There were no sheets but the blanket they lay on was threadbare and smooth and the size and springiness of the bed astonished both of them .

那床上没有床单，可身下的毛毯早 磨 得光 溜溜，床也是又大又松软，这倒叫他们挺好奇。

Pride may lurk under a threadbare cloak .

骄傲可能会潜藏在穿 旧的斗篷下。

He wore his coat threadbare .

他把外套 都 穿破了。

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。

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。

Or on a smaller scale you may want to take inventory of your linens to see if you need to replenish some that have become threadbare .

或者么，你可能会整理一份家织用品的清单来看看哪些是已经 旧了需要更新换代的。

Nearly naked both males and females wore ill-fitting shorts or old-fashioned knickerbockers and three or four had donned threadbare jerseys .

他们几乎是光着身子，无论男女都穿不合身的短裤或老式的灯笼裤，有三四个穿着 破旧的运动衫。

A lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing .

穿着 破旧 不堪或脏衣服而缺乏优雅。

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。

A frayed or threadbare spot as on fabric . a tool or machine used for wearing down or smoothing or polishing .

磨损处（ 如织物上的）磨散或磨光 绒毛 之处用来磨平打磨或抛光的工具或机器。

The stairs opened onto a sitting room with a threadbare carpet and a small fireplace above which hung a single large oil painting of a blonde girl who gazed out at the room with a kind of vacant sweetness .

楼梯顶上是客厅，铺着 破旧的地毯，还有个小小的壁炉，壁炉上方挂着一幅很大的油画，画上是一个金发的姑娘茫然而温柔地望着屋内。

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。

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。

Becky cried and Tom tried to think of some way of comforting her but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use and sounded like sarcasms .

贝基哭起来，汤姆想另换话题来安慰她，可是她已不止一次听到他这样鼓励，现在 这些鼓励的话听起来 倒像是在挖苦她。

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 shabby threadbare dress in its best days couldn 't have been labeled a gown . there was no train no veil .

那身破旧 褴褛的衣服，在新的时候也不能算是“礼服”。即没有拖裙，也没有面纱。

The carpets had worn rather threadbare .

地毯已磨得相当 破旧了。

But with much of this wealth tied up in horrific stock markets tycoons are a looking a little more threadbare .

然而，由于大部分财富绑牢在可怕的股票市场，巨富们的外表看起来没那么 光鲜了。

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 Entrance Hall is a large room with peeling wallpaper threadbare carpet gas lamps and a serpent-shaped cobwebby candleabra .

一楼门廊是一个巨大的房间，墙上贴着剥落的墙纸， 破旧的地毯，煤气灯和一个大蛇形状的蛛网状枝形吊灯和枝形烛台。

But Mr Park was more convincing in portraying himself as the capital 's first welfare mayor in a country with only threadbare social-safety nets .

但朴先生的立场更令人折服，他把自己描绘成了这个社保陈旧的国家中 前无古人的“民生市长”。

The textile sector is a huge employer with threadbare margins that have been worn away by currency appreciation and rising input costs .

纺织行业提供了大量的就业 机会，而 它的利润却被人民币升值及日益上涨的投入成本所 蚕食。

And blue is the colour of the jeans area where the most unusual fabrications include broken threadbare and jacquard jeans coated textures and stretch weave effects .

提花，涂层和弹性面料上，制造 磨破，同时也被 广泛 地 用于牛仔服装。

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。

Even the new excuses created by technology are starting to look threadbare .

即便是技术创造出的新借口也开始显得 老套。

She produced the old threadbare excuses & the alarm didn 't go off the train was late etc.

她 说着 老一套的借口&闹钟没响，火车晚点等等。

My angel was sewing the ragged pieces of cloth together threadbare and empty like binding air .

我的天使把每一块破烂的布都缝在一起， 磨破 烂了的洞像结冰的空气。

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。