It's the gaudy entertainment for the masses.

那是百姓们艳俗的消遣之物。

All right. Well, don't get anything too garish.

好吧 别买艳俗的。

Otherwise a tacky velvet painting could be equated to a Rembrandt.

否则，艳俗的天鹅绒画亦可 等同于伦伯朗的杰作。

She sat between richly dressed women who were there to spend the day eating sweets and showing off their costly clothing.

她被到一个座位坐下，两边是一些穿着漂亮衣服的女人，她们都是去那里消磨时间，，炫耀她们的艳俗衣着的。

Painters with taste will trust their eye to tell them what needs to be on the canvas and what doesn't; a painter without taste will give us a landscape that's too pretty, or too cluttered, or too gaudy—anyway, too something.

有品味的画家会相信自己的眼睛，告诉他们什么应该出现在画布上，什么不该出现；而缺乏品味的画家则会呈现给我们一幅过于美丽、过于杂乱或过于艳俗的风景——总之，就是过于什么。