英语释义

• 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'"

• showing signs of much wear or use

片语

stock存货的，常备的；平凡的

Well-Worn U破损不堪

These are well- worn arguments这些是耳熟能详的议论

A well-worn pair of pants旧牛仔裤

well-worn excuses陈腐的借口

Well-worn jacket穿旧了的

ordinary普通；平常的人（或事）

英汉例句

• Their encounters fell into a well-worn pattern: tense standoffs, ending in frustration or tragedy.

  他们所遇到的陷入了老套的桥段：紧张的僵局，以失败或者悲剧结束。

• I lead them along well-worn paths where I know we will find food and water.

  我带着它们去繁茂之地，在那里找到食物和水。

• Instead of responding, your father wanders off on a well-worn memory about the house, and how he and your mother purchased it just three months after your brother was born.

  没有回答，你父亲带着古老的记忆在房间里徘徊，他回想着你兄弟出生三个月后他和你母亲如何买下了这座房子。

• Official statements from both countries rarely stray from well-worn diplomatic language and are often hard to interpret.

  两国的官方声明很少偏离陈词滥调的外交语言，而且往往让人琢磨不透。

• We often get wrapped up in Silicon Valley with the 「new-new」 way that we can forget many times we「re simply rediscovering well-worn lessons that date back to the beginnings of commerce.

  置身硅谷的我们时常淹没在各种「新新」方式之中，我们常常忘记了，我们只是在重新发现一些可追溯至涉及商业根本的朴素教训。

• He appeared frequently drained at stages of the 21-month campaign, stumbling over statistics and well-worn stump speeches in the final days before the election.

  他似乎被21个月的竞选弄得筋疲力尽了，在大选前几天里，他的演讲毫无新意而且在读数据时结结巴巴。

• It is, in other words, a fourth example of anthropological tourism from Africa to the rest of the world, on what is now looking like a well-worn route.

  换句话说，新人种从一条现在看起来平淡无奇的路线从非洲到了世界其他地方，他是古人类旅行史上的第四个例子。

• I will forever more feel a touch guilty while sitting in that well-worn corner of my couch to play a video game.

  说了这么多，窝在沙发上破旧一角，玩着电视游戏的我，可能永远不愿再去触碰那些游戏按键了。

• Protecting creditors is a well-worn way of muting financial panic, and for a while at least the guarantee did just that.

  保护债权人是减小金融恐慌的一个惯常的方法，而且至少在那个时候，政府的保证确实减小了恐慌。

• Publicly, Israel has stuck to its well-worn line that no option should be ruled out.

  在公开场合，以色列坚持不排除任何选项的老路线。

• Toward the end of the win over the Nets, we saw Mutombo and Jackson perched on the bench, two mounds of ice on their well-worn knees.

  赢网队那场球的末尾，我们看到穆托姆博和杰克逊在板凳上歇着，两堆冰袋放在他们包裹的好好的膝盖上。

• As the well-worn saying goes, on the Internet, nobody knows you」re a dog.

  人们常说一句话，在互联网上，没人知道你是只狗。

• The chapter on streaking retells the well-worn stories of long-ago escapades at sporting events, but the reader longs to hear from the participants.

  裸奔的那一章还在重复已经毫无新意的运动比赛中的造势者，但是读者希望听听主人公的声音。

• Children sit at rows of desks, staring up at a teacher who stands in front of a well-worn chalkboard.

  孩子们一排一排坐在课桌前，抬头看着站在被磨损得快坏了的黑板前的老师。

• The game becomes interesting only when it treads on new territory and the computer is forced to recalculate in response to an original placing of pieces rather than continue down a well-worn path.

  只有计算机踏入新的领域，根据棋子最初的布局来（自己）重新权衡怎么走棋，而不是沿着现成的路线走，游戏才变得有趣起来。

• Everyday Practice of Science by Frederick Grinnell argues the well-worn and obvious point that science is a human activity.

  弗雷德里克·格林内尔的《日常科学实践》重复了一个老生常谈并显而易见的观点，即科学是一种人类活动。

• Earnest environmental concerns are also starting to flip well-worn phrases on their heads.

  热切关注的环境问题也开始翻动那些耳熟能详的短语。

• Apparently, reading from the well-worn Apple playbook, the company has not commented publicly about the battery complaints.

  显而易见，鑒于苹果公司以往一贯的做法，他们是不会公开就用户对电池问题的抱怨作出评论的。

• Yet there is nothing unusual about such lofty declarations; indeed, those who make them are treading a well-worn path.

  然而这类崇高的声明并不稀罕，实际上，他们因此而让自己走在一条陈旧的道路上。

• Today, the Ground Zero site remains a popular tourist destination and is included on tours through most New York tour companies, alongside the Statue of Liberty and other well-worn destinations.

  今天，事发地点仍然是一个热门的旅游目的地，而且它也被加入了绝大部分纽约旅游公司的旅游线路当中，与自由女神像和其他的知名景点其名。

• Martin Deboo, an analyst at Investec Securities, a stockbroker, uses the well-worn but apt analogy of the 「perfect storm」 to describe the industry「s predicament.

  马丁得布，股票经纪公司Investec Securities（投资证券公司）的分析员，用「完美风暴」这种老套的但是容易的类比来描述食品产业的困境。

• That 」Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 「I wish I」d spent more time at the office, 「' is a well-worn idiom.

  「从来没人在临终之际说：‘我要是把更多的时间花在了办公室就好了。’」 这句话被人们引用了无数次。

• In warmer weather, water drains off the mossy, treeless summit of one of Scotland」s most eerily beautiful landscapes, cascading over well-worn rocks for several hundred feet.

  气候温暖的时候，水从布满苔藓，树木稀落的山峰上流下来，这是苏格兰最怪异且最漂亮的自然景观。流过几百尺厚陈腐的巖石。

• John] McCain, [Bob] Casey, maybe [Carl] Levin, but I don’t know if I will have enough time,” he told me, wearing jeans and a well-worn T shirt that said SUPER CHEVROLET SERVICE.

  他当时穿着牛仔裤和一件穿旧了的短袖汗衫，上面印着「超级雪弗莱服务」。

相似词

accustomed使习惯于（accustom的过去分词）

相反词

fresh开始；新生；泛滥

new新的，新鲜的；更新的；初见的

novel小说

original原件，原版；（文学中）原型；（歌，画等的）原创作品；原版唱片；真品原版服装；古怪的人

unhackneyed不陈腐的；没经验的