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meretricious如何读

英：[ˌmerəˈtrɪʃəs]

美：[ˌmɛrɪˈtrɪʃəs]

meretricious是什么意思

adj.华而不实的；俗艳的；似是而非的

meretricious自然拼读

mer·e·tri·cious

me rih trI shs

meretricious扩展

meretriciously (adv.), meretriciousness (n.)

meretricious英英释义

Adjective

1. like or relating to a prostitute;

"meretricious relationships"

2. tastelessly showy;

"a flash car"

"a flashy ring"

"garish colors"

"a gaudy costume"

"loud sport shirts"

"a meretricious yet stylish book"

"tawdry ornaments"

3. based on pretense; deceptively pleasing;

"the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"

"meretricious praise"

"a meretricious argument"

meretricious词源中文解释

1620年代，“妓女的”，源自拉丁语 meretricius，“妓女的”，来自 meretrix（属格 meretricis）“妓女”，字面意思为“赚钱的女人”，来自 merere, mereri “赚取，获得”（来自 PIE 词根 *(s)mer- (2)“分享某物”）。意思是“俗不可耐的吸引人，靠虚假的诱惑吸引人”的意思来源于1630年代。相关词： Meretriciously； meretriciousness。

meretricious词源英文解释

Latin meretricius, from meretric-, meretrix prostitute, from merēre to earn — more at merit >entry 1

The first known use of meretricious was in 1626

meretricious儿童词典英英释义

mergeverb

to be or cause to be swallowed up or absorbed in something else : mingle, blend

merging traffic

combine sense 3a, unite

merge two business firms into one

mergernoun

the combination of two or more businesses into one

mergernoun

the combination of two or more businesses into one

mergeverb

to be or cause to be swallowed up or absorbed in something else : mingle, blend

merging traffic

combine sense 3a, unite

merge two business firms into one

mergeverb

to be or cause to be swallowed up or absorbed in something else : mingle, blend

merging traffic

combine sense 3a, unite

merge two business firms into one

mergansernoun

any of various fish-eating wild ducks with a slender bill hooked at the end and usually with a bunch of feathers on the head that point backward

meretriciousadjective

falsely attractive

meretricious 例句

1 The performance is first rate, with Oliver Zwerg as the blacksmith and conductor Frank Beermann vividly bringing out the colours in Schreker's score, but the music is mostly thin, meretricious stuff.

2 Previously when direct challenges via the Patent Office were not possible, these were dealt with by the courts, which had more powers to ensure justice for an inventor plagued with meretricious challenges.

3 Those telling the story today say he engineered a meretricious blip in the stock price, suckering other investors to buy shares, then bailed.

4 It was perhaps just as well that he cared little for comic books, which he called “meretricious dreck.”

5 Our salvation is being worked out not in some idealized past but in the often meretricious here and now.

6 Mediocre actors are often undone by great material, but good ones can burnish even meretricious nonsense with craft and conviction.

7 Despite these drawbacks, the popularity of content has ensured that it can be found on most major websites, perpetually tantalizing us with its meretricious charms.

8 It may no longer have the cult status it enjoyed in its early years, and it has its meretricious side.

9 A happy amalgam of everything that was wrong with musicals of the era — one-note characters, silly plots, dumb songs and meretricious dances — “Good News!” exists only to entertain.

10 The bullying tactics being used to sell this boondoggle are underhanded and meretricious.

11 But, while the sentiments that night on Cohn’s estate were as slobbering as those around Donald Trump’s table yesterday, they weren’t as meretricious.

12 Quite often, when good writers write gracelessly, they are trying to sell us on a meretricious concept.

13 As evidence of this trend, Smith cites Rhonda Byrne's self-help bestseller, The Secret, which he describes as "meretricious", and from what he quotes of it here, I would say he is being polite.

14 Like a stage set after the lights have been turned off, Key West had lost its meretricious charm.

15 Tom Nash has swapped his career in the intelligence service for one writing meretricious travel books.

16 Gherkins, chilli pastes, magenta relishes – the most whorish of condiments spilt their meretricious goo on to the pastas, roasts and bakes of my nonage.

17 People who are capable of the heroic acts of faith required of today's Catholics should not be mocked by being fed such meretricious pap.

18 That stagy feel comes from the chest voice and vibrato, slightly recalling Bryan Ferry’s meretricious wobble here.

19 And then there’s Mr. Pence, a man whose job has been to provide evangelical cover to Mr. Trump’s meretricious version of New York values.

20 Today, more often than not any artistic work itself is subordinated to the "vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty" that is celebrity culture, but Gatsby's pleasures transcend the pleasure-seeking world that it indicted.