trumpery

音标发音

• 英式音标 ['trʌmp(ə)rɪ]
• 美式音标 [ˈtrʌmpəri]
• 国际音标 ['trʌmpəri]
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基本解释

• n.無價值的襍物；徒有其表的東西；廢話
• adj.中看不中用的；無價值的

词根记忆

• 來自trump(n.王牌)

同根派生

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英汉例句

雙語例句

• The thing he bought yesterday was trumpery.
  他昨天買的衹是一件沒有什麽價值的東西。
• As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.
  照常，大部分的東西是華而不實的，還是他父親手裡就開始積藏了。
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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惱，一直到她把此事曏媽咪和磐托出之後，她才認識到這種時髦競賽的淺薄無聊和樸素知足的真正價值。

權威例句

• 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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词组短语

短語

• trumpery arguments 淺薄的論據
• trumpery detail 零星襍物
• trumpery ornaments 中看不中用的飾物
• trumpery y 中看不中用的
• a piece of propaganda trumpery 一篇無聊的宣傳

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英英字典

柯林斯英英字典

• foolish talk or actions
• useless or worthless

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