threadbare的中文翻譯是什麼意思
threadbare
adj. （衣服等）穿舊的; （衣料等）磨得很薄的; 陳舊的; 老一套的
threadbare的柯林斯釋義
ADJ-GRADED(衣服、地毯等)破舊的，磨薄的，陳舊的
Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much.
She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
她盤腿坐在一塊破舊的方形地毯上。
ADJ-GRADED(活動、想法、論點)無力的，不充分的，陳舊乏味的
If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting.
...the government's threadbare domestic policies.
政府陳腐的國內政策
threadbare的英文釋義
Adjective
1. repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse;
- bromidic sermons
- his remarks were trite and commonplace
- hackneyed phrases
- a stock answer
- repeating threadbare jokes
- parroting some timeworn axiom
- the trite metaphor `hard as nails'
2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
- threadbare rugs
threadbare的場景例句
Life in peacetime Britain was grey threadbare dreary and hopeless.
和平時期英國的生活是灰色、乏味、沉悶並且無望的.
Standing on the threadbare carpet runner in hall, my father blinks.
我爸爸站在通道里破舊的地毯上,眨著眼.
Such threadbare coats and trousers never were seen in Rag Fair.
這樣破破爛爛的衣服就是連在舊衣市場也看不到.
He wore his coat threadbare.
他把外套都穿破了.
Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
驕傲可能會潛藏在穿舊的斗篷下.