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Classic culture and art have been replaced by tawdry mystifications, exotic rites and vacation photos.
经典文化和艺术已经被低俗的故弄玄虚，外国仪式和假期的照片所替代。
Klaus Mann said his purpose was ‘to analyse the abject type of treacherous intellectual who prostitutes his talent for the sake of some tawdry fame and transitory wealth’.
克劳斯·曼说他写这部小说的目的是“剖析知识份子中的丑类，他们靠背叛、靠出卖才华换取廉价的名声和一时的财富。”
The implication in all such speeches is that a party's policies spring from the nation's collective consciousness, and not from anything so tawdry as political strategy sessions and focus groups.
所有这类演讲都在暗示，一个政党的政策来源于国家的集体意识，而不是来源于华而不实的政治策略会议和中心团体。

That they exist is a proof that American ideals are not the tawdry pretenses they are so often accused of being.
或许这类人的存在,正证明了美国式理想并非无可挑剔,或者说它也在经受着现实的折磨，“
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I learned about their tawdry dreams, their simple hopes, their home lives their fear of feeling anything deeply, Their sex problems, their husbands.
我很清楚她们的思想，充斥着，俗不可耐的梦想，平凡的生活，她们的家庭,以及对高深东西的抵触，对待性的态度，她们的丈夫。
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But for every tawdry story, happy ones flood the conference rooms of the DEMA convention.
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The consequences of this tawdry tale will be far-reaching, and so they should be.
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If you describe something such as clothes or decorations as tawdry, you mean that they are cheap and show a lack of taste.
If you describe something such as a story or an event as tawdry, you mean that it is unpleasant or immoral.