threadbare ['θredbɛə]
参考词典中threadbare的常规释义：
基本释义
- a. 毛绒已磨掉而露线的
参考例句
- Threadbare or tattered clothing.
破旧衣服穿旧的或破了的衣服
- Threadbare or tattered clothing.
英英解释
2个形容词解释
- repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
[同] commonplace, hackneyed, banal, old-hat, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite, well-worn
[例]- 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'
- having the nap worn away so that the threads show through
[例]- threadbare rugs
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