threadbare

He wore his coat threadbare.

他把外套都穿破了.

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。

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.

Pride may lurk under a threadbare not cloak.

骄傲估计披著老一套的外衣呈现.

They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.

她们发觉曼丽还象以往一样，在埋头研究和声学以及人性的问题，她拿出了一些新的札记给她们欣赏，又发表一些对旧道德的新见解给她们听。

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.

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.

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。

...the government's threadbare domestic policies.

政府陈腐的国内政策

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.

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.

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。

China's record as a citizen of the world is threadbare.

中国作为世界一员的历史极度乏善可陈.

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.

Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak.

骄傲可能会潜藏在穿旧的斗篷下.

The coat is worn threadbare.

这件外衣已经穿旧了.

The deposit remains uniform State to prevent imprinted threadbare.

使不朱层保留平均状况,制止痕迹发虚、不藏底.

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。

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。

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.

a threadbare carpet

磨薄了的地毯

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。

Pride may lurk a threadbare cloak.

骄傲可能披著老一套的外套出现.

Suddenly he felt something inside the lining of the threadbare jacket.

突然,他在破旧的外套夹层里感觉到了什么东西.

Many remained until their clothing became threadbare but had no jewels to sew in the seams.

很多人留在中国直到衣衫褴褛,但还是没有任何珠宝可以藏在衣缝里.

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。

Pride may lurk under threadbare cloak.

骄傲可能会躲藏在穿旧的斗篷下.

The carpets had worn rather threadbare.

地毯已磨得相当破旧了.

They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.

他们只能把简陋的乡间圣衣库供他使用，那里只有几件破旧的、装着假金线的锦缎祭服。

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。