Her gown was dowdy and expensive.

麦克安德鲁上校太太不是时兴样式，价钱却很昂贵。

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。

They always wear the same dowdy clothes.

他们总是穿着同样邋遢。

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

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，得多美丽呀！感谢上帝，总算没穿着破衫或者丧到这里来！我对那些穿得又丑又旧和永远带着黑纱女人腻烦透了。

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； 她穿那套灰色西装虽然毫无疑问“不错” ，但却得寒酸。

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.

他有一个邋遢妻子和一个邋遢头脑，他大部分时间都在城里度过，利用军队最近崇高社会地位。

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， 戴着一顶非常漂亮帽子， 看起来既廉价又邋遢。

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.

他自己邻居是范德勒夫人，他姨妈最年长朋友之一，女人中完美圣人，但太过邋遢，让人想起一本装订糟糕赞美诗集。

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这一点时，她要么变得邋遢得可怕，要么戴上其他女人丈夫必须付钱买非常漂亮帽子。