threadbare是什么意思？

threadbare

英[ˈθredbeə(r)] 美[ˈθredber]

• adj. （衣服等）穿旧的，（衣料等）磨得很薄的，陈旧的，老一套的；

例句

• Standing on the threadbare carpet runner in hall, my father blinks. 我爸爸站在通道里破旧的地毯上,眨着眼.
• The coat is worn threadbare. 这件外衣已经穿旧了.
• The carpets had worn rather threadbare. 地毯已磨得相当破旧了.
• 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。
• ...the government's threadbare domestic policies. 政府陈腐的国内政策
• 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。
• 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。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• 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.
  例句
  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。
• 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.
  例句
  ...the government's threadbare domestic policies. 政府陈腐的国内政策

英汉词典释义

• adj.
  (衣服等)穿旧的,(衣料等)磨得很薄的
  The coat is worn threadbare. 这件外衣已经穿旧了。 The carpets had worn rather threadbare. 地毯已磨得相当破旧了。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. 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'"
  2. having the nap worn away so that the threads show through;
  "threadbare rugs"