" I am your verdict." In office, his talent for zingers and impish charm soon seemed meretricious.

“我是你的裁决。”在办公室里，他的活力和顽皮的魅力很快就显得很庸俗。

It was by concealing such links in the chain that Watson was enabled to produce his meretricious finales.

正是通过隐藏链条中的这些环节， 沃森才得以制作出他那华而不实的结局。

He was a son of God—a phrase which, if it means anything, means just that—and he must be about His Father's Business, the service of a vast, vulgar and meretricious beauty.

他是上帝的儿子——这个称号，如果有什么意义的话，就是字面的意思——因此他必须为他的天父效命，献身于一种博大、庸俗、华而不实的美。

If there is anything more degrading, immoral, unnatural, than another in my life, it is this meretricious contract with Arabella which has been called doing the right thing!

如果说我生命中还有比其他任何事情更可耻、更不道德、更不自然的事情， 那就是与阿拉贝拉签订的这份华而不实的合同， 这被称为做正确的事！

Would not this simple elegance of sincerity be a chaste homage paid to domestic affections, far surpassing the meretricious compliments that shine with false lustre in the heartless intercourse of fashionable life?

这种朴素的真挚优雅，岂不是对家庭亲情的纯洁礼敬，远远胜过时尚生活无情交际中闪耀着虚假光彩的华而不实的恭维吗？