Her mother is a homely woman.

她母亲个朴实妇女。

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

时代变了, 因此, 用朴实隐喻来讲, 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.

她有时连赫斯渥存在都忘了，只顾用惊奇目光看着远处那些乡村中简朴农舍和舒适小屋。

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.

但巨石证了平凡劳动：曾三石塔组成部分最高那块巨石有一个凸榫——从木材加工借鉴而来半个榫臼接头。