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

• Soon we were assailed By the garish lights of New York.
  不久我们驶入纽约红红绿绿的灯光中。
• 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）
• They must look queer in their garish frames on the walls of the peasant house.
  它们镶着很讲究的金框子，挂在一家村舍的墙上是多么不伦不类呀。
• 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）
• Only now the sit-ups were an agonizing part of physical therapy, and the garish lights of the arena were turned off.
  不同的是，仰卧起坐现在只是理疗中令人疼痛难忍的一部分，而当初竞技场上炫目的灯光早已消失不见。
• 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。
• You can still traverse vast sections of Beijing without noticing that it is the Christmas season, but many higher-end locales have decorations, most of them garish and overblown.
  在北京很多地方你仍感受不到圣诞气息，不过许多比较高级的场所都已扮上了“圣诞妆”，虽然大多有些艳俗。
• 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。
• 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away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.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。
• 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。