shopworn

单词shopworn

基本解释

adj.: 在商店摆放旧了的
网络: 陈旧的；滞销的；过时的

权威解释

• 在商店摆放旧了的:

  dirty or not in perfect condition because they have been in a shop/store for a long time

英汉解释

• 店里摆旧的;滞销的;陈旧的

• 陈列过时的

• 不合时宜的

例句

• 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。

• 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。

• 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。

• 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”。

• Patriotic turns of phrase get shopworn fast.

  爱国的短语变成shopworn快。