threadbare
英 [ˈθredbeə(r)]
美 [ˈθredber]
adj. 穿旧的; 磨薄的; 破旧的; 老一套的; 陈腐的
BNC.20165 / COCA.19064
牛津词典
adj.
- 穿旧的;磨薄的;破旧的
old and thin because it has been used a lot- a threadbare carpet
磨薄了的地毯
- a threadbare carpet
- 老一套的;陈腐的
that does not have much effect, especially because it has been used too much
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED (衣服、地毯等)破旧的,磨薄的,陈旧的
Threadbareclothes, 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.
她盘腿坐在一块破旧的方形地毯上。
- She sat cross-legged on a square of threadbare carpet.
- ADJ-GRADED (活动、想法、论点)无力的,不充分的,陈旧乏味的
If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument asthreadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting.- ...the government's threadbare domestic policies.
政府陈腐的国内政策
- ...the government's threadbare domestic policies.
英英释义
adj
- repeated too often
- 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'
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
- threadbare rugs
双语例句
- A frayed or threadbare spot, as on fabric. a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing.
磨损处(如织物上的)磨散或磨光绒毛之处用来磨平打磨或抛光的工具或机器。 - Add to this the fact that no one wants to be Billy No Mates and you have the recipe for an explosion of transient and threadbare friendship.
另外,没有人希望成为没有几个朋友的可怜人,你可以拥有众多短暂而俗套的友谊。 - But Mr Park was more convincing in portraying himself as the capital's "first welfare mayor" in a country with only threadbare social-safety nets.
但朴先生的立场更令人折服,他把自己描绘成了这个社保陈旧的国家中前无古人的“民生市长”。 - But, with much of this wealth tied up in horrific stock markets, tycoons are a looking a little more threadbare.
然而,由于大部分财富绑牢在可怕的股票市场,巨富们的外表看起来没那么光鲜了。 - The shabby, threadbare dress, in its best days, couldn't have been labeled a "gown." there was no train, no veil.
那身破旧褴褛的衣服,在新的时候也不能算是“礼服”。即没有拖裙,也没有面纱。 - The Defence Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare.
一般来说,国防部总是为它自己的计划辩护,尽管这些计划的论据已日益显得陈腐。 - The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing
这件家具很破旧,显然他是白捡来的了。 - Talk about getting something had become even too threadbare and ridiculous for him.
关于要找事做的那套话,连他自己都觉得乏味可笑。 - And blue is the colour of the jeans area, where the most unusual fabrications include broken, threadbare and jacquard jeans, coated textures and stretch weave effects.
提花,涂层和弹性面料上,制造磨破,同时也被广泛地用于牛仔服装。 - She produced the old threadbare excuses& the alarm didn't go off, the train was late, etc.
她说着老一套的借口&闹钟没响,火车晚点等等。