meretricious

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• 英式音标 [ˌmer.ɪˈtrɪʃ.əs]
• 美式音标 [ˌmer.əˈtrɪʃ.əs]
• 国际音标 [,meri'triʃəs]
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基本解释

• adj.華而不實的；俗豔的；似是而非的

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• Of the meretricious splendour I had heard so much there is not a trace.
  我聽到過很多對此地豪華裝飾的描述，但是我找不到一絲這樣的痕跡。
• Most of the other issues swirling in the lawyer-soldier tornado are either trivial or meretricious.
  律師和軍人爭論的大部分其他問題或者瑣碎或者華而不實。
• Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.
  到処勃發著浮華和機遇，到処期待著樸素的秩序。
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權威例句

• There is a boring Luca Giordano and a meretricious pair of Mel Ramos breasts.
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• He believed in beauty, recognised it in women and, amid the meretricious, created his share of it.
  ECONOMIST: Yves Saint Laurent, couturier, died on June 1st, aged 71

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词组短语

短語

• meretricious ornamentation 俗氣的裝飾
• meretricious a 華而不實的
• meretricious praise 言不由衷的恭維
• a meretricious style 華而不實的文躰
• a meretricious yet stylish book 俗不可耐但卻時髦的書;華而不實的服裝

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英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• seeming attractive but really false or of little value

柯林斯英英字典

• If you describe something as meretricious, you disapprove of it because although it looks attractive it is actually of little value.

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