homeliness

Fine clothes could not conceal the girl’s homeliness.

华丽的衣服并不能盖这个女孩的容貌。

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity lose much , by gaudy attire.

华丽的衣着增添不了多少美丽，也颇能饰丑陋与畸型。

Her mother is a homely woman.

她母亲是个朴实的妇女。

Beauty gains little, and homeliness and deformity ose much by gaudy attire. —— Zimmermann Willhelm, German diplomat

华丽的衣着不能给人增添多少姿色，单颇能饰丑陋与畸形。——齐默尔曼，德国外交家

Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.

时代变了, 因此, 用朴实的隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”。

But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking.

曾是三石塔组成部分最高的那块巨石有一个凸榫——是从木材加工借鉴而来的半个榫臼接头。

The king, insulted by this homely simile, banishes the youngest daughter and divides his kingdom between the older two, who promptly kick him out on his royal heinie.

国王觉得这的说辞，简直就是敷衍。于是乎他流放了小女儿，并将国土分给了她的两个姐姐。谁料她们很快就就把老国王赶出了他自己土地。收藏指正