stale
adj. 陳腐的; 不新鮮的; 走了味的
Stale food is no longer fresh or good to eat.
Their daily diet consisted of a lump of stale bread, a bowl of rice and stale water.
他們的日常飲食包括一塊不新鮮的麵包、一碗米飯和變味的水。
Stale air or a stale smells is unpleasant because it is no longer fresh.
A layer of smoke hung low in the stale air.
一層煙霧低懸在汙濁的空氣中。
...the smell of stale sweat.
汗臭味
If you feel stale, you are bored because you have no new ideas or enthusiasm for what you are doing.
I believe in progression, in taking risks, in never getting stale.
我崇尚進取、冒險和永不倦怠。
If you say that a place, an activity, or an idea is stale, you mean that it has become boring because it is always the same.
Her relationship with Mark has become stale...
她和馬克之間已經沒有新鮮感了。
The Government, he said, were sticking to stale ideas.
他說政府仍在抱殘守缺。
1. urinate, of cattle and horses
1. showing deterioration from age;
2. lacking originality or spontaneity; no longer new;
3. no longer new; uninteresting;
They bait the mousetrap with stale cheese.
他們用變質的乳酪作捕鼠夾的誘餌.
The air of the room was fetid with stale tobacco smoke.
房間裡的空氣有陳煙的臭味.
The pale scale on sale probably has a stale tale.
減價出售的天平很可能有一個陳舊的故事.
A selfish shellfish smelt a stale fish.
自私的貝類嗅了嗅不新鮮的魚味.
Nobody likes your stale jokes.
誰也不喜歡聽你那些陳舊的笑話.