Every October - or even earlier - millions of Americans are spending on costumes, decorating their homes and lawns with garish skeletons and spiders and doling out candy bars to little superheroes and witches.

每年10月——甚至更早——数百万美国人就开始购买服装，用俗丽的骷髅和蜘蛛装饰房子和草坪，向小超级英雄和女巫们分发糖果棒。

For all they knew the ladies of France might be shaving their heads and wearing coonskin caps, so Rhett's memory for furbelows was an excellent substitute for Godey's Lady's Book.

她们不见得，法国的太太们可能在剃头发和戴浣熊皮帽子了，于是他的关于那些俗丽衣服的记忆便成了《格迭斯妇女手册》的代用品。

There were women in the mob near Decatur Street, garishly dressed women whose bright finery and painted faces gave a discordant note of holiday.

迪凯特大街附近的群众中有些衣着很俗丽的妇女。她们花花绿绿的衣饰和涂脂抹粉的脸孔给人以很不协调的节假日感觉。

Though the sidewalks were jammed, the faces she saw were as unfamiliar as the signs overhead, new people, many rough-looking men and tawdrily dressed women.

人行上拥挤不堪，她所看到的面孔像头顶上的样，都是陌生的，都是些新人，许许多多容貌粗鲁的男人和穿着俗丽的女人。

" My son, don't say such dreadful things, " murmured Mrs. Vane, taking up a tawdry theatrical dress, with a sigh, and beginning to patch it.

“我的儿子，别说这种可怕的话，”韦恩太太叹了口气，拿起件俗丽的戏装，开始缝补，轻声说。

The temperature dropped, the sidewalks became even more congested, and the Christmas displays began to creep into the shopfronts, like a gaudy, glittering rash.

气温骤降， 人行变得更加拥挤，圣诞装饰开始悄然爬上商店橱窗， 宛如片俗丽闪耀的皮疹。

A big spread, a dance floor, layers of kitsch, He reasoned that in another decade he wouldn't be able to throw such a party.

丰盛的菜肴， 舞池，层层叠叠的俗丽装饰，他思忖着，再过十年，恐怕就无法举办这样的聚会了。 他的母亲、姑姑、叔叔或许已不在人世， 或已无法出席。

" They might, " said Arianne, " but peacocks are vain, proud creatures, strutting about in all those gaudy colors. Give me a swan serene in white or beautiful in black" .

" 它们是不错，" 亚莲恩，" 但空虚、自大、颜色俗丽、华而不实。我宁肯要只宁静的白天鹅或优雅的黑天鹅。"