trumpery

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The thing he bought yesterday was trumpery.
他昨天買(mǎi)的衹是一件沒(méi)有什麼價(jià)值的東西。
As usual, a great proportion was trumpery which had begun to accumulate in his father's day.
照常，大部分的東西是華而不實(shí)的，還是他父親手裡就開(kāi)始積藏了。
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Chagrin and remorse followed, and it was not until after full confession to Marmee that Meg realized the trumpery value of fashionable rivalry and the real worth of simplicity and contentment.
梅格感到既委屈又懊惱，一直到她把此事曏媽咪和磐托出之後，她才認(rèn)識(shí)到這種時(shí)髦競(jìng)賽的淺薄無(wú)聊和樸素知足的真正價(jià)值。

He is particularly withering in his scorn for what he sees as the mystifications of the English parliamentary tradition (allegedly nurtured since the Middle Ages), the trumpery of modern British monarchy, the obscurities of English common law and the mediocrity of the current batch of British politicians.
ECONOMIST: British history