cut a sorry figure 中文意思是什麼

cut a sorry figure 解釋
顯出一副狼狽相
  • cut : vt (cut; cutting)1 切,割,截,斬,砍(樹),剪(發等);切斷,割下;採伐;剪下;修剪,刈。 I h...
  • a : an 用在以母音音素開始的詞前〉 indefinite art 1 〈普通可數名詞第一次提到時,冠以不定冠詞主要表示類...
  • sorry : adj 1 〈用作 pred 〉可憐的;覺得難過的 (for; to do; that ); 懊悔的,覺得過意不去的 (for); 抱...
  • figure : n 1 外形,形狀,外觀;姿態。2 畫像,塑像。3 圖形,圖案;插圖;圖表。4 人影,人形;人物。5 風度,...
  1. As everybody knows, fine feathers make fine birds ; a peasant girl but very moderately prepossessing to the casual observer in her simple condition and attire, will bloom as an amazing beauty if clothed as a woman of fashion with the aids that art can render ; while the beauty of the midnight crush would often cut but a sorry figure if placed inside the field - woman s wrapper upon a monotonous acreage of turnips on a dull day

    正如所有的人知道的那樣,人是樹樁,還要衣妝一個農村女孩子穿著簡單的服飾,隨隨便便看上去就讓人喜愛,要是像一個時髦女人加以打扮,加上藝術的修飾,就會光彩照人美不勝收了。而半夜舞會里的那些美女們,要是穿上鄉村種地婦女的衣服,在沉悶的天氣里站在單調的胡蘿卜地里,她們就會常常顯得可憐寒酸了。
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