参考例句

1. 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。

2. The Defense Department generally defended its existing programs, though the rationale for them was growing threadbare .

   一般来说，国防部总是为自己的现有计划辩护，尽管这些计划的论据已日益陈腐。

3. 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。

4. He wore his coat threadbare .

   他把外套都穿破了。

5. a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.

   穿着破旧不堪或脏衣服而缺乏优雅。

6. 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。

7. Such threadbare coats and trousers never were seen in Rag Fair.

   这样破破烂烂的衣服就是连在旧衣市场也看不到。

8. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.

   骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。

9. 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'.

   陈腐的说教；他的评论陈腐而平凡；陈腐之词；俗套的答案；重复无聊的笑话；模仿陈旧的公理；'象钉子一样坚硬'是古老的比喻。

10. He had thrummed upon this topic till it is threadbare .

    他对这个问题一再发言已使它成为陈词滥调。

同义词

• banal
• commonplace
• hackneyed
• old-hat
• shopworn
• stock(a)
• timeworn
• tired
• trite
• well-worn