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meretricious adj.1.〔古語〕娼妓(一樣)的。2.(裝飾、文體等)...

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I have seen in his face a far different expression from that which hardens it now while she is so vivaciously accosting him ; but then it came of itself : it was not elicited by meretricious arts and calculated manoeuvres ; and one had but to accept it - to answer what he asked without pretension , to address him when needful without grimace - and it increased and grew kinder and more genial , and warmed one like a fostering sunbeam 我曾見到過他一種全然不同的表情,不象她此刻輕佻地同他搭訕時露出的冷漠態度。但那時這種表情是自然產生的,不是靠低俗的計謀和利己的手腕來索討的。你只要接受它就是他發問時你回答,不用弄虛作假需要時同他說話,不必擠眉弄眼而這種表情會越來越濃,越來越溫和,越來越親切,象滋養人的陽光那樣使你感到溫暖。

A wide range of books on cryptography is available from bookshops , libraries which haven t been reduced through misguided management policies and lack of funds to stocking only meretricious junk , and from various online sources 可以從那些還未由于誤導的管理策略和缺乏資金而淪落到只賣華麗而庸俗垃圾的書店、圖書館中得到各種有關密碼術的書籍,也可以從各種在線資源獲取。

The books on her father s shelves , the paintings on the walls , the music on the piano - all was just so much meretricious display 她父親架上的書墻上的畫和鋼琴上的樂曲至多也不過是些平庸的裝飾。

Meretricious finery to deceive the eye 他砰砰地敲著欄稈。

The perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious aids of ornament or glitter . 遠景就象真理一樣的樸實無華,沒有任何矯揉造作和腦人耳目的虛飾。