meretricious

Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour .

她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。

A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious .

一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的。

He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial .

他断言许多新闻报道华而不实而且肤浅。

Advertisements convey an impression , however meretricious , of the importance of the goods being sold .

商业广告尽管华而不实，却能使人对正在销售的商品的重要性留有印象。

Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism ; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders .

到处勃发着浮华和机遇，到处期待着朴素的秩序。

It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation & as all good things should do .

那是一条白金表链，式样简单朴素，只以货色来宣誓它的价值，不凭什么不可耐的装潢&一切好东西都应该是这样的。

He was a son of god a phrase which , if it means anything , means just that and he must be about his father 's business , the service of a vast , vulgar , and meretricious beauty .

他是上帝的儿子这个称号，如果有什么意义的话，就是字面的意思因此他必须为他的天父效命，献身于一种博大、庸俗、华而不实的美。

So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies , and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase .

所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。

Some states adopt the " meretricious relationships " and " domestic partnerships " . Like the United States , the United Kingdom has gone through a phase of ultra-conservative , however , the reform pace of modern Britain is not as quick as the United States .

英国与美国一样经历了一个极度保守的阶段，然而英国现代的改革却没有美国的步伐大。

There was no other like it in any of the stores , and she had turned all of them inside out . It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design , properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation -- as all good things should do .

她找遍了各家商店，哪儿也没有这样的东西，一条朴素的白金表链，镂刻着花纹。正如一切优质东西那样，它只以货色论长短，不以装潢来炫耀。