homely
homely 英 [ˈhəʊmli] 美 [ˈhoʊmli]
adj. 家庭的；平凡的；不好看的
- Homely describes someone who's plain or unattractive, like your homely Aunt Agnes or her squish-faced bulldog.
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- adj. 家庭的；平凡的；不好看的
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1. I like that restaurant because it has a homely feel.
我喜欢那家餐馆，因为那有家的感觉。
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2. Members such as photographer Carl Warner stages pictures that at first look like homely painted landscapes – until you realise the trees are made of broccoli, the houses of ham.
成员们，比如摄影师卡尔·华纳分阶段上演绘画作品，乍看起来就像家庭绘画场景——直至你意识到，树是用西兰花做的，房子是用火腿做的。
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3. Squat, homely, dwarfed by the stately oaks and poplars nearby and unnoticed by the tourists passing in horse-drawn carriages, it's a tree that only birds and nut-hungry squirrels could love.
它矮小平凡，旁边高大笔直的橡树和杨树让它相形见绌；坐着马车从它身边经过的游客都不会瞅它一眼，可能只有鸟儿和想吃松子的松鼠会喜欢它。
- homely (adj.) late 14c., "of or belonging to home or household, domestic," from Middle English hom "home" (see home (n.)) + -ly (1). Sense of "plain, unadorned, simple" (as domestic scenes often were) is late 14c., and extension to "having a plain appearance, without particular beauty of features, crude" took place c. 1400, but survived chiefly in U.S., especially in New England, where it was the usual term for "physically unattractive;" ugly meaning typically "ill-tempered." In the old sense of "domestic, of or pertaining to domestic life," homish (1560s) and homelike (1789) have been used.
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