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

• The garish glow of neon signs.
  霓虹灯招牌的眩目光亮。
• 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。
• Go on to explore its home in lush coral reefs and you'll soon hit sensory overload, assaulted by colors and patterns that range from sublime to garish.
  继续走进它所栖息的繁茂的珊瑚礁，你会马上觉得感官超出负荷：由庄重到花俏的各式各样色彩与图案从四面围攻而来。
• 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）
• All around you there seemed to be something glaring, garish, rattling.
  在你周围好像有些东西又扎眼，又晃眼，又刺耳。
• 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。
• But the problems go beyond the obvious badly-fitting or garish outfit.
  但问题不仅仅停留在着装明显不合身或过于前卫上。
• 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”。
• 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away in someone else's shoe box of adolescent artifacts, there might be a picture of you in garish clothes and with an outdated 'do, your arm around a high school squeeze.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。
• The first 30 minutes of the film are more like a musical, as we are shown highly decorated sets with garish lighting and scantily clad women dancing sexily.
  电影的前30分钟更像是一部音乐剧，在花哨炫目的灯光下、金碧辉煌的舞台上，一群衣着暴露的舞女跳着性感的舞蹈。