kitsch

来自德语kitsch,花里胡哨，垃圾，来自kitschen,涂抹，涂鸦。引申词义庸俗的艺术作品，含有比较强烈的蔑视。

kitsch (n.)

1926, from German kitsch, literally "gaudy, trash," from dialectal kitschen "to smear."

What we English people call ugliness in German art is simply the furious reaction against what Germans call süsses Kitsch, the art of the picture postcard, and of what corresponds to the royalty ballad. It has for years been their constant reproach against us that England is the great country of Kitsch. Many years ago a German who loved England only too well said to me, 'I like your English word plain; it is a word for which we have no equivalent in German, because all German women are plain.' He might well have balanced it by saying that English has no equivalent for the word Kitsch. [Edward J. Dent, "The Music of Arnold Schönberg," "The Living Age," July 9, 1921]

1. Blue and green eyeshadow has long been considered kitsch.

蓝色和绿色的眼影一直被认为是俗气的。

2. Collectors of Fifties kitsch should pop over to Brussels for the flea market.

50年代庸俗艺术作品的收藏者应该到布鲁塞尔的跳蚤市场去看看。

3. This kitsch sells like mad in the big cities.

这本小说在大城市里畅销.

4. How will a developer endure the pressure from custom, popularity to kitsch?

一个开发商如何正视从风俗到流行到媚俗的压力?

5. It is a remarkable exhibit of revolutionary kitsch.

这个革命遗留物品的展览是非同寻常的.