sordid
sordid 英 [ˈsɔ:dɪd] 美 [ˈsɔrdɪd]
adj. 肮脏的；卑鄙的；利欲熏心的；色彩暗淡的
- Describe a person's actions as sordid if they are so immoral or unethical that they seem dirty. Think of the worst parts of a bad soap opera!
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- adj. 肮脏的；卑鄙的；利欲熏心的；色彩暗淡的
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1. The tale is a sordid one, but let’s at least begin in relatively pleasant surroundings, among the leather armchairs of the Travellers Club in London.
这是一段浸满铜臭的肮脏故事，但至少让我们从伦敦绅士俱乐部的皮革扶椅这一相对愉悦地环节开始。
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2. Human trafficking tends to get ignored because it is an indelicate, sordid topic, with troubled victims who don’t make great poster children for family values.
人口贩卖是个令人难堪而肮脏的话题，受害者在家中又往往是不受重视的孩子，因此这个话题经常遭到忽视。
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3. So goes life in China, where tales of official graft are so common that a newspaper wouldn't be complete without a rundown of the sordid details.
在中国就是如此，官员行贿是那么的普遍，以至于一份没有报道肮脏的行贿细节的报纸是不完整的。
- sordid (adj.) early 15c., "festering," from Latin sordidus "dirty, filthy, foul, vile, mean, base," from sordere "be dirty, be shabby," related to sordes "dirt, filth," from PIE *swrd-e-, from root *swordo- "black, dirty" (source also of Old English sweart "black"). Sense of "foul, low, mean" first recorded 1610s. Related: Sordidly; sordidness.
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