Her gown was dowdy and expensive.

麦克安德鲁上校的衣服不是时兴的样式，价钱却很昂贵。

Dowdy is now trying to identify the chemical compounds responsible for making some tiger moths taste bad.

现在正试图找出导致某些虎蛾变得难吃的化合物。

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

如果我觉得自己有点缺乏魅力，躺在日光浴床上几个小时也不能除自我怀疑。

You should dress dowdy like that again tomorrow...

你明天穿这样邋遢就对了。

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

电视上看起来好俗气 向后梳好。

I meant like flirty marilyn, not long, dowdy poodle skirt.

我意思是像轻浮的玛丽莲一样，不懒卷卷的裙边。

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

靠那条过时的陈旧蓝裙子不可能做到。

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·普拉萨德表示，这样做是否利大于弊，取决于世界上最不时髦的机构——央行——能否在不失控的情况下拥抱变化。

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纱的女人腻烦透了。