Affections of manner and speech are mere frippery 態(tài)度和語言的做作只是矯飾而已。
She often wears ornaments of frippery 她常戴些低俗的裝飾品。
The appeal of such fripperies palls faster than people expect , they say 他們聲稱不必要的昂貴飾品的吸引力的消失比人們的預(yù)期要快得多。
Where drugs to change personality traits were once seen as medicinal fripperies , or enhancements , they are now seen as entitlements 那里,藥物改變了人格特性一度曾被看作是醫(yī)學(xué)上的無用,或進(jìn)步,它們現(xiàn)在被看作是權(quán)利。
And as bryan caplan , of george mason university , points out , many trinkets and fripperies themselves provide a stream of experiences 就像喬治?梅森大學(xué)的布賴恩?卡普蘭指出的那樣,許多小玩意兒、不必要的昂貴飾品本身就提供了一連串的經(jīng)歷。