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

• 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。
• 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。
• The garish glow of neon signs.
  霓虹灯招牌的眩目光亮。
• They mimic the styles of Zara or mango, with a few garish flourishes popular in the local market, but at a substantially lower price.
  它们模仿zara或mango的款式，再添加一些在本土市场受欢迎的艳俗配饰，但价格要低很多。
• 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”。
• 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。
• 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 climbed the garish purple-carpeted stairs.
  他们登上铺着俗艳的紫色地毯的楼梯。
• 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。
• 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。