twee

[US]/twiː/
[UK]/twiː/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. 矯飾的,過分俗麗的;故作多情的

Example Sentences

a solitary ancient in a tweed jacket.

一個穿花呢上衣的孤寂老人。

a hairy tweed coat and skirt.

毛糙的粗花呢外套和裙子。

a grey herringbone tweed jacket.

灰色人字紋粗花呢夾克。

although the film's a bit twee, it's watchable.

儘管這部電影有些過分感傷,但還可看。

He wore a tweed sports jacket.

他穿了一件粗花呢運動夾克。

She has a rather twee manner that I find irritating.

她嬌裏嬌氣, 我覺得很討厭。

Fantasy yarns mixed to flat ones, never very thick, with different aspect: boucle, jaspe, vrille, hairy, felted, tweed, but never exaggerated.

較特殊的紗線,本主題中並無粗紗,紗線外觀有不同的變化:小圈圈、異色合股、螺旋狀鈕結、多毛、縮絨等,但都不會有太誇張的表現。

Real-world Examples

As twee as they are numerous, they truss reactionary class politics in sentimental plots to flog to suggestible foreigners.

雖然這些古裝劇大多矯揉造作,他們向易受欺騙的外國人宣傳了英國的階級政治。

Source: Selected English short passages

I look at them with a distant, analytical eye, noting how small everything looks, how tired, how twee.

我用一種遙遠的、分析的眼光看着他們, 注意到一切看起來多麼渺小,多麼疲倦,多麼花哨。

Source: After You (Me Before You #2)

Your columnist, who long deemed gardening a twee waste of time, advances this argument with a convert's zeal.

本專欄作者長期以來一直認爲做園藝活是一種矯情的浪費時間的行爲,他以一種皈依者的熱忱提出了這一論點。

Source: The Economist (Summary)

But life is, as twee as it is, as quant as it is a sentiment, life is the great art, isn't it?

但是,生活既是一種感情,也是一種感情,生活是一門偉大的藝術,不是嗎?

Source: Actor Dialogue

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