Of the meretricious splendour I had heard so much there is not a trace.

我听到过很多对此地豪华装饰的描述，但是我找不到一丝这样的痕迹。

I saw the beauty of Shangri-la, the meretricious of Dali, the impatience of Lijiang, and the uneducated people of Yunnan.

见识了香格里拉的美，见识了大理的俗，见识了丽江的躁，也见识到了云南人的蛮。

The perspective just as moral truths, that are presented in their simplicity without the meretricious AIDS of ornament or glitter.

远景就象真理一样的朴实无华，没有任何矫揉造作和脑人耳目的虚饰。

It was a platinum fob chain simple and chaste in design, properly proclaiming its value by substance alone and not by meretricious ornamentation — as all good things should do.

这礼物就是一条白金表链，款式简单朴素，货真价实，不是靠花哨的包装、而是靠真正的质量正当地显示自己的价值，一切好的东西都应该如此。

So it is not surprising that politically expedient assertions about China have become as American as fortune cookies, and as sententiously meretricious as the prophecies and advice these encase.

所以毫不奇怪，既有将中国视为同美国一般财富源泉的积极的政治评价，也有说教的预言和忠告，称中国不过是华而不实、徒有其表。