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人腻烦透了。

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疑。

" 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。”

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。

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。

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.

他的邻座是范德勒太太，他姑妈的一位老朋友，堪称性中的完人，只可惜老气横秋，让人想起一本装帧拙劣的赞美诗集。

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和一个邋遢的头脑，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。

Was it predicted that you one day would be interviewed by an unassuming man in a rather dowdy studio in a building called the ABC?

你有没有预料到，有朝一日会被一位不起眼的男士采访，而那位男士在一座名叫ABC的建筑里一间略显陈旧的录音室中进行访谈？

Dowdy soap operas The dramas play out over hundreds of episodes stretch broadcast standards on sex and violence mean they rarely sizzle.

过时的肥皂剧 这些戏剧跨越数百集，对性与暴力的描写突破了广播标准，但它们很少能让人感到刺激。

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到。

These are what mainly sets it apart from its western competitors, Even Amazon which looks dowdy by comparison.

这些主要是它与西方竞争对手不同的地方，甚至相比之下显得土气的亚马逊。

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.

当她第一次看到他们时，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，无论他们在教区大厅里呆得多么短暂。

And it's not comfort like dowdy, you know, there's that level of comfort, but- - Functional comfort.

- 这种舒适不是那种土气的舒适， 你知道，有那种层次的舒适， 但这是功能性的舒适。

Would it be dowdy or snazzy?

会是过时的还是时髦的？

Because that would be in style, stylish, versus dowdy, which means not, old-fashioned.

因为那会是时髦的，而不是过时的老样子。

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.

当一个人发现丈夫的不忠，她要么变得邋遢不堪，要么就戴上精漂亮的帽子，而买单的却是另一个人的丈夫。

I'm not saying it can't be used for men, but if it's a young woman and she's wearing like a dress that doesn't fit her and it's baggy and it's old-fashioned, let's say she looks rather dowdy.

我不是说不能用于男士，但如果是一位年轻性，她穿着一件不合身的宽松且过时的裙子，可以说她看起来相当过时。

That's part of it is, is you're, you're kind of playing Doubt not dowdy, but you're you're glammed down.

这部分因是，你在剧中扮演的角色不是邋遢，而是低调的怀疑。