threadbare的例句大全

Exiled in Spain at a threadbare and tiny court, the young Otto was schooled for the empty throne: he was fluent in Croatian, English, French, German, Hungarian and Spanish.

他们一家被一个又旧又小的西班牙法庭宣判驱逐出境。那会儿小奥托还被教育着要成为帝国继承人，他能讲一口流利的克罗地亚语、英语、法语、德语、匈牙利语和西班牙语。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

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。

showing great reserves of determination, mervyn matthews spent the next five years running a threadbare but relentless campaign to get lyudmila to britain.

为使恋人能够来到英国，茂文•马修斯表现出了巨大的决心，进行了五年微不足道但却不屈不挠的抗争。

even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of romanians.

当令人生畏的意大利警察，在推土机的掩护下，扫荡罗马尼亚移民居住的破旧棚屋时，那个附件看上去甚至有些陈腐不堪。

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 carpets had worn rather threadbare.

地毯已磨得相当破旧了.

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.

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 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.

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 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.

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.

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.