词为我用 - threadbare

词汇释义

threadbare  TEM8  GRE

UK  /ˈθred.beər/ US  /ˈθred.ber/

1. adj, Threadbare clothes, carpets, and other pieces of cloth look old, dull, and very thin, because they have been worn or used too much.(衣服、地毯等)破旧的，磨薄的，陈旧的

2. adj, 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.(活动、想法、论点)无力的，不充分的，陈旧乏味的

外刊例句

1. Even the Liberal Democrats have joined this rhetorical arms race, ripping apart their threadbare integrity.(The Guardian - Opinion)

2. Privately, some officials fear that an enhanced search-and-rescue operation in the Mediterranean will not just deplete threadbare budgets, but act as a "pull factor" that will encourage and facilitate record levels of migrant arrivals on to a continent that has made it clear it wants no more boat people.(The Guardian)

3. The colossal discrepancy between Hillary's rockstar aura and the increasingly threadbare humdrummery of the British political scene must be galling for our political leaders.(The Guardian)

4. It will help his rather threadbare credibility, but whether it will help on fairness is more of an open question.(The Guardian - Opinion)

5. Now, with patchy street-lighting, half-tarmaced streets and a smattering of abandoned homes, its most threadbare end suggests the more blighted parts of the American deep south.(The Guardian)

6. We have that authenticity of the age, the way that their cuffs and trousers were always a little threadbare".(The Guardian)

7. The government has since let it raise prices, but Petrobras still suffers political pressure, such as demands for big dividends, which help bolster Brazil's threadbare public finances.(The Economist)

8. On the edge of a dusty plateau near the northern city of Kunduz, Mohammad Khan and his family shelter in a threadbare tent.(The Economist)

9. The "assist" bit of operation Resolute Support, as the new mission is called, had looked threadbare.(The Economist)

10. Oxford and Cambridge, more than other British universities, still offer undergraduate students close attention from a designated don. The system is threadbare and arguably wasteful, especially as many students do little to prepare for their supervisions.(The Economist)

11. The first was the threadbare evidence from the prosecution.(The Economist)

12. The issue of trust is that much more pressing in emerging economies, whose threadbare legal systems and poor enforcement offer little assurance to investors.(The Economist)

13. If it doesn't, the rest of the official safety net is more threadbare than in 2008, when policymakers pulled out all the stops.(The Economist)

14. This is truly remarkable for a party with no MPs, a threadbare national organisation and, in Mr Farage, only one well-recognised politician.(The Economist)

词汇搭配

extremely, fairly, very threadbare | a little, slightly threadbare | threadbare carpet, cloth | threadbare activity, idea, arguement, evidence

词汇来源

late 14c., from thread (n.) + bare. The notion is of "having the nap worn off," leaving bare the threads.

近义词

dilapidated, grungy, mean, scruffy, seedy, shabby, sleazy, tatty, timeworn, frayed, ragged

反义词

fresh, new, novel, brand-new

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