homely GRE

Her mother is a homely woman.

她实的妇女。

Times are changed and we must, to use the homely metaphor, cut our coat according to our cloth.

时代变了, 因此, 用实的隐喻来讲, 我们必须“适应环境”。

She quite forgot Hurstwood's presence at times, and looked away to homely farmhouses and cosey cottages in villages with wondering eyes.

她有时连赫斯渥的存在都忘了，只顾用惊奇的目光看着远处那些乡村中简的农舍和舒适的小屋。

But their surfaces bear witness to homely labor: Topping the tallest stone, once part of a trilithon, is a tenon—half of a mortise-and-tenon joint borrowed from woodworking.

但巨石的表面见证了平凡的劳动：曾三石塔组成部分最高的那块巨石有一凸榫——从木材加工借鉴而来的半榫臼接头。