1.Her gown was dowdy and expensive.

麦克安德鲁上校太太衣服不是时兴样式，价钱却很昂贵。

2.If I feel like I'm getting a little dowdy, hours on a tanning bed can't eradicate self-doubt.

如果我觉得自有缺乏魅力，躺在日光浴床上几个小时也不能消除自我怀疑。

3.They always wear the same dowdy clothes.

他们总是穿着同样邋遢衣服。机翻

4.It looked so dowdy on TV, pulled back like that.

电视上看起来好俗气 向后梳好。

5.I can't do that in some dowdy old blue dress.

靠那条过时陈旧蓝裙子不可能做到。

6.Whether it does more good than harm, says Eswar Prasad, depends on the world's dowdiest institutions - central banks - embracing change without losing control.

埃斯瓦尔·普萨德表示，这样做是否利大于弊，取决于世界上最不时髦机构——央行——能否在不失控情况下拥抱变化。

7.Scarlett, how pretty you look! Thank God, you aren't in rags or mourning! I get so sick of women in dowdy old clothes and perpetual crepe.

思嘉，你显得多美丽呀！感谢上帝，你总算没穿着破衣衫或者丧服到这里来！我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑人腻烦透了。

8.They were neat, certainly, but they had an unused look; and the gray suit she was wearing, although undoubtedly " good, " was dowdy.

当然，它们很整洁， 但看起来像是未使用过； 她穿那套灰色西装虽然毫无疑问“不错” ，但却显得寒酸。机翻

9.He had a dowdy wife and a dowdy mind, and spent much of his time in town taking advantage of the army's lately exalted social position.

他有一个邋遢妻子和一个邋遢头脑，他大部分时间都在城里度过，利用军队最近崇高社会地位。机翻

10.Beside Isabel, in black silk, with a string of cultured pearls round her neck and in a very smart hat, she looked cheap and dowdy.

在伊莎贝尔旁边， 她穿着黑色丝绸， 脖子上挂着一串养殖珍珠， 戴着一顶非常漂亮帽子， 看起来既廉价又邋遢。机翻

11.His own neighbour was Mrs. Vandeleur, one of his aunt's oldest friends, a perfect saint amongst women, but so dreadfully dowdy that she reminded one of a badly bound hymn-book.

他自邻居是范德勒夫人，他姨妈最年长朋友之一，人中完美圣人，但太过邋遢，让人想起一本装订糟糕赞美诗集。机翻

12.And when a woman finds that out about her husband, she either becomes dreadfully dowdy, or wears very smart bonnets that some other woman's husband has to pay for.

当一个人发现她丈夫这一时，她要么变得邋遢得可怕，要么戴上其他人丈夫必须付钱买非常漂亮帽子。机翻