gimcrack

1 Whenever we gathered in his house he would offer, unsolicited, to explain and exhibit a gimcrack he had made with his father's tools, and we did scarcely any studying.

2 These are just some gimcrack ornaments.

这些只是些廉价的饰品。

3 "As if I didn't know that every last gimcrack in this miserable room would fairly scream at him the moment he entered that door!"

4 The place had a certain gimcrack glamour.

这个地方有一定的华而不实之美。

5 “Countries figure out the loopholes, and that’s how you get all this gimcrack coming in at the margins of the W.T.O. rules or outside of them.”

6 It's not a bad metaphor for mid-century Los Angeles; the city's gimcrack glamour is both inspiration for and backdrop to The Drowned Man.

7 The short's big gimmick is that it mostly takes place inside a nickelodeon owned by a more realistic bear, who lets a kid-bear peek inside the gimcrack to watch the story unfold.

8 a remarkable amount of money is spent on gimcracks and other unnecessary items each year

9 No gimcrack work about these villas, they are built of solid ornamentally-chiselled stone, built to weather the storms of centuries.

10 Thank God, no such treasonable design can be inferred from this gimcrack and gingerbread, as you wittily term it.

11 The designer Vicki Mortimer has created a set that feels like a gimcrack warehouse, full of old ladders and lights and puppet-stage-like window frames.

12 So will the border continue to vanish in the face of nativist backlash and a trumpery, gimcrack wall?

13 It developed a reputation as the dollar store of the internet, shipping odd gimcracks and thingamajigs directly from vendors in China.

14 In place of the intricate tissue of courtyards, lumpen gimcrack multi-storey blocks appear, without the slightest pretence of assimilation, and fronted by arid, gated aprons of tarmac.

15 State and local officials are selling off public gimcracks acquired in happier times as they struggle to cover basics like payroll and pensions.

16 Well, according to rule, she came in, found fault with the clock, but took care not to have it altered to match her gimcrack French affair in her bedroom, which she always called her pendule.

17 Whether it was visionary or gimcrack was a question that long divided architecture critics.

18 Fortunately, once the implications have sunk in, Emmott expects take-up for such a gimcrack scheme to be low among both employees and firms that take management seriously – a joke rather than a serious danger.

19 The inevitable flood tide of gimcrack Biden souvenirs has yet to start in earnest, but there are some.

20 "I'll give you a thousand dollars for him down, Sir, and you shall keep the gimcracks."

1 玩具

sport toy trinket bauble plaything gewgaw knickknack sporting piece

2 徒有其表的

formal personate

3 小摆设

bibelot whim-wham trick toy knickknack

4 华而不实

flashy overblown rotund claptrap trumpery gaudy glitzy meretricious glitz flash slick garish gewgaw magniloquent ginger-bread magniloquence gingerbread glittering glittery arty artsy tinsel specious brassy ritzy tinselly tinhorn

5 粗制滥造的

shoddy rough tinny rough and ready pulp scratchy hit-and-miss jerry-built

6 小装饰品

bauble

7 华而不实的东西

gingerbread tinsel gewgaw kickshaw filigree sillabub bobby-dazzler ginger-bread

8 无价值

idle vain worthless insignificant unworthy dud paltry scurvy duff naff valueless niggardly nugatory piffling cardboard vanity for the birds

9 不结实的

barren flimsy flaccid tinny dicky

10 劣质

mean bad rough inadequate crappy bum cheesy shoddy crummy tinny low-rent third-rate skanky rinky-dink rubbishy wanky shonky inadequacy be no good be not any good be not much good terrible crap flimsy low-grade wack poor poverty

11 华而不实之物

gewgaw

12 劣质的

bad rough inadequate crappy bum cheesy shoddy crummy tinny low-rent third-rate skanky rinky-dink rubbishy wanky shonky be no good be not any good be not much good terrible crap flimsy low-grade wack poor

13 华而不实的

fine gaudy specious tinselled plastic slick inflated bombastic turgid meretricious flashy overblown rotund claptrap trumpery purple grandiose flowery chocolate-box glitzy garish gewgaw magniloquent ginger-bread flash gingerbread glittering glittery arty artsy tinsel brassy ritzy tinselly tinhorn

14 小玩意儿

whim-wham doodah whatnot bauble knick-knack jigger doohickey frippery gewgaw charm gadget gadgetry bibelot

15 无价值的

idle vain worthless insignificant unworthy dud paltry scurvy duff naff valueless niggardly nugatory piffling cardboard for the birds useless meaningless trashy junky poxy

16 粗制滥造

shoddy cobble bungle churn out rough tinny rough and ready cobble together pulp scratchy hit-and-miss jerry-built bodge crank out