词汇 | arty-farty |
释义 | arty-farty adjective UKvery informaldisapprovinguk /ˌɑː.tiˈfɑː.ti/ us /ˌɑːr.t̬iˈfɑːr.t̬i/(USartsy-fartsy, uk /ˌɑːt.siˈfɑːt.si/ us /ˌɑːrt.siˈfɑːrt.si/) trying too hard to make other people admire your artistic knowledge or ability: 附庸风雅的;装作爱好艺术的 Phil and his arty-farty friends菲尔和他那帮附庸风雅的朋友 Affected & insincere affectation affected affectedly archly artificial forced forcedly fustian glib glibly piously ponce ponce about/around posey preciously sugary super-smooth superslick talk the talk ... walk the walkidiom theatricality Examples of arty-fartyarty-farty The definition of the arty-farty world is quite simple. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This has also led to reviews appreciating that songs never really let up or devolve into any sort of arty-farty, jagged song structure. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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