well-worn

1. ADJ-GRADED （话语、主意等）使用过多的,陈腐的,无新意的
   A well-worn expression, remark, or idea has been used so often that it no longer seems to have much meaning or to be interesting.
   1. To use a well-worn cliche, it is packed with information.
      说得老套一点，其内容翔实。
   2. ...well-worn party dogma and ideology.
      迂腐不堪的政党教条和意识形态
2. ADJ-GRADED （物品）使用很久的;（衣物）穿旧了的
   A well-worn object or piece of clothing has been worn or used so frequently that it looks rather old and untidy.
   1. ...well-worn brown shoes.
      穿旧了的棕色鞋子

1. Before you is a well-worn path of beaten earth.
   在你面前是一条踩出来的陈年小道。
2. To use a well-worn cliche, it is packed with information.
   说得老套一点，其内容翔实。
3. In other words, they stuff experiences into well-worn patterns.
   换言之，大脑会把经验转化为固定模式。
4. As we researched ecosystems ( gatherings of business participants engaged in some form of collaboration), we found that the well-worn term perfectly characterized the nuances of MSDOS and other webs.
   我们再来研究一下生态系统，也就是即商业参与者通过某种形式的合作组成的集群，我们发现这个了无新意的词汇完美地凸显了MSDOS和其他网络的微妙之处。
5. Here and there sat well-worn stumps and logs and the remnants of a campfire.
   到处都是用旧了的树桩和圆木，还有篝火的灰烬。
6. But this flavor can often be soured by that well-worn poisoner of relationships everywhere: Money.
   不过，在一个东西面前，这种味道就变质了，虽然这个东西平凡得不能再平凡，却是所有感情的毒药，那就是：钱。
7. 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。
8. In this, the Tennessee Senator follows a well-worn rhetorical path.
   这位田纳西参议员选择了一条俗套的路线。
9. Make Your Own Path Average likes comfortable. Average likes the well-worn path that is easy to follow.
   选择你自己的道路普通人喜欢安逸，普通人喜欢那种容易遵循的旧方式。
10. And when the well-worn garments were put to the smell test, researchers came up with a sweet-smelling discovery-the jeans didn't actually smell that bad.
    当把这些穿久了的牛仔裤拿来做味觉试验时，研究人员有了一项惊奇的发现这些牛仔裤的味道并没有那么差。
11. But on Wednesday, he coupled those well-worn arguments with a national security-themed call to action to Coast Guard graduates just minutes before they received their commissions.
    但在周三，除了这些老生常谈的观点之外，他还以国家安全为由，在海岸警卫队学院的毕业生收到任职令之前几分钟呼吁他们采取行动。
12. These well-worn theories are among seven medical myths exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal.
    这些老生常谈在《英国医学杂志》的一篇论文中被列入七项医学误区。
13. Released from prison, S á nchez followed the well-worn route of Cuban exiles to America in 2008.
    出狱后，他走了一条古巴流放人员走的老路&于2008年逃往美国。
14. China Little T ( r) ips is a series of guides for those who want to get off the well-worn tourist path in China, but don't have the inside knowledge or the language skills to do so.
    中国小贴士（ChinaLittleT（r）ips）是一套系列导游书，适合那些既想避开游客泛滥的景点，但又对中国的内情和语言了解不多的游客。
15. That well-worn homeowner tradition may soon come to an end.
    在千家万户中不时发生的这一幕，可能很快就会终结。
16. In academia, there is a well-worn distinction between activities that have to be coordinated by an organization and activities that can take place in an open market.
    学术界都知道，必须由企业协调的行为和可以在公开市场发生的行为，是存在区别的。
17. The technology is well-known and well-worn, but it comes with a major downside: liquid crystals provide no light of their own.
    这一技术很知名，也很成熟，但它也有一个比较大的缺点：液晶自己是不发光的，液晶背后的发光板会显著影响电池寿命。
18. Well-worn horror tropes also have provided a laundry list of gimmicks filmmakers need to work around& or use to misdirect audiences anew.
    已经被用滥的恐怖手法也提供了一长串电影导演需绕开或者用来重新误导观众的招数。
19. It is frightening to veer off the well-worn path, better known as our "comfort zone".
    抛弃旧路是可怕的，因为那是我们的舒适区。
20. 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InvestecSecurities（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。
21. For many years thereafter, the two families watched the faithful friends frolicking and chasing each other down that well-worn path between their houses.
    此后多年中，两家邻居不时会看到这对忠实的朋友嬉戏玩耍，在两家房子之间的小路上你追我赶。
22. A large percentage stayed, raising their children as we were raised along well-worn paths.
    大部分留下来养儿育女，就像我们依照平凡的途径被养大。
23. Where other governments try to keep global public opinion on their side by arguing their case publicly and through background briefings and targeted leaks to the media, Beijing rarely offers more than a set of well-worn generalities.
    在其他国家政府通过公开辩护、背景吹风会和针对性地向媒体透露消息，努力让全球舆论站在自己这边的问题上，北京方面除了千篇一律的套话以外很少有其他举措。
24. He began to search in the right-hand pocket of his well-worn and baggy linen suit.
    他开始在那件磨得很旧的，肥大的衣服上的右边口袋里东摸西摸。
25. True to this relaxed ethos, today he wears frayed, well-worn jeans, brown shoes ( that to my eyes look like clogs), a white-and-green-striped shirt, and grey stubble.
    今天，他穿着一条磨破的旧牛仔裤，脚踏一双（在我看来像是木屐的）棕色鞋，上身是一件绿白条纹的衬衫，留着一头灰色的短发，一派轻松气质。
26. The coaches were the first to speak, after all, and dutifully avoided handing their opponents motivational nuggets by relying on well-worn phrases about "respect" and "not underestimating anyone".
    主教练们发言后都不约而同的回避直接谈论他们对手的优势，并用了一些老生常谈的话语比如“尊敬”，“不会低估任何人”。
27. One well-worn assertion is that cybercrime revenues exceed those from the global trade in illegal drugs.
    有句陈词滥调说网络犯罪的收益甚至超过了全球的非法毒品走私。
28. That stance is based on old arguments, but they are not less potent for being well-worn.
    这一立场基于一些陈旧的论据，虽然早已重复多遍，但雄辩力不减。
29. Most countries have well-worn laws against touting on street corners, against the more brazen type of brothel and against pimping.
    大多数国家仍然使用著陈旧的法律，它们禁止在街角挑逗，禁止较为无耻的妓院和拉皮条。
30. The whole interior seems to be made up of dark, well-worn wood.
    餐馆内部整个装饰似乎都由黑色、老化严重的木材组成。

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)threadbaretimeworntiredtrite

2. showing signs of much wear or use