threadbare

adj.

1. 穿旧的；磨薄的；破旧的
   old and thin because it has been used a lot
   1. a threadbare carpet
      磨薄了的地毯
2. 老一套的；陈腐的
   that does not have much effect, especially because it has been used too much

1. ADJ-GRADED (衣服、地毯等)破旧的，磨薄的，陈旧的
   Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much.
   1. 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。
2. 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 as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting.
   1. ...the government's threadbare domestic policies.
      政府陈腐的国内政策

1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. Or, on a smaller scale, you may want to take inventory of your linens to see if you need to replenish some that have become threadbare.
   或者么，你可能会整理一份家织用品的清单来看看哪些是已经旧了需要更新换代的。
5. The stairs opened onto a sitting room with a threadbare carpet and a small fireplace, above which hung a single large oil painting of a blonde girl who gazed out at the room with a kind of vacant sweetness.
   楼梯顶上是客厅，铺着破旧的地毯，还有个小小的壁炉，壁炉上方挂着一幅很大的油画，画上是一个金发的姑娘茫然而温柔地望着屋内。
6. 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”。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. 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。
10. The carpets had worn rather threadbare.
    地毯已磨得相当破旧了。
11. In their threadbare logic and refusal to acknowledge moral complexity, these views are almost interchangeable.
    这两种观点在缺乏逻辑和拒绝承认道德的复杂性方面，可谓半斤八两。
12. 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。
13. 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。
14. The Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper, threadbare carpet, gas lamps, and a serpent-shaped, cobwebby candleabra.
    一楼门廊是一个巨大的房间，墙上贴着剥落的墙纸，破旧的地毯，煤气灯和一个大蛇形状的蛛网状枝形吊灯和枝形烛台。
15. 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。
16. 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。
17. Mr Krugman, speaking at a conference in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, pins much of the blame on a threadbare social safety net, which has shrunk even as China has grown richer.
    在越南胡志明市举行的一个会议上指出，克鲁格曼将主要原因归咎于社会保障网络的不完善在中国日益富裕之际，该网络甚至出现了收缩。
18. Life in peacetime Britain was grey, threadbare, dreary and hopeless.
    和平时期英国的生活是灰色、乏味、沉闷并且无望的。
19. Becky cried, and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her, but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use, and sounded like sarcasms.
    贝基哭起来，汤姆想另换话题来安慰她，可是她已不止一次听到他这样鼓励，现在这些鼓励的话听起来倒像是在挖苦她。
20. He wore his coat threadbare.
    他把外套都穿破了。
21. Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.
    骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下。
22. Even the new excuses created by technology are starting to look threadbare.
    即便是技术创造出的新借口也开始显得老套。
23. 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。
24. There were no sheets, but the blanket they lay on was threadbare and smooth, and the size and springiness of the bed astonished both of them.
    那床上没有床单，可身下的毛毯早磨得光溜溜，床也是又大又松软，这倒叫他们挺好奇。
25. The textile sector is a huge employer with threadbare margins that have been worn away by currency appreciation and rising input costs.
    纺织行业提供了大量的就业机会，而它的利润却被人民币升值及日益上涨的投入成本所蚕食。
26. 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。
27. She would let Bess have her room, but the mattress was so lumpy, the carpet so worn, the curtains so threadbare that Lottie's conscience pricked her.
    把她自己的卧室给碧丝住好了。但是床垫垮得太厉害，地毯太破旧，窗帘太褴褛，珞蒂有些于心不安。
28. My angel was sewing the ragged pieces of cloth together, threadbare and empty, like binding air.
    我的天使把每一块破烂的布都缝在一起，磨破烂了的洞像结冰的空气。
29. As the old man stares down at the threadbare carpet, a mangy dog chews at scraps under the kitchen sink.
    当这老人凝视脚下磨掉了毛的地毯时，一只脱了毛的狗正在厨房污水槽下嚼食残羹剩饭。
30. 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。

adj

1. repeated too often
   1. bromidic sermons
   2. his remarks were trite and commonplace
   3. hackneyed phrases
   4. a stock answer
   5. repeating threadbare jokes
   6. parroting some timeworn axiom
   7. the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

   Synonym:    banalcommonplacehackneyedold-hatshopwornstock(a)timeworntiredtritewell-worn

2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
   1. threadbare rugs