meretricious是什么意思_meretricious怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

tastelessly showy;"a flash car"
"a flashy ring"
"garish colors"
"a gaudy costume"
"loud sport shirts"
"a meretricious yet stylish book"
"tawdry ornaments"

based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"
"meretricious praise"
"a meretricious argument"

中英词源

meretricious 妓女的，虚有其表的，金玉其外的

来自拉丁语meretrix,妓女，来自mereri,挣钱，赚取自己应得的部分，来自PIE*mer,smer,砍，切，分配，词源同merit,polymer.-trix,表阴性，词源同dominatrix.字面意思即赚钱的女人，用于委婉语指妓女。并由此引申多种贬义词义。最终词源可能同market,mercy.

meretricious (adj.): 1620s, "pertaining to harlots," from Latin meretricius "of or pertaining to prostitutes," from meretrix (genitive meretricis) "prostitute," literally "woman who earns money," from merere, mereri "to earn, gain" (see merit (n.)). Meaning "gaudily alluring" is from 1630s. Related: Meretriciously; meretriciousness.

词态变化

权威造句

1. 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.

2. Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.: 她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。

近反义词

flashy 闪光的

barbaric 极其粗野、残忍或残暴的...

adorned 动词adorn的过去式,...

specious 似是而非的

flash 闪光

tawdry 廉价而俗丽的...

plausible 似真实合理的...

glib 能说善道的

persuasive 有说服力的

insincere 不真诚的

deceiving 动词deceive的现在...

false 假的

deceptive 骗人的

superficial 表面的

vulgar 通俗的

showy 鲜艳的

glitzy 闪耀的

kitschy 艺术上浅薄鄙俗但技巧娴熟...

loud 大声的

brassy 似黄铜的

trashy 垃圾似的

tacky 发粘的

cheap 便宜的

gimcrack 无价值的

garish 过分装饰的

gilded 镀金的

tatty 不整洁的

gaudy 俗丽的

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