out of date and also modest, boring, or drab. Frumpy is the opposite of stylish. )?
No. No, you are a beautiful woman. By the way, if you're not happy with
those pictures, then make some changes. Get a haircut, new clothes, new
glasses, big glasses... No glasses-- then you won't be able to see
those pictures. frumpy
adj. [disapproval] (of a woman, clothes, etc) dowdy,
drab, or unattractive. If you describe someone, especially a woman or
her clothes, as frumpy, you mean that their clothes are dull and not
fashionable. I looked so frumpy next to these women. ...bulky, frumpy clothes. n. I. 土妞.
A girl or woman regarded as dull, plain, or unfashionable. II. A person
regarded as colorless and primly sedate. better-dressed men routinely experience better treatment and service than their sloppier 穿着随便的, 穿着不整洁的, 邋遢的 counterparts( sloppy I. Marked by a lack of neatness or order; untidy: a sloppy room. II. Marked by a lack of care or precision; slipshod: sloppy use of language. III. Informal Oversentimental; gushy. ) Dressing sharp makes you more useful at work. rustic, uncouth土气的. 9. Spicer, who won a $250,000 settlement in her own 2006 discrimination case against Channel 10 said that "it sounds like it's happened here, where a woman is discriminated against because she either is not seen as sexy enough, seen as too 'mumsy'( [ˈmʌmzɪ] out of fashion; homely or drab. 老妈子似的. 妈妈似的. drab adj. I. a. 单调的, 了无生气的. Of a dull grayish to yellowish brown. b. Of a light olive brown or khaki color. drab colors单调的色调, 单调的颜色. II. 平淡无奇的, 黯淡无光的. Faded and dull in appearance. lacking in brightness, spirit, etc.; dull. III. Dull or commonplace in character; dreary: a drab personality. n. I. A dull grayish to yellowish or light olive brown. II. Cloth of this color or of an unbleached natural color. drab2 n. I. A slattern. 邋遢女人. II. A woman prostitute. v. To consort with prostitutes: "Even amid his drabbing, he himself retained some virginal airs" (Stanislaus Joyce). drab3 n. A negligible amount: finished the work in dribs and drabs一点一滴的.) or is a little older than they'd hoped". 10. scruffy messy or dirty. a scruffy old T-shirt. Someone or something that is scruffy is dirty and untidy. ...a young man, pale, scruffy and unshaven. ...a scruffy basement flat in London. ragged [rægɪd] 衣着破烂的 I. Someone who is ragged looks untidy and is wearing clothes that are old and torn. The five survivors eventually reached safety, ragged, half-starved and exhausted. ...raggedly dressed children. II. Ragged clothes are old and torn. III. You can say that something is ragged when it is untidy or uneven. She
could hear his ragged breathing, as if he had been running. O'Brien
formed the men into a ragged line. Some people tried to sing, but their
voices soon died raggedly away. run sb ragged 操练某人, 把某人打的满地找牙 If someone runs you ragged, they make you do so much that you become exhausted. They'd
send me here, there and everywhere and I'd run myself ragged and get no
place. For the first quarter of the match Australia ran England ragged. 11. florid [ˈflɔrɪd] 花枝招展的, 花俏的. 花哨的 I. [disapproval]
containing too much decoration. If you describe something as florid,
you disapprove of the fact that it is complicated and extravagant rather
than plain and simple. ...florid language. II. literary a florid face is red. Someone who is florid always has a red face. Jacobs was a stout, florid man. 12. tawdry adj [ˈtɔdri] 劣质的, 廉价的, 低劣的
I. looking bright and attractive but in fact cheap and of low quality.
If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you
mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste. ...tawdry jewellery. Their ugly front garden and tacky, tawdry lights fail to reflect our village image. A lot of the city's housing consists of nondescript houses and some districts are downright tawdry.
