英语释义

• having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;

  "threadbare rugs"

• 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'"

片语

threadbare coats and trousers破烂的衣裤

Threadbare Gypsy Soul歌曲名称

worn-out磨破的；穿旧的；不能再用的

threadbare e磨破的

Raising threadbare起毛露底

old threadbare arguments陈词滥调

stupid傻瓜，笨蛋

threadbare subject陈腐的题目

Threadbare Brother表演者

With A Threadbare一就算这么不

a threadbare beggar一个衣衫褴褛的乞丐

英汉例句

• standing on the threadbare carpet runner in the hall, my father blinks.

  我爸爸站在通道里破旧的地毯上，眨着眼。

• what matters for cuban livelihoods is access to hard currency, through remittances or a widespread informal economy, rather than derisory wages or the threadbare official ration system.

  对古巴人的日常生活而言，保持硬通货是非常重要的，这就需要接受国外汇款或广泛的非正式经济活动，而不是少得可怜的薪水或俗套的官方配额制度。

• after sorting the shoes by size, woodburn selects the sturdiest pairs for the washing machine and the threadbare ones for recycling.

  伍德伯恩按照鞋码将鞋子分类好后， 将比较坚固的鞋子放进洗衣机里洗，非常破旧的就扔了。

• nearly naked, both males and females wore ill-fitting shorts or old-fashioned knickerbockers, and three or four had donned threadbare jerseys.

  他们几乎是光着身子，无论男女都穿不合身的短裤或老式的灯笼裤，有三四个穿着破旧的运动衫。

• he dropped the basket and his threadbare overcoat on the wooden table.

  他把篮子和他那件破旧的大衣放到木桌上。

• the threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside hyderabad is only one example.

  作者在海德拉巴城外乡村看到的捉襟见肘小店就是一个例子。

• showing great reserves of determination, mervyn matthews spent the next five years running a threadbare but relentless campaign to get lyudmila to britain.

  为使恋人能够来到英国，茂文?马修斯表现出了巨大的决心，进行了五年微不足道但却不屈不挠的抗争。

• after much hand-wringing, he decided to return to the united states to attend yale, which overlooked his threadbare high school transcript.

  经过一番痛苦的煎熬，他决定返回美国去耶鲁上大学，而耶鲁也忽视了他一塌糊涂的高中成绩单。

• but the west generally, with its foxy ladies and 20th century hollywood conglomerates, can offer only relatively threadbare comparisons.

  但是在当今的西方，经过狡猾妇人跟20世纪好莱坞的混合加工，只能做相近的对比了。

• in hanoi, the capital, food was rationed in the gloomy pre-reform era, and even senior officials wore threadbare clothes. 「boat people」 were washing up on foreign shores.

  改革前的日子不堪回首，首都河内实行粮食限量供应，就连高级官员也都衣衫褴褛，「船民」们纷纷到国外逃难。

• throughout my conversation with the deputy head, two small teenage girls in threadbare school uniforms sat watching from a brick wall by the playground.

  在我与那位副校长的谈话过程中，两名小女孩穿着破旧的校服，坐在操场旁边的砖墻看着我们。

• and so on a wednesday evening, i went to mr. feinberg’s office, which is almost threadbare compared with most of his peers’ temples of wood-paneled walls and platinum-plated bathroom fixtures.

  所以在某个周三的晚上，我来到费伯格先生看起来有点寒酸的办公室，而与他身份相同的人都拥有实木墻面、镀白金洗手间的豪华办公室。

• over the last decade, the threadbare credibility and legitimacy of arab regimes was undermined by the information revolution.

  过去十年间，阿拉伯各国政权的合法性以及他们糟糕的信誉度，遭到了信息革命的进一步削弱。

• they found mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.

  她们发觉曼丽还象以往一样，在埋头研究和声学以及人性的问题，她拿出了一些新的札记给她们欣赏，又发表一些对旧道德的新见解给她们听。

• the new star philosophy of rewarding managers with bonuses in shares, not cash, looks threadbare now that the shares will be both heavily diluted and delisted from the london stock exchange.

  新星用股份而非现金来奖励其基金经理的哲学现在则已被视为破履，因为公司股份一方面被严重稀释，而另一方面又被伦敦交易所除牌。

相似词

commonplace平凡的，普通的；平庸的，陈腐的