| 释义 |
Definition of ersatz in English: ersatzadjectiveˈɛːsatsˈəːsats 1(of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else. （产品）代用的 代用咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples - An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai's cityscape.
- By contrast, there is very little in contemporary metropolitan architecture that rises above the kitsch and the ersatz in its efforts to provide a simulacrum of displaced nature.
- Some of us have props: racing programs, and glasses of ersatz beer.
- It is a sort of ersatz substitute for the hope of heaven.
- The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’.
- In the end, ersatz haggis was produced by our polite hosts.
- The main building has a false front, an ersatz log cabin applied to a World War II-era Quonset hut.
- As the delegates on the floor allowed themselves to be whipped up into fake passion, like that ersatz cream they used to sell during the war, I popped into the overspill where delegates were watching on the giant screen.
- See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they'd grind it up and that was their so-called coffee.
- I don't know if they have reserved occupations over there but I can see them in my head, sitting by the slipways drinking their ersatz coffee.
- Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
- So, instead of entering the dark, airless fug that was Swansea's top coffee shop, I grabbed a take-out burger and ersatz coffee from a burger joint and sat outside to listen to the songs.
- There is nothing ersatz in this polished Edwardian pile, save fake coal fires in secondary rooms.
- Think of the Phoenix-area canals as ersatz rivers, as man-made, tidier, vastly simplified rivers.
- If redwood is not an option where you live, use similarly rot-resistant eastern or western red cedar, inexpensive hemlock, or consider the ersatz wood planks made of recycled plastic.
Synonyms artificial, substitute, imitation, synthetic, fake, false, faux, mock, simulated pseudo, sham, bogus, spurious, counterfeit, forged, pretended, so-called, plastic manufactured, man-made, unnatural, fabricated replica, reproduction, facsimile inferior, low-quality, poor-quality, low-grade, shoddy, substandard, unsatisfactory, adulterated informal phoney - 1.1 Not real or genuine.
假的 虚假的情感。 Example sentencesExamples - In short, the market is divided into real surplus, ersatz surplus, and newly manufactured ammunition and components.
- Today's football-related flag-flying is a pale imitation of that traditional nationalism, a sort of ersatz English patriotism that means little or nothing in political terms.
- An all the remaining ersatz relatives discover that emotions and motives aside, it's poverty and anonymity that truly sucks.
- As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
- Godard was lost in Plato's cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatz world of film proves unsatisfactory - as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.
- Be you the last one standing on the tropical island or in the spotlight on the studio stage, it has been an artificial journey leading to ersatz fame.
- But while those attributes may satisfy your clients' practical side, the product's ersatz appearance may leave some of them feeling a little unsatisfied.
- The ersatz emotions that crawl out of the woodwork with every hit make me instinctively reach for the bug spray.
- This is where Sancho knows his master has lost his marbles since he himself produced this ersatz Dulcinea.
- Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
- Burns was lamenting within his own lifetime a host of ersatz imitators of his achievement.
- Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment.
- That's the difference between real marriage and the ersatz versions peddled by the ‘modernists’ of today.
- Anyone who's down in West Dorset and likes their country pubs real and not ersatz should give either, or preferably both, a whirl.
- Gaming - sporting or otherwise - introduces a whole new set of experience and it doesn't make any difference whether they're ersatz experiences or real ones.
- His voice shaking with ersatz emotion, he recalled how three senior boys surrounded him in such an intimidating manner that he has never forgotten it.
- McAlmont is capable of real emotion, not Armstrong's ersatz approximation of feeling.
- They provide an ersatz community for people who lack community.
- Manufactured memories smother sober analysis and provide ersatz significance to what was, in truth, bewildering chaos.
- The one upside to the fact that we no longer have any real leaders, only ersatz ones slavishly addicted to following public opinion, is that at the end of the day, public outrage really matters.
Synonyms imaginary, imagined, pretended, make-believe, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, invented, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, imitative, sham, simulated, artificial, dummy, false, faux, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo
OriginLate 19th century: from German, literally 'replacement'. Definition of ersatz in US English: ersatzadjective 1(of a product) made or used as a substitute, typically an inferior one, for something else. （产品）代用的 代用咖啡。 Example sentencesExamples - See they never had any coffee in Europe, it was what they call ersatz coffee, and this was made out of kind of charred acorns and they'd grind it up and that was their so-called coffee.
- I don't know if they have reserved occupations over there but I can see them in my head, sitting by the slipways drinking their ersatz coffee.
