橘子朗文词典

gimcrack

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音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈdʒɪm.kræk]
  • 美式音标 [ˈdʒɪmˌkræk]
  • 国际音标 ['dʒimkræk]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 粗制滥造的；华而不实的；外表漂亮而质量差的
  • n. 小玩意；华而不实之物；小摆设

同根派生

  • n性质的同根词
    gimcrackery：虚华不实之物或装饰；（文艺作品中）刻意造成的效果。

英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.
    装修廉价的商店提供向较远地方的现金汇款服务。
  • Ligeia which poe thought his best grotesque story is now for most readers a jumble of morbid self-pity diabolism and gimcrack gothicism.
    波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。
  • That's a 33% increase in the cost of producing one gimcrack in Greece after you've deducted all the benefits of any increase in the productivity of Greek workers.
    也就是说希腊每制造一个小玩意，就有了这个刨除了希腊工人生产力提高所得的所有收益后的33%成本的增长。

    • 权威例句

  • Gimcrack shops offer cash-remittance services to distant lands.
    ECONOMIST: Catholics in Britain
  • The writer-director George Nolfi, by literalizing and supercharging what Dick sketched out, and adding gimcrack history and theology, has made a strenuously silly digital-action film, interrupted by a wheezing discourse about freedom and choice and other such profound matters.
    NEWYORKER: Control Yourself

词组短语

    短语

  • gimcrack ornaments 劣质的饰物
  • Skysail dactyl gimcrack golem 天帆平仄廉价泥人
  • Gimcrack on Newmarket Heath 纽马克特旷野的小点缀

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • attractive on the surface but badly made and of no real or permanent value

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • cheap shoddy
  • a cheap showy trifle or gadget