dingy
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1. of a dark, dull, or dirty color or aspect; lacking brightness or freshness.
2. shabby; dismal.
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dinghy (n.), dingy (adj.)
A dinghy (pronounced DING-ee or DING-gee) is a small boat;
anything dingy (pronounced DIN-jee) is dirty, shabby, or squalid.
Affleck, who wrote the screenplay with Aaron Stockard, wants us to feel the dinginess of the [place], as well as the endurance of the men and women who live there, and he mixes in among the actors and the professional extras some local people—including steady drinkers with red, swollen cheeks at a corner bar.
The non-actors stand out; they have a guarded, almost hostile self-sufficiency—their faces yield nothing to the camera. We don’t get the same kind of pleasure from them that we get from Amy Ryan, but they give the movie a sullen authority.
1. 骯髒陰險
squalid
squalor
condition or quality of being squalid
disgusting dirt and filth
So does Beasts of the Southern Wild live up to those wild expectations? Absolutely. It creates an entire new world where a six-year-old girl named Hushpuppy lives in squalor with her father Wink.
scurrilous
sordid
I know what you feel about this evening... about the sordidness of it.
Tracking down a story about a man who pays a doctor to cut off his perfectly good leg, Isaac discovers a sordid underworld of fetish freaks who get off on amputations.
serpent
mercenary
Be wise as [serpents], yet innocent as doves.
vindicate
vindictive
virulent
nefarious
fiendish
nemesis
inexplicable
inextricable
inexorably
inexorable [truth], inexorable [justice]. (unyielding!!!)
smut
dingy
insipidness
insidious
an insidious [disease]. Sham
stubby
sappy
serum
plasma
shabby
[Jake] Gyllenhaal is not too shabby.
A man who runs a food store with few customers lives in a shabby [building] in a quarantined section, and a woman in the same building has a [withdrawn] existence.
I'm sorry, Mr. Biegler. I wouldn't want to interfere with your signals to her. I object to the implication I was signaling the witness. This is the shabbiest courtroom trick I've ever seen.
Rhoda is [devastated] by the deaths she caused and wants to apologize or make amends or … what? She doesn't know. She presents herself at the shabby rural house where Burroughs lives as a depressed [recluse] and makes up a story about doing house cleaning.
crumby
crummy
Slang.
dirty and run-down, shabby, seedy
of little or no value
wretchedly inadequate, miserable, lousy
Go ahead. Talk. I'm listening. I'd like to talk to you... not these characters. You crummy stoolie. Who asked you anything?
When barflies get killed, it's for any of a dozen crummy reasons.
2. 玷污
speckle
a small speck, spot, or mark, as on skin.
and Teshigahara's brilliant handing of the camera seems to communicate how it feels to touch a lonely widow's naked, sand-[speckled] [back].
Imagine a long shot on the Bonneville Salt Flats where he races his motorcycle until it disappears as a [speck] in the distance,
followed by another long shot in which a [speck] in the distance becomes his motorcycle.
dabble
dabble in [politics]
dapple
an animal with a mottled skin or coat.
a dapple [horse]
The Unknown Woman is liberally [sprinkled] with soft-core bondage sequences and
[dappled] with sun-lit flashbacks to happier-hooker days.
splotch
splotchy
All over her legs, splotchy and scorched, were the burned imprints of various coins.
daub
fleck
a spot or mark on the skin, as a freckle.
the dapple [mare] with flecks of gray.
with a slow zoom into the fresh-charred heart of a greasy, gristle-[flecked] beef patty.
blot
It's all parable, a Rorschach blot scenario played out in feminized old-world ritual.
mottle
to mark or diversify with spots or blotches, 斑駁是也
In this, he's helped [immensely] by the mottl[ed] [palette] and over-the-shoulder intensity of Harris Savides's camerawork, which turns a shallow depth of field into existential near-panic.
as ace lenser Maryse Alberti's camera relentlessly follows around aging wrestler Randy "the Ram" Robinson from the back,dyed-blond hair and hulking body before fully revealing his [mottled], puffy face.
tarnish
to dull the luster of a metallic surface, esp. by oxidation, 氧化是也
This [lamp] is tarnished.
The scandal [tarnished] his [reputation].
On screen, for all the occasional majesty of Lars von Trier, Beat Kitano and many others outside the US, it felt like an American decade – which, given the tarnishing of the country's [reputation] thereafter, may be one reason it feels unloved now.
grime
dirt, soot adhering or embedded in a surface, 表面頑垢是也
the metropolis’s daily [grind] and ’70s [grime]
is so well captured by director Joseph Sargent viewers practically suffer the [screeches] and the subway smells.
soot
Can you see the sky from the third floor? I guess I would if the windows weren't covered in soot. 煤灰,煤煙,油煙
Cars are being coated with a soot from the fire.
sully
that her liberat[ed] behavior with an Italian admirer may [sully] her [reputation] in aristocratic circles.
pi
to reduce (printing types) to a state of confusion.
to jumble.
a magnetic, omnisexual [pied] piper of club life with a palpable dark vibe
mar
but eventually fell from both effectiveness and public favor, [marred] by years of scandal, disgrace, and disaster.
besmirch
Though not always as pure as her [snowy] name, she is innocent enough to [drift] into the arms of two [besmirching] men, and end up split between them.
blemish
to destroy or diminish the perfection of
The [book] is blemished by those long, ineffective descriptions.
Mr. Darcy, who never looks any woman but to see a [blemish]
a mark that detracts from appearance, as a pimple or a scar.
with the [wound] diminishing swiftly to a nasty [graze] and, one scene later, to an unblemished [brow].
She has a blemish, which I can't even see. Abby, please take those off.
stigma
the stigmata of [leprosy]
Her behavior will leave a [stigma] on her [family].
Medem's seamless ability to operate on multiple levels of meaning and intertwine internal and external events [elevates] Tierra [from]
the [stigma] of merely serving as a Buñuel homage film.
stigma[ta]
marks resembling the wounds of the crucified body of [Christ],
said to be supernaturally impressed on the bodies of certain persons, esp. nuns, tertiaries, and monastics.
pustule
slough
[Pathology] a mass or layer of [dead] tissue separated from the surrounding or underlying tissue.
to [slough over] a friend's [mistake].
immaculate
smear
The wall was [smeared] with [streaks] of [dirt].
Though the soundtrack is [smeared] with period-appropriate tunes from the likes of Elton John, Bruce Springsteen, 10cc and Bill Evans, pic doesn't overdo the '70s [ambience].
Karin is cold and hostile, hates her husband, cuts herself with a [shard] of glass in an intimate place and then smiles triumphantly as she [smears] the blood on her face.
Regardless of the truth behind the gay/cross-dressing rumor (an image that may have [bloomed] simply as a way to use Hoover’s own [smear] campaigns against him) there’s a lot of material in Hoover’s story that would make it of interest to Dustin Lance Black. I love the idea of him [drafting] this script.
smudgy
There are the primitively designed magazines, with their [smudgy] black-and-white photographs,
I'm a smudge of [excrement] on a tissue surging out to sea with a million tons of raw sewage.
palette
Shooting in the style of a sober documentary with a [desaturated] palette, Truffaut [modulates] the growth of his heroine's obsession so carefully and with such sympathy.
3. 味覺
3.5 嗅覺 Culinary
4. 工具 pallet
4.5 爛人
4.6 爛臉 Schmuck
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