meretricious

So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。

He was a son of god a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that and he must be about his father's business, the service of a vast, vulgar, and meretricious beauty.

他是上帝的儿子这个称号，如果有什么意义的话，就是字面的意思因此他必须为他的天父效命，献身于一种博大、庸俗、华而不实的美。

A wooden building painted to look like marble is meretricious.

一座漆得像大理石般的木制建筑物外表是美丽的.

...vulgar, meretricious and shabby souvenirs.

俗气花哨、质量低劣的纪念品

Her room was painted in meretricious technicolour.

她的房间刷着俗艳的颜色。

Advertisements convey an impression, however meretricious, of the importance of the goods being sold.

商业广告尽管华而不实，却能使人对正在销售的商品的重要性留有印象。

meretricious research

华而不实的研究

Everywhere there are meretricious actions and opportunism; everywhere there is an expectation of simple orders.

到处勃发着浮华和机遇，到处期待着朴素的秩序。

It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation& as all good things should do.

那是一条白金表链，式样简单朴素，只以货色来宣誓它的价值，不凭什么不可耐的装潢&一切好东西都应该是这样的。

He claims that a lot of journalism is meretricious and superficial.

他断言许多新闻报道华而不实而且肤浅。

it is a meretricious fandango of imported systems, which the elites themselves don't understand.

它只是外来体系华而不实、花里胡哨的闹剧，对此精英们自己并不了解。

There was no other like it in any of the stores, and she had turned all of them inside out. It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation--as all good things should do.

她找遍了各家商店，哪儿也没有这样的东西，一条朴素的白金表链，镂刻着花纹。正如一切优质东西那样，它只以货色论长短，不以装潢来炫耀。

He has authority to put to death lascivious children, still can traffic children it is for slave meretricious .

他有权处死淫荡的儿女，还可以将儿女贩卖为奴隶为娼妓。

Some states adopt the "meretricious relationships" and "domestic partnerships". Like the United States, the United Kingdom has gone through a phase of ultra-conservative, however, the reform pace of modern Britain is not as quick as the United States.

英国与美国一样经历了一个极度保守的阶段，然而英国现代的改革却没有美国的步伐大。