frippery
发音
英 [ˈfrɪpəri]
美 ['frɪpərɪ]
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- n.
- 便宜而俗艳的服装,无用的东西
单词词源
frippery 俗丽的装饰,华而不实之物
来自古法语fripe, 破布,旧衣物,拟声词,破碎的,词源同frappe.后来讽刺的用于指俗丽的装饰品,装饰物等。
双语例句
- 1. A case full of frippery .
- 满满一盒子不值钱的东西。
- 2. She often wears ornaments of frippery .
- 她常戴些低俗的装饰品。
- 3. Insiders say cheap and burly shearers did well in the recession , as cash-strapped customers cut back on frippery .
- 业内人士说价格便宜风格粗犷的理发匠在萧条时期生意很好,因为很多客户手头紧,削减了花哨装饰方面的开支。
- 4. While the personal letter , with its grand history , has all but died , the frippery of the colourful card lives on .
- 当有着辉煌历史的个人信件差点消亡了时,没有必要且昂贵的彩卡却继续留传了下来。
- 5. After you 've used the diminutive puppy linux os , you quickly realise that all that graphical frippery that accompanies most linux distributions doesn 't make you any more productive .
- 在你使用了小巧的puppylinux系统后,你会很快意识到大多数linux发行版中无用的图形工具并不能更好的提高你的工作效率。