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。
His Cannons bedspread is a bit threadbare;
他的火炮队床单有些旧了；
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。
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。
Given the unfolding catastrophe on Britain’s doorstep, it is likely to look threadbare.
在英国家门口的台阶上就把逐渐现形的经济危机拦住，这种办法看起来真够俗套的。
Don't buy any clothes at all, neglecting to replace items that are torn, stain or threadbare.
一件衣服都不买，忽略自己应该换掉那些已经撕破、磨损以及沾染上污渍的衣服的事实。
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。
And I wear a small collection of clothes very intensely. When they get threadbare, I buy new stuff.
我会非常集中地穿几件衣服，等它们都破旧不堪了，我才添置新装。
The threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside Hyderabad is only one example.
作者在海德拉巴城外乡村看到的捉襟见肘小店就是一个例子。
The pivotal technologic problems such as cleavage, strength decline, tree bark and threadbare were solved.
解决了披裂、强力下降、树皮皱、露白等关键技术难点。
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。
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。
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。
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。
Our logon(AuthBundle) is relatively threadbare because OmniFind is a stateless repository that does not support a continuous session.
logon(AuthBundle)是无线程的，因为OmniFind 是无状态存储库，不支持连续会话。
But the West generally, with its foxy ladies and 20th century Hollywood conglomerates, can offer only relatively threadbare comparisons.
但是在当今的西方，经过狡猾妇人跟20世纪好莱坞的混合加工，只能做相近的对比了。
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。
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。
Showing great reserves of determination, Mervyn Matthews spent the next five years running a threadbare but relentless campaign to get Lyudmila to Britain.
为使恋人能够来到英国，茂文•马修斯表现出了巨大的决心，进行了五年微不足道但却不屈不挠的抗争。
Admittedly, all this amounts to a better record than many other countries can show, but it makes British aspirations to "global leadership" look a touch threadbare.
不可否认，所有这些举措都将使英国拥有一份较其他国家更为出色的成绩单，但它不足以是英国成为全球领导的雄心成为现实。
The thought of Leland and Jane Stanford, by this time quite wealthy, arriving at Harvard in a homespun threadbare suit and faded gingham dress is amusing, but highly inaccurate.
认为当时颇为富有的斯坦福夫妇衣着朴素的拜访哈佛大学的观点很有趣，但却不大可能。
After all, while Harry envies Ron his large, loving family, Ron has to contend with his middle-child syndrome, and must contrast his own threadbare lifestyle with Harry's wealth.
当Harry羡慕罗恩友爱的大家庭时，罗恩不仅需要对抗他的middle childsyndrome（没有找到对应的术语翻译，指在家中排序在中间的孩子所特有的心理问题），还必须用自己的寒酸去对比Harry的富有。
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。
The New Star philosophy of rewarding managers with bonuses in shares, not cash, looks threadbare now that the shares will be both heavily diluted and delisted from the London Stock Exchange.
新星用股份而非现金来奖励其基金经理的哲学现在则已被视为破履，因为公司股份一方面被严重稀释，而另一方面又被伦敦交易所除牌。
And so on a Wednesday evening, I went to Mr. Feinberg's office, which is almost threadbare compared with most of his peers' temples of wood-paneled walls and platinum-plated bathroom fixtures.
所以在某个周三的晚上，我来到费伯格先生看起来有点寒酸的办公室，而与他身份相同的人都拥有实木墙面、镀白金洗手间的豪华办公室。
With a United squad looking suddenly threadbare, and a vintage manager due for retirement himself before too long, United supporters cannot help but see parallels between Stretford and Florida.
看到远在佛罗里达的兄弟球队沦落到如此落魄地步，曼联的支持者也顿生寒意：球队阵容好像突然间变得不整起来，弗爵爷也快到了退休的年纪了，以后在哪去找这么好的教练去？
With a United squad looking suddenly threadbare, and a vintage manager due for retirement himself before too long, United supporters cannot help but see parallels between Stretford and Florida.
看到远在佛罗里达的兄弟球队沦落到如此落魄地步，曼联的支持者也顿生寒意：球队阵容好像突然间变得不整起来，弗爵爷也快到了退休的年纪了，以后在哪去找这么好的教练去？
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