trumpery

常见例句

双语例句

• The thing he bought yesterday was trumpery.
  他昨天买的只是一件没有什么价值的东西。
• As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.
  照常，大部分的东西是华而不实的，还是他父亲手里就开始积藏了。
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• Chagrin and remorse followed, and it was not until after full confession to Marmee that Meg realized the trumpery value of fashionable rivalry and the real worth of simplicity and contentment.
  梅格感到既委屈又懊恼，一直到她把此事向妈咪和盘托出之后，她才认识到这种时髦竞赛的浅薄无聊和朴素知足的真正价值。

权威例句

• He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
  ECONOMIST: British history
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