Apple's annoying "I'm a Mac" ads are strikingly personal: they pitch a frumpy Bill Gates lookalike against a too-cool-for-school Jobs doppelganger (with added hair).(蘋果煩人的廣告“ImaMac”便凸顯了其個性：選擇同比爾·蓋茨非常相像的壞人與喬布斯的自命不凡的化身(頭發比真人多)相對抗。)

They can not only be worn as a skirt but also as a strapless dress best accessorized with a thick weaved leather belt slung loosely around the waist to avoid looking frumpy.(它們不僅僅可以當裙子穿，還可以作為無吊帶的長裙穿，最好是配上一條粗厚的皮質編織腰帶，松垮地掛在腰際當裝飾，這樣看起來就不會有落伍之感。)

It wasn't until I saw myself on TV that I realised how frumpy I was.(直到我在電視上看到自己，我才意識到自己是多么地上不了臺面。)

Compared with the newer energy technologies that are now sweeping the world, however, they look old-fashioned and a bit frumpy.(但是在充斥著新技術的現代世界里，它們看上去就略顯陳舊落伍了。)

The frumpy Virginia Woolf even went on a "Pretty Woman"-style shopping expedition at French couture houses in London with the magazine's fashion editor in 1925.(1925年，一向打扮過時老土的弗吉尼亞·吳爾芙甚至還在該雜志時尚編輯的陪同下，去位于倫敦的法國時裝店購置“漂亮女人”風格的衣服。)

I looked so frumpy next to these women.(站在這些女人旁邊，我看起來傻里傻氣的。)

“There’s no upside to looking frumpy or dowdy, ” said Simon Doonan, the creative director of Barneys New York, where the campaign reported spending only $789.72, or enough for almost one outfit.(“看上去象未見過世面或寒酸則沒有上升的希望”，紐約巴尼斯百貨的創意總監SimonDoonan稱，競選報道僅花了789.72美元，就足以支付整個一套裝備。)

The actress, who is married to Michael Douglas, says: "I used to dress down and try to look plain and frumpy.(這位嫁給邁克爾·道格拉斯的著名女演員透露：“我曾經穿著邋遢，讓自己看上去平平無奇、土啦吧唧。)

It represents a complete design departure from the frumpy "retro" look with which Jaguar has saddled its often well-engineered saloons for the last decade.(它代表著與捷豹過去十年設計精密的過時“復古”外形設計的徹底告別。)

Ms. Trayler added that she was also thinking of making over “George Eliot, who was frumpy, and William Wordsworth, who was pretty hideous.”(翠勒女士還說她也考慮過修改看起來不太友善的喬治·愛略特和十分可怕的威廉.華茲華斯。)