a dowdy woman

不整洁的女人.

a dowdy gray outfit.

过时的灰色装束

She was in a dowdy blue frock

她穿了件不大洁净的蓝上衣。

She made the other women look dowdy and careless

她使其他人相形见绌，使她们显得太懒散。

a dowdy bonnet

难看的帽子.

Her hard-working sister shows little affection; she and her husband live in a dowdy apartment and lead a dull life, beset by continual financial anxieties

勤劳的姐姐对她很冷淡，他们夫妇的住房寒伧，生活拮据，终日为钱发愁。

The dowdy fellow is quite unlike the general run of my wife’s guests

这个邋里邋遢的家伙完全不象我妻子的客人那一流人。

The problem was that what looked like a single entity was in fact a loose alliance of local co-ops, each with its own management. Fleet-footed rivals were better able to reap scale economies from centralised buying and marketing. They could raise capital quickly to build bigger stores. And a new breed of grocer, exemplified by Tesco’s Jack Cohen, understood that retailing is part showbiz. He hired well-known comedians to open his stores.|| The Co-op movement was slow-witted and dowdy by comparison. “It didn’t co-operate and it rarely moved,” recalls Mr Marks.||

||1:联营模式的问题是它看上去是一个统一的实体的企业，实际上只是一些本地合作社之间松散的联盟——各自进行自己的管理。||2:而其飞毛腿般的对手却可以通过集中购买和销售来收获规模经济带来的利益。||3:他们可以快速集资来建造更大的商场。||4:由Tesco 的Jack Cohen示范的一种新型零售店则悟出零售业其实是一个娱乐性行业。||5:他雇佣著名的喜剧演员来开店。||6:两相对比使合作社运动看上去反应迟钝、跟不上时代。||7:“以前联营的商场之间没有合作，并且很少变动” Marks回忆道。||

So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy ?

那么，美女就应该附上一张看起来邋遢的照片在简历上吗？

||There is, though, a problem with this story. Peahens, though not as showy as cocks, are by no means dowdy .|| Their heads have fetching crests, and their necks are a beautiful, iridescent blue. Such flummery is costly to grow and likely to attract predators. If you do not have to strut your stuff to get a mate, why do you need it?

||然而，这个故事有一个疑问。雌孔雀虽不如雄性那样艳丽，但也绝不俗气。它们头上有迷人的羽冠，以及光泽艳丽的蓝色脖子。||这种装饰物会威胁生存，可能招致天敌。如果你不是为了求偶炫耀，那你为什么需要它？

So should attractive women simply attach photos that make them look dowdy ?

所以漂亮女士就应该在简历里贴上自己的邋遢照片吗？

Probably the opposite: revive a sense of style at a tech firm that has lately looked a bit dowdy .

也许相反，在一家科技公司恢复一种风格有点过时。

“I’m not saying that we looked dowdy , ” Mary says. “She said, ’You don’t have to be dirty to be poor. ’ I always remember that. ”

“我是说，我们看上去并不邋遢，”玛丽说道，“妈妈说过，‘虽然穷困，也须整洁。’我对此念念不忘。”

Mark Dowdy is another new addition to the Performance team, but he joined Iris in 1997 from Lotus.

MarkDowdy是性能团队的新成员，但他于1997年从Lotus加入Iris。

For the female mole attending a black-tie affair, surveillance equipment didn’t have to be dowdy .

对于出席隆重聚会的女特工来说，监控器具也不能显得太过寒酸。

Dowdy on the outside, its entrance is a riotous stairway to arts and crafts heaven.

尽管这家博物馆的外表平淡无奇，但其入口却是一条通往艺术与工艺殿堂的台阶。

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Say goodbye to the “black brick” laptop. The era of the plain, dowdy PC is officially over.

路透旧金山9月21日电---告别黑砖式的笔记本电脑吧，普通老式的个人电脑时代已经正式告终了。

Fairmont wants “a repositioning, not a restoration, ” he says, adding “they don’t want a dowdy museum piece. ”

他还说：“他们不想要一个过时的博物馆。”

Record companies’ publishing departments, which once seemed rather dowdy next to sexy, talent-spotting A&R, have become vital cash machines.

这就使得在和星探部门相比之下一度被认为是乏味老套的唱片公司的发行部门变成了至关重要的摇钱树。

With long grey hair, wrinkles and dowdy clothes, the beautiful actress is barely recognisable.

这一头白发，一脸皱纹，一身邋遢的衣服，美艳性感的大明星完全判若两人。

China’s stock market mania has reached the dowdy , two-room offices of the Tiancheng pawnshop in central Shanghai.

中国股市的狂热，已经波及上海市中心天成典当行。

rowdy-dowdy

a.1. 喧嚷的;吵闹的