garish

英 [ˈɡeərɪʃ]

美 [ˈɡerɪʃ]

adj.  俗艳的; 花哨的; 炫目的

GRE

Collins.1 / BNC.18795 / COCA.17017

牛津词典

adj.

• 俗艳的；花哨的；炫目的
  very brightly coloured in an unpleasant way
  1. garish clothes/colours
     花里胡哨的衣服；过于艳丽的色彩

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 花哨的；炫目的；俗艳的
  You describe something asgarishwhen you dislike it because it is very bright in an unattractive, showy way.
  1. They climbed the garish purple-carpeted stairs.
     他们登上铺着俗艳的紫色地毯的楼梯。
  2. ...the restaurant's garish, illuminated signs.
     餐馆花哨的烫金招牌

英英释义

adj

• tastelessly showy
  1. a flash car
  2. a flashy ring
  3. garish colors
  4. a gaudy costume
  5. loud sport shirts
  6. a meretricious yet stylish book
  7. tawdry ornaments
  Synonym:brassycheapflashflashygaudygimcrackloudmeretricioustackytattytawdrytrashy

双语例句

• For several years, his group toured the country, delighting audiences in city after city with their garish suits, funny hair, and contagiously happy grins.
  在很多年之中，他一直带着他的团队漫游在国内各地，从一个城市到另一个城市，用他们俗丽的制服，滑稽的发型和那极具感召力的笑容取悦着各地观众。
• Their torches lit the macabre proceedings in a pallid light that danced over their garish rune-covered robes.
  他们穿的长袍上绘着繁复而华丽的符文，折射着火炬那苍白的光线。
• Cramped, cluttered with tables and hung with an overly garish chandelier, like a swooping silver porcupine, the walls are wooden slats that make it hard to focus.
  大堂略显狭窄，桌子随处可见，屋顶挂着一顶过于耀眼的吊灯，就像一头要飞奔下来的银色箭猪，墙壁是木板条制作而成，这让它难以找到焦点所在。
• They mimic the styles of Zara or mango, with a few garish flourishes popular in the local market, but at a substantially lower price.
  它们模仿zara或mango的款式，再添加一些在本土市场受欢迎的艳俗配饰，但价格要低很多。
• At the same time, archaeologists were undermining traditional "classical values" by discovering that the ancient temples of the Greeks were not the austere edifices people had believed them to be, but had been garish and multicoloured in their heyday.
  同时，考古学家们发现，希腊的古寺庙，其建筑并不象人们原以为的那样严肃朴素。而在其鼎盛时期却是十分华丽俗气的。这就动摇了传统的“古典派的价值观”。
• It's some freakish garish beauty pageant that has nothing, frankly to do with health and welfare.
  它是某种奇特扎眼的选美，坦率地说与健康和福利毫无关系。
• Hide me from Day's garish eye ( John Milton)
  把我藏起来，离开白天耀眼的太阳（约翰米尔顿）
• But how can we expect to enjoy the scenery when the scenery consists entirely of garish billboards?
  但是当这里的风景完全充斥着花里胡哨的广告牌时，我们还怎么能期望享受什么风景？（设问）
• All your life you think you have to hold back your craziness, but when you're sick you can let it go in all its garish colors.
  你一辈子都认为应该遏制住你的狂热想法，但是当你病了，你不妨让它绽放出耀眼的光彩。
• Tucked away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.
  （文中谈到奥巴马）藏在别人鞋盒子里的青少年读物中，可能夹有一张你穿着鲜艳的衣服和过时的燕尾服，拥着一个高中美女的照片。