Sordid

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a. (形容詞 adjective)



          1.    骯髒的,污穢的

                      They lived in a sordid apartment.

                      他們住在骯髒的公寓房子裡。

          2.    卑鄙的,下賤的;利慾薰心的

                      He was sick of the sordid deal.

                      他厭惡這筆骯髒的交易。

          3.    可憐的;悲慘的

                      a sordid sight

                      悲慘的景象

          4.    色彩暗淡的;灰褐色的





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 - adjective 

1. morally ignoble or base; vile: sordid methods. 

2. meanly selfish, self-seeking, or mercenary. 

3. dirty or filthy. 

4. squalid; wretchedly poor and run-down: sordid housing. 





　

The pulpy influence of director George Miller can be felt in every frame of Dead Calm, from the just-over-the-top performances (the best of which is given by a then-unknown Nicole Kidman), 



to the copious bloodletting and sordid twists in the film's third act.



mercenary squalid smut scurrilous

copious





　　

As director, Affleck (who scripted with Aaron Stockard) relishes [the close-quarters volatility] of Lehane's Balkanized Boston, split along myriad fracture lines [of] class, loyalty, address, and ethnicity. The novelist's specialty is the neighborhood noir, 



in which the (usually sordid) history of a place shadows his characters like the whip hand of doom. 



Whatever the movie version of his Mystic River may have lacked in grimy location detail, it captured the book's claustrophobia, the inescapable shared past that is the mixed blessing of community. 



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