frumpy

英 [ˈfrʌmpi]

美 [ˈfrʌmpi]

adj.  (女子或其衣着)古板的，土气的

BNC.39399 / COCA.28984

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (女子或其衣着)过时的，古板的,土气的
  If you describe a woman or her clothes asfrumpy, you mean that her clothes are dull and not fashionable.
  1. I looked so frumpy next to these women.
     坐在这些女人旁边我显得极其落伍。
  2. ...bulky, frumpy clothes.
     肥大土气的衣服

英英释义

adj

• primly out of date
  1. nothing so frumpish as last year's gambling game
  Synonym:dowdyfrumpish

双语例句

• Her demeanour provides no clues to her extraordinary life; her clothes are neat, albeit a little frumpy, her hair soberly cut; her face sports a smudge of purple eye-shadow, but is gently wrinkled.
  她的一举一动毫不彰显她不平凡的人生经历；整洁的衣服，虽然有点土里土气，一头干练的短发；她的脸上涂抹着紫色眼影，但仍有轻微的皱纹。
• Once trading wealth is accumulated it can, of course, be taxed by the ruling classes and used to pay for something important rather than cheap baubles for some merchant's frumpy wife
  贸易财富积累到一定程度，统治阶层即可就此徵税，将税金转而用于其他重要用途，而不是令金钱白白浪费于商人们肥硕庸俗妻子的脂粉首饰
• The frumpy church volunteer's first album," I Dreamed a Dream," was the best-selling debut in British chart history and also topped the US charts.
  这位衣着朴素的教堂志愿者还发布了首张专辑《我曾有梦》，并成为英国唱片榜史上最热销的首张专辑，此外还成为美国唱片榜的销量冠军。
• Susan Boyle is a frumpy, eccentric church volunteer who, at48, claims she's never been kissed and lives alone with her cat Pebbles.
  苏珊大妈是一个怪癖的，未见过世面的教堂义工，截止至48岁还未谈过恋爱，甚至没被人亲吻过。
• The photographer arrives and I suggest the picture is taken outside as the hotel is too frumpy. "Frumpy?"
  摄影师来了，我建议到外面拍照，因为这个酒店太见不得人了。“见不得人？”
• It represents a complete design departure from the frumpy retro look with which Jaguar has saddled its often well-engineered saloons for the last decade.
  它代表着与捷豹过去十年设计精密的过时复古外形设计的彻底告别。
• My new look was boring, frumpy and did the trick perfectly.
  我的新打扮显得乏味、古板，效果却十分理想。
• I looked so frumpy next to these women.
  坐在这些女人旁边我显得极其落伍。