中英互译

gimcrack

英 /ˈdʒɪmkræk/美 /ˈdʒɪmkræk/

基本释义

The silver yo-yo that Jerry kept on his office desk was a gimcrack he had won as a carnival prize many years ago.
杰里放在他办公桌上的银质溜溜球是他在多年前赢得的狂欢节礼物，一个华而不实的小东西。
"ligeia", which poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack gothicism .
波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品，现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜，魔鬼附身，浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。
That's a 33% increase in the cost of producing one gimcrack in Greece after you've deducted all the benefits of any increase in the productivity of Greek workers.
也就是说希腊每制造一个小玩意，就有了这个刨除了希腊工人生产力提高所得的所有收益后的33%成本的增长。

adj.

华而不实的；廉价的

小玩意；华而不实之物

gimcrackery虚华不实之物或装饰；（文艺作品中）刻意造成的效果