Long island has developed its own tawdry suburban version of the crime passional , in which murder supplants divorce as a solution to the eternal triangle 长岛对由情欲引起的犯罪已形成了本地独有的、表面壮烈实则鄙俗的处理手法，用谋杀代替离婚来解决争风吃醋方面的仇怨这一行径便是其中一例。
So long as your tale does not turn into some tawdry bundle of lies existing solely to titillate the common reader , perhaps your relation of < charname > ' s tale will have some merit , volo 只要你记载的事迹不要变成纯粹为了娱乐大众写的一箩筐卑贱谎言，也许你所写的< charname >传会有些优点，瓦罗。
Bourbon street , the best known thoroughfare , is a tawdry assemblage of strip clubs , bars and souvenir shops ; even so , some excellent musicians perform there nightly , and it is also the location of some fine restaurants 现在的广场上，有画家在给游客画像，音乐家在演奏，还有魔术师和杂耍艺人在表演，杰克森广场常作为新奥尔良的
It seemed so tawdry what he had offered her - mere money - compared with what she offered him . he offered her an extraneous thing with which he could part without a pang , while she offered him herself , along with disgrace and shame , and sin , and all her hopes of heaven 比起她向他奉献的东西，他的奉献好像太粗俗不过是金钱罢了，那本是可以随便放弃而不关痛痒的身外之物，而她向他奉献的却是她自己，随之而来便是耻辱难堪。
He had time to note the light , fluffy something that hid her queenly head , the tasteful lines of her wrapped figure , the gracefulness of her carriage and of the hand that caught up her skirts ; and then she was gone and he was left staring at the two girls of the cannery , at their tawdry attempts at prettiness of dress , their tragic efforts to be clean and trim , the cheap cloth , the cheap ribbons , and the cheap rings on the fingers 他注意到她那王家气派的头上罩了个轻飘飘的东西注意到她盛装的身躯那品味高雅的线条她那曼婉美妙的神态和提着长据的纤手。她很快便走掉了，留下地望着两个罐头厂的姑娘：两人刻意打扮，却显得花里胡哨她们为了打扮得干净漂亮所作的努力令人难过。廉价的衣料廉价的丝带，手指上还套着廉价的戒指。
