shopworn

英汉解释

英英解释

例句

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

尽管这种隐喻可能已是陈腔滥调，但它们仍恰如其分地抓住了事情不可预知性和极端性的本质。

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

他人长得胖，鼻头和嘴巴部分显出一副不合时宜的可怜相。

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

约翰·C设施陈旧（学校的网球被学生放在椅子面和课桌腿上削成薄片），但是很纯朴。

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

当英国上世纪90年代开始按这种方式进行改革时，被外界赞以是对一个古老国家姗姗来迟的“重新加工”。

Patriotic turns of phrase get shopworn fast.

爱国的短语变成shopworn快。