- The object the drive excessively fixates upon, meanwhile, is in no sense an ersatz or secondary substitute for an impossible, unattainable object; for the drive, there is no ‘thing-in-itself’.
- By contrast, there is very little in contemporary metropolitan architecture that rises above the kitsch and the ersatz in its efforts to provide a simulacrum of displaced nature.
- Some of us have props: racing programs, and glasses of ersatz beer.
- Think of the Phoenix-area canals as ersatz rivers, as man-made, tidier, vastly simplified rivers.
- So, instead of entering the dark, airless fug that was Swansea's top coffee shop, I grabbed a take-out burger and ersatz coffee from a burger joint and sat outside to listen to the songs.
- It is a sort of ersatz substitute for the hope of heaven.
- As the delegates on the floor allowed themselves to be whipped up into fake passion, like that ersatz cream they used to sell during the war, I popped into the overspill where delegates were watching on the giant screen.
- Anne cannot sleep because of the air raids, and they are eating terribly-dry bread and ersatz coffee for breakfast, spinach and rotten potatoes for dinner.
- An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai's cityscape.
- The main building has a false front, an ersatz log cabin applied to a World War II-era Quonset hut.
- There is nothing ersatz in this polished Edwardian pile, save fake coal fires in secondary rooms.
- If redwood is not an option where you live, use similarly rot-resistant eastern or western red cedar, inexpensive hemlock, or consider the ersatz wood planks made of recycled plastic.
- In the end, ersatz haggis was produced by our polite hosts.
Synonyms artificial, substitute, imitation, synthetic, fake, false, faux, mock, simulated - 1.1 Not real or genuine.
假的 虚假的情感。 Example sentencesExamples - The one upside to the fact that we no longer have any real leaders, only ersatz ones slavishly addicted to following public opinion, is that at the end of the day, public outrage really matters.
- Gaming - sporting or otherwise - introduces a whole new set of experience and it doesn't make any difference whether they're ersatz experiences or real ones.
- An all the remaining ersatz relatives discover that emotions and motives aside, it's poverty and anonymity that truly sucks.
- Burns was lamenting within his own lifetime a host of ersatz imitators of his achievement.
- Most books with names like this one are inferior works filled with an ersatz cynicism that pales beside the real article.
- Be you the last one standing on the tropical island or in the spotlight on the studio stage, it has been an artificial journey leading to ersatz fame.
- McAlmont is capable of real emotion, not Armstrong's ersatz approximation of feeling.
- But while those attributes may satisfy your clients' practical side, the product's ersatz appearance may leave some of them feeling a little unsatisfied.
- His voice shaking with ersatz emotion, he recalled how three senior boys surrounded him in such an intimidating manner that he has never forgotten it.
- That's the difference between real marriage and the ersatz versions peddled by the ‘modernists’ of today.
- The ersatz emotions that crawl out of the woodwork with every hit make me instinctively reach for the bug spray.
- In short, the market is divided into real surplus, ersatz surplus, and newly manufactured ammunition and components.
- Anyone who's down in West Dorset and likes their country pubs real and not ersatz should give either, or preferably both, a whirl.
- Godard was lost in Plato's cave from the outset, so he should not be surprised when this illusory ersatz world of film proves unsatisfactory - as a replacement for life, it is indeed a very unsatisfactory substitute.
- Today's football-related flag-flying is a pale imitation of that traditional nationalism, a sort of ersatz English patriotism that means little or nothing in political terms.
- As for the national outpouring of ersatz grief, reminiscent of the scenes that followed the death of Princess Diana, it surely spoke not of feeling but of an egotistical inability to feel, compensated for by outward show.
- They provide an ersatz community for people who lack community.
- Manufactured memories smother sober analysis and provide ersatz significance to what was, in truth, bewildering chaos.
- This is where Sancho knows his master has lost his marbles since he himself produced this ersatz Dulcinea.
- Those two songs have proved remarkably prescient in their bogus rebellion and ersatz torment.
Synonyms imaginary, imagined, pretended, make-believe, made-up, fantasy, fantasized, fancied, dream, dreamed-up, unreal, fanciful, invented, fictitious, fictive, mythical, feigned, fake, mock, imitative, sham, simulated, artificial, dummy, false, faux, spurious, bogus, counterfeit, fraudulent, forged, pseudo
OriginLate 19th century: from German, literally ‘replacement’. |