shopworn

英漢解釋

英英解釋

例句

Shopworn as these metaphors may be, they aptly capture the extreme and unexpected nature of the circumstances.

盡管這種隱喻可能已是陳腔濫調，但它們仍恰如其分地抓住了事情不可預知性和極端性的本質。

He was fat and looked shopworn around the nose and mouth .

他人長得胖，鼻頭和嘴巴部分顯出一副不合時宜的可憐相。

John C, with its sliced tennis balls on the ends of chair and desk legs, is shopworn but pristine.

約翰·C設施陳舊（學校的網球被學生放在椅子面和課桌腿上削成薄片），但是很純樸。

When Britain began transforming itself this way in the 1990s, it was celebrated as an overdue do-over for a shopworn state.

當英國上世紀90年代開始按這種方式進行改革時，被外界贊以是對一個古老國家姍姍來遲的“重新加工”。

Patriotic turns of phrase get shopworn fast.

愛國的短語變成shopworn快。