moth-eaten
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˈmɒθˌiː.tən]
- 美式音标 [ˈmɑːθˌiː.t̬ən]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- adj.虫蛀的;破旧的;过时的
英汉例句
- Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten.
你们的财产腐烂了,你们的衣服被蛀虫吃了。 - Amid the multitudes in sleek evening garb, the molting birds had the look of disheveled bounders or tipplers in moth-eaten raccoon coats.
在大量有光泽的晚礼服中,脱毛企鹅看起来就像穿着被虫蛀的浣熊皮外套的邋遢莽汉或者醉鬼。 - The sweater is moth-eaten.
毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了。
《新英汉大辞典》 - Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.
狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的,孤独地走了,我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角,眼望前方,然后转身消失了。
耶鲁公开课 - 1945年后的美国小说课程节选 - Follow that line, and independence sounds like a progressive act to promote friendship between the yeomen of England and the brave hearts of Scotland, liberating two ancient cultures from the moth-eaten baggage of imperialist, embittered Britishness.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot - Sir Richard, arguably the second most powerful man in Britain, retains old-school civil-service values: devoted to its ethos, uninterested in partisan politics, and hooked on the traditional though moth-eaten doctrine of the accountability of civil servants through ministers to Parliament.
ECONOMIST: Tony Blair’s mighty servant - Though conservation is the trust's overriding goal, members seem likely to approve Mr Reid's plan to demolish this moth-eaten structure and replace it with something new—merging the board and council into a single elected 15-member body reporting annually to members.
ECONOMIST: National Trust for Scotland: Demolish and preserve
双语例句
原声例句
权威例句
英英字典
- If clothing or furniture is moth-eaten, it looks old and has holes in it.
- Moth-eaten clothes look very old and have holes in them.
- If you describe something as moth-eaten, you mean that it seems unattractive or useless because it is old or has been used too much.
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专业释义
- 虫蛀了的