shopworn

权威英汉双解

a shopworn argument(= that is no longer new or useful)

陈旧的论点

— see alsoshop-soiled

英汉释义

• na.

  1.店里摆旧的;滞销的;陈旧的

英英释义

• adj.

  1.if clothes or other goods in a store are shopworn, they look slightly damaged or dirty, especially because they have been used in a display

  2.used for describing ideas or language that are not new, original, or interesting

英汉例句

• 1.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。

• 2.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。

• 3.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。

• 4.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”。

• 5.Patriotic turns of phrase get shopworn fast.

  爱国的短语变成shopworn快。