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

• This colour is bright but not garish.
  这颜色艳而不俗。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• This carpet has an overelaborate and garish pattern.
  这张地毯花纹繁缛，色彩也过于艳丽。
• 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）
• In general avoid dressing in loud, garish clothes that would prove distracting to the interviewer.
  总的说来就是不要穿颜色过于俗艳的衣服，那会分散面试官的注意力。
• 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”。
• 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。