gimcrack
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈdʒɪm.kræk]
- 美式音标 [ˈdʒɪmˌkræk]
- 国际音标 ['dʒimkræk]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj. 粗制滥造的；华而不实的；外表漂亮而质量差的
- n. 小玩意；华而不实之物；小摆设
英汉例句
- Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.
装修廉价的商店提供向较远地方的现金汇款服务。 - Ligeia which poe thought his best grotesque story is now for most readers a jumble of morbid self-pity diabolism and gimcrack gothicism.
波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。 - That's a 33% increase in the cost of producing one gimcrack in Greece after you've deducted all the benefits of any increase in the productivity of Greek workers.
也就是说希腊每制造一个小玩意，就有了这个刨除了希腊工人生产力提高所得的所有收益后的33%成本的增长。 - Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.
ECONOMIST: Catholics in Britain - The writer-director George Nolfi, by literalizing and supercharging what Dick sketched out, and adding gimcrack history and theology, has made a strenuously silly digital-action film, interrupted by a wheezing discourse about freedom and choice and other such profound matters.
NEWYORKER: Control Yourself
双语例句
权威例句
词组短语
- gimcrack ornaments 劣质的饰物
- Skysail dactyl gimcrack golem 天帆平仄廉价泥人
- Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath 纽马克特旷野的小点缀
短语
英英字典
- attractive on the surface but badly made and of no real or permanent value
- cheap shoddy
- a cheap showy trifle or gadget