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消除自我怀。

Her gown was dowdy and expensive.

麦克安德鲁上校太太的衣服不是时兴的样式，价钱却很昂贵。

They always wear the same dowdy clothes.

他们总是穿着同样邋遢的衣服。

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

电视上看起来好俗气 向后梳好。

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。

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这里来！我对那些穿得又丑又旧永远带着黑纱的女人腻烦透了。

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。

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的； 她穿的那套灰色西装虽然问“不错” ，但却显得寒酸。

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， 戴着一顶非常漂的帽子， 看起来既廉价又邋遢。

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.

他有一个邋遢的妻子一个邋遢的头脑，他大部分时间都在城里度过，利用军队最近崇高的社会地位。

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.

当一个女人发现她丈夫的这一点时，她要么变得邋遢得可怕，要么戴上其他女人的丈夫必须付钱买的非常漂的帽子。

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.

他自己的邻居是范德勒夫人，他姨妈最年长的朋友之一，女人中的完美圣人，但太过邋遢，让人想起一本装订糟糕的赞美诗集。

" She's proud, but I don't believe she'd mind, for that dowdy tarlaton is all she has got. She may tear it tonight, and that will be a good excuse for offering a decent one."

“她很自尊，但我想也不会在乎，因为她所有的只是那件邋遢的塔拉丹。她或许今晚就会把它穿破，那就可以作为我们提供给她一件像样衣裳的好借口了。”

When she saw them first she was afraid that she herself would look dowdy beside them; she felt uncomfortable at spending the rest of the evening, no matter how short their stay in the parish hall, in their company.

当她第一次看他们时，她担心自己在他们旁边会显得邋遢。她觉得很不舒服，因为晚上剩下的时间都是在他们身边度过的，论他们在教区大厅里呆得多么短暂。