homely GRE

a homely child.

丑孩子

homely furniture.

粗朴家具

homely truths.

朴素真理

homely skills.

日常技巧

homely pleasures.

单纯快乐。

a modern hotel with a homely atmosphere.

一个充满家氛围现代宾馆。

quite a homely sort of body

朴实人

Her mother is a homely woman.

她母亲是个朴实妇女。

because of my country accent, people identified me with a homely farmer's wife.

由于我乡下口音，人们认为我是一个平常农妇。

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

时代变了, 因此, 用朴实隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”。

She quite forgot Hurstwood's presence at times, and looked away to homely farmhouses and cosey cottages in villages with wondering eyes.

她有时连赫斯渥存在都忘了，只顾用惊奇目光看着远处那些乡村中朴农舍和舒适小屋。

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.

国王觉得这样寻常说辞，是敷衍。于是乎他流放了小女儿，并将国土分给了她两个姐姐。谁料她们很快把老国王赶出了他自己土地。收藏指正

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.

但巨石表面见证了平凡劳动：曾是三石塔组成部分最高那块巨石有一个凸榫——是从木材加工借鉴而来半个榫臼接头。