1·The silver yo-yo that Jerry kept on his office desk was a gimcrack he had won as a carnival prize many years ago.
杰里放在他办公桌上的银质溜溜球是他在多年前赢得的狂欢节礼物,一个华而不实的小东西。
2·"ligeia", which poe thought his best grotesque story, is now, for most readers, a jumble of morbid self-pity, diabolism, and gimcrack gothicism .
波自认《莉盖娅》是他怪诞小说中的上品,现在大部分读者认为不过是病态自怜,魔鬼附身,浮华怪诞的大杂烩而已。
3·That's a 33% increase in the cost of producing one gimcrack in Greece after you've deducted all the benefits of any increase in the productivity of Greek workers.
也就是说希腊每制造一个小玩意,就有了这个刨除了希腊工人生产力提高所得的所有收益后的33%成本的增长。