II. unpleasant, or immoral. If you describe something such as a story
or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral. ...the yawning (to become or to be very wide) gulf 鸿沟 between her fantasies and the tawdry reality. ...the tawdry business of day-to-day bartering and bargaining. a tawdry affair. 13. froufrou [ˈfruːˌfruː] I. a swishing sound, as made by a long silk dress. II. elaborate dress or ornamentation, esp worn by women. frilly or fussy. In
a largely male household, when decorating the bedroom Jane went for
lots of pink, lots of frou-frou and netting. The boots and western
shirts, the wedgies, the frou-frou peasant blouse are delightful. 14. Nobody rides for free. Next thing I know, I'm with a 24-year-old that I met in a bar. No woman has ever been so into me in my entire life. Don't brag. It's unbecoming (I. formal behavior that is unbecoming is inappropriate for a particular type of person. Rockwood was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer. II. old-fashioned 土气的. not attractive in style or color.). Oh, my God. I am so sorry. I'm kidding. This new girl, she take it up the ass? We haven't really discussed it. 15. naff [næf] 老土的, 土气的. [British, informal] If you say that something is naff, you mean it is very unfashionable or unsophisticated. The music's really naff. ...naff 'his and hers' matching outfits. Naf = naff uncool, cheesy: That's naf. Editor's comments:
Note that this is a piece of British slang that made its way to Oz in
the 1980s. You can also take the meaning opposite to its origin, ie
cheesy or even overdone, but in kind of a cool way. Eg "Those jeans are really naf." wiki: I. [British, informal] If you say that something is naff, you mean it is very unfashionable or unsophisticated. The music's really naff. ...naff 'his and hers' matching outfits. naff off [British, informal, disapproval] If someone tells you to naff off, they are rudely telling you to go away. She didn't hesitate to tell intrusive photographers to 'naff off'. soppy [ˈsɒpi] I. self-indulgently sentimental. "I look at babies with a soppy smile on my face". All the naffs songs are soppy 动情的. II. INFORMAL BRITISH lacking spirit and strength of character; feeble. "my little sisters were too soppy for our adventurous games". Ball might be finally be in my court. 16. big bang theory 用例: Are you sure you guys don't want to come with us to Napa? You could
probably still get a room. No, I think we're just gonna have a quiet
weekend at home. Plus, I'm not sure it's a great idea to take Penny to
where wine comes from. What? It's a joke. Oh, come on. We bust on 互相嘲讽, 互相揶揄, 互相挤兑, 互相怼 each other( bust on (someone or something) I. slang To tease or ridicule someone. I only said one dumb thing—quit busting on me! II. To physically attack someone. That group of kids looks dangerous, like they're just waiting to bust on some unsuspecting passerby.). I wear dorky 土气的, 土得掉渣的, 不洋气的, 不时尚的, 傻里傻气的 glasses, you might have a problem-- it's all for laughs. I look like a dork. You bought a helmet and pads to wear
while riding your bicycle. Now you're looking at yourself wearing them
in the mirror, and you don't like how it looks. You think this to
yourself. (something) looks like a (something) When you
want to explain how something looks by comparing it to something else,
or putting it in a category, use "look like a ___": He looks like a really nice guy. This looks like a good spot to set up camp. What do you think? This is different from how you use an adjective. When you're just using an adjective, you can use "look ___": That looks expensive. a dork 土人, 土包子 (nerd, geek)
A "dork" is an uncool person. It's someone who wears clothes that
aren't in style, who does things that are silly, or who has really
specialized interests that other people might think are boring. You can
call your close friend "a dork" if they do something that's fun but not
quite mainstream. For example, if your friend goes to a comic book
convention, you can tease him by saying: You're such a dork!
The word "dork" is slightly negative, but in a fun and harmless way. If
you call a stranger a "dork", they might get mad at you. But if you
call a close friend a "dork", they'll probably laugh and insult you
right back. The word "dork" is similar in meaning to "nerd" and "geek".
There are very small differences in the meanings of these words. English
speakers like to discuss the differences between them, but there's not a
clear-cut difference and they're all used in mostly the same
situations.
big bang theory 用例 Sheldon and Amy are now officially superstars, and the press will be reaching out to their family and friends for comment. So that we're all on the same page, the word we're gonna use to describe them is "quirky." And not quirky. More like quirky. So not Mr. and Mrs. Wackadoodle? Ho-ho-ho! You bitter, envious little man.
lowekey VS restrained 低调的: lowkey ( subdued, quiet, restrained [rɪˈstreɪnd], muted, played down, understated, muffled, toned down, low-pitched) adv. I. used for saying you have done something wrong or embarrassing, and asking for discretion. I've low-key forgotten to do my homework. II. In a low-key or surreptitious manner; secretively; on the down-low. Banter is low-key 不引人注意的, 隐性的, 暗暗的, 不引人瞩目的 bullying. adj. without much activity or reaction. Restrained 克制的,
subtle, not trying to attract attention. If you say that something is
low-key, you mean that it is on a small scale rather than involving a
lot of activity or being made to seem impressive or important. The wedding will be a very low-key affair. He wanted to keep the meetings low-key. He received a low-key but respectful welcome. restrained [rɪˈstreɪnd] I. controlled and not emotional. Someone who is restrained is very calm and unemotional. In the circumstances he felt he'd been very restrained. Livy thought Caroline's greeting seemed a little restrained. I thought I'd been pretty restrained in my criticism. II. [approval]
not too bright in color, or not decorated too much. If you describe
someone's clothes or the decorations in a house as restrained, you mean
that you like them because they are simple and not too
brightly-coloured. Her black suit was restrained and expensive.
