The furniture was threadbare; he'd obviously picked it up for nothing.
那件家具破破烂烂；显然他没花什么钱就捡来了。
Standing on the threadbare carpet runner in the hall, my father blinks.
我爸爸站在通道里破旧的地毯上，眨着眼。
At some institutions, mounting losses are making the cushions of capital held for times of crisis look increasingly threadbare.
对某些机构来说，越积越多的损失使它们为市场危机准备的缓冲资本变得不堪一击。
Throughout my conversation with the deputy head, two small teenage girls in threadbare school uniforms sat watching from a brick wall by the playground.
在我与那位副校长的谈话过程中，两名小女孩穿着破旧的校服，坐在操场旁边的砖墙看着我们。
They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.
她们发觉曼丽还象以往一样，在埋头研究和声学以及人性的问题，她拿出了一些新的札记给她们欣赏，又发表一些对旧道德的新见解给她们听。
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。
Apart from a few old pieces of furniture and some threadbare clothes, that was all they had.
除了几件旧家具和旧衣服，他们一无所有。
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston.
一个穿着退色的带条纹棉布衣服的女士和她的丈夫，一个穿着粗糙的已经是磨破了的套装的男士，走出了波士顿的火车站。
A threadbare overcoat did little to keep the piercing wind off Patrick Ryan's back as he walked briskly to the pub at Ballyblagh.
刺骨的寒风直侵骨髓，帕特里克·赖安穿着一件根本无法抵御御寒的破旧大衣，疾步走向位于巴利·布拉的酒馆。
Taking in her threadbare clothes and thinning hair, Sadie frowned at her husband's mother, who looked much older than her fifty-six years.
看着她破旧的衣服和稀疏的头发，莎蒂皱眉看着她丈夫的母亲，她看起来比她56岁的年纪要大得多。
On his arrest, he had been careful to take with him a threadbare cap and a shabby sheepskin coat that he had saved from his years in exile.
他被捕时，他小心地带上自己以前的流放岁月中保留下来的一顶破皮帽和一件褴褛的羊皮大衣。
They could only place at his disposal a wretched village sacristy, with a few ancient chasubles of threadbare damask adorned with imitation lace.
他们只能把简陋的乡间圣衣库供他使用，那里只有几件破旧的、装着假金线的锦缎祭服。
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the President's outer office.
老妇人身穿褪色条纹棉衣，与穿着土布西服的丈夫在波士顿站下了火车，神情忐忑地走向校长的外间办公室。
A lady in a faded gingham dress and her husband, dressed in a homespun threadbare suit, stepped off the train in Boston, and walked timidly without an appointment into the President's outer office.
老妇人身穿褪色条纹棉衣，与穿着土布西服的丈夫在波士顿站下了火车，神情忐忑地走向校长的外间办公室。
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