frills [
frils]
n. 臭架子, 虚饰
- No frills.
无添加物。 - I just want an ordinary car without the frills.
我只要一辆没有多余装饰的普通汽车。 - This is a house with no frills.
这是栋没有过分装饰的房子。
frills \frills\ n.
Ornamental objects of no great value.
Syn: falderal, folderol, gimcrackery, gimcracks, nonsense,
trumpery.
[WordNet 1.5]
- Among the few frills were puppet shows for the kids, donated stuffed animals, chalkboards, jigsaw puzzles, playing cards and an occasional television.
- Having previously developed 40 to 50 rehabilitation hospitals, the company has developed an "efficient, basic plan for building and design with no frills," he says.
- It has offered: a 24 per cent cut with 10 per cent 'swings' in each sector; a 21 per cent cut with 4 per cent swings; or a straight, no frills 18 per cent cut.
- Players with all of the frills offer such features as two-sided, two-disc playback and sing-along capabilities.
- But Casa de Terena is a useful place to lay your head if you have dined too well at Miga's to want to drive on. The six rooms come with no frills but all the basics.
- Publishers hope the frills grab media-conscious students and help them compete for shrinking school budget funds.
- Selective Surgery In corporate cutbacks, most executives Perform quite a balancing act By trimming work-force fat and frills, While leaving their own perks intact.
- In January, Yugo America mounted an aggressive campaign including a $48 million advertising budget and the introduction of the Yugo GVX, with a stronger engine and suspension and more frills.
- Most companies involved in such leveraged buyouts strive to increase their profitability by cutting costs, closing factories and getting rid of frills such as corporate jets.
- The airline specialises in short-haul, point-to-point services with frequent flights, no frills and fast turnrounds, and its workers are hard-working, flexible and enthusiastic.
- Clive Exton's stage version maintains the suspense just as long; anyone who guesses at the interval will almost certainly be wrong. Guessing is what you are intended to do. Murder is Easy is an old-fashioned thriller without psychological frills.
- But the absence of frills doesn't seem to bother Ohioans Frank and Paulette Tornes, who trek down to the valley every winter, usually lighting out the first time a cold snap fogs the windows of their travel trailer.
- Extravagant, sporty cars with powerful engines and fancy technical frills are headline items at the 1989 Geneva Motor Show, reflecting the auto industry's buoyant confidence.
- Should the sun shine and you need more of a parasol than an umbrella, Chantal Thomass offers one that is very My Fair Lady in white with lots of frills (Pounds 75).
- He said scenarios for accomplishing the cleanup often contain expensive, unneeded frills.