查询词典 showy

In my middle age, I don't read for the superficial snobbism. Neither do I hesitate to say no to others. I no longer make my presence with showy actions.

人到中年，我再也不用附庸风雅的读自己不喜欢的书，我再也不会羞涩地拒绝别人，我也不用做出某种引人瞩目的举动以显示自己的存在。

When she couldn't afford the dress, she said it was too showy, She was the sour grape.

好买不起那件上衣，就说它太鲜艳了。好是个酸葡萄。

South African plant widely cultivated for its showy pure white spathe and yellow spadix.

长有耀眼的纯白色苞和黄色纤维的一种南非种植植物。

Foul-smelling somewhat fleshy tropical plant of southeastern Asia cultivated for its edible corms or in the greenhouse for its large leaves and showy dark red spathe surrounding a large spadix .

天南星科的一种具鳞茎的肉质草本植物，产于亚洲东南部的热带，其球茎可食用。

Any of various shrubs or small trees of the genus Strophanthus having whorled leaves and showy flowers of various colors in dense and few-flowered corymbose clusters; some have poisonous seeds.

属于毒毛旋花子属的灌木或小树，有螺纹的叶子和密集的多彩的花和极少的伞状花序丛；一些有毒种子。

She had the aptitude of the struggler who seeks emancipation. The glow of a more showy life was not lost upon her.

她具有寻求解放的斗士的悟性，更排场的生活向她发出了诱人的光辉。

It is affirmed that in the country where this tendency is most completely realized—where both society and the government are most democratic—the United States—the feeling of the majority, to whom any appearance of a more showy or costly style of living than they can hope to rival is disagreeable, operates as a tolerably effectual sumptuary law, and that in many parts of the Union it is really difficult for a person possessing a very large income, to find any mode of spending it, which will not incur popular disapprobation.

有人肯定说，在这个趋势实现得最称完备即社会和政府二者都最称民主的国度——美国，多数人怀有一种情绪，看见有人过着自己没有希望赛过的铺张讲究的生活就觉得讨厌，这种情绪竟颇象一条有效的关于费用开支的法律在起着作用，使得在合众国中许多地方一个拥有很大收入的人竟难想出一个要花掉这笔收入而不致引起公众非难的方式。

From the time our cavemen ancestors goawed their wild-pig bones in front of their smoke fire to our own days when we sit around a table spread with showy linen and shining silver, we have history of change in eating habits from the simple satisfaction of hunger to the meal as a delightful and rather complex social institution.

从前，我们的穴居祖先围在烟雾迷漫的篝火前啃咬野猪骨头，其目的只是充饥果腹，而今天，我们在铺着雪白桌面和摆着锃亮银具的餐桌前进餐，饮食已成为令人愉快又非常复杂的社会习俗，这就是我们饮食习惯的变更历史。

Most of those canonised made no claims to perform showy miracles such as mystic flying.

那些被册封为圣徒的人大多数都没有声称做过什么诸如神秘飞行那样令人瞩目的惊人的事情。

Evergreen woody twiner with large glossy leaves and showy corymbs of fragrant white trumpet-shaped flowers.

常青的木质缠绕植物，叶子大而有光泽，有香的白色喇叭状花组成的美丽的伞房花序。

As she looked at Warrington's manly face, and dark, melancholy eyes, she had settled in her mind that he must have been the victim of an unhappy attachment.

每逢看到沃林顿那刚毅的脸，那乌黑、忧郁的眼睛，她便会相信，他一定作过不幸的爱情的受害者。

Maybe they'll disappear into a pothole.

也许他们将在壶穴里消失