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down-home

/doun-hohm/US // ˈdaʊnˈhoʊm //

朴实无华,朴实的,朴实无华的,朴素的

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or exhibiting the simple, familiar, or folksy qualities associated with one's family or with rural areas, especially of the southern U.S.: down-home cooking; down-home hospitality.

Examples

  • That officer fretting about his “stance,” we learn, is plagued by PTSD that cripples him both on the job and at home.

  • So, Islamized teaching sends girls back home for marriage and housework, and remains exclusively for boys.

  • Clad in a blue, striped button-down, a silver watch adorning his left wrist, Huckabee beams on the cover.

  • Meanwhile, almost exactly 30 years after the trial, the judge left his home to board a steamboat and was never heard from again.

  • That article noted that the F-35 does not currently have the ability to down-link live video to ground troops,.

  • Then there was Wee Wo,—he was a little Chinese chap, and we used to send him down the chimneys to open front doors for us.

  • The bride elect rushes up to him, and so they both step down to the foot-lights.

  • I take the Extream Bells, and set down the six Changes on them thus.

  • His wife stood smiling and waving, the boys shouting, as he disappeared in the old rockaway down the sandy road.

  • So he bore down on the solemn declaration that she stood face to face with a prison term for perjury.