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threadbare adj.磨破的；陈腐的 (1) 地毯已磨得相当破旧了。(2) 他对这个问题一再发言已使它成为陈词滥调。 Furniture, clothing or a rug is threadbare if the fabric is thin and worn through. If your father tells the same jokes over and over again, you might accuse him of having a threadbare sense of humor. A friend who chooses to live a threadbare lifestyle doesn't have a lot of things, and what they do have is not in the best of shape. When you see this word, picture your childhood stuffed animal with the fur rubbed thin from too much cuddling.

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英 ['θredbeə(r)] 美 ['θredber] (1) The carpets had worn rather threadbare.(2) He had thrummed upon this topic till it is threadbare. Those jeans you wear every day that have holes in the knees and thin patches in the rear? They're threadbare. Threadbare means thin from overuse. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](衣服、地毯等)破旧的，磨薄的，陈旧的 Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much. 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。2[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](活动、想法、论点)无力的，不充分的，陈旧乏味的 If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting. ...the government's threadbare domestic policies.政府陈腐的国内政策

英语单词	threadbare
英美音标	英 ['θredbeə(r)] 美 ['θredber]
中文释义	adj.磨破的；陈腐的
英语例句	(1) The carpets had worn rather threadbare. (2) He had thrummed upon this topic till it is threadbare.
中文例句	(1) 地毯已磨得相当破旧了。 (2) 他对这个问题一再发言已使它成为陈词滥调。
vocabulary简明	Those jeans you wear every day that have holes in the knees and thin patches in the rear? They're threadbare. Threadbare means thin from overuse.
vocabulary扩展	Furniture, clothing or a rug is threadbare if the fabric is thin and worn through. If your father tells the same jokes over and over again, you might accuse him of having a threadbare sense of humor. A friend who chooses to live a threadbare lifestyle doesn't have a lot of things, and what they do have is not in the best of shape. When you see this word, picture your childhood stuffed animal with the fur rubbed thin from too much cuddling.
柯林斯解释	1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](衣服、地毯等)破旧的，磨薄的，陈旧的 Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much. 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。 2 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](活动、想法、论点)无力的，不充分的，陈旧乏味的 If you describe an activity, an idea, or an argument as threadbare, you mean that it is very weak, or inadequate, or old and no longer interesting. ...the government's threadbare domestic policies. 政府陈腐的国内政策

Threadbare Thin Worn Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词 英 θredbeə(R)] 美 θredber

Threadbare Thin Worn Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词英 θredbeə(R)] 美 θredber