shopworn
常见例句
- 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。 - 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。 - Even more impressive, GM accomplished such robust sales without deep discounts or shopworn gimmicks like volume sales to daily rental fleets.
更让人印象深刻的是,通用斩获如此可观的销量不是靠大幅打折或采用那些老套的花招,比如批量销售给短期租车公司之类。 - Incredibly, none other than Russian President Boris Yeltsin has recently trotted out this rather shopworn bogeyman.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center for Security Policy Testing, Testing: Is The Clinton Administration Determined To Gut The US Nuclear Deterrent? - That might sound a little shopworn by now--what chief executive doesn't say that?
FORBES: Desktop battle plan - Shalikashvili's shopworn arguments that the CTBT has to be ratified by the Senate in order to slow the pace of global nuclear proliferation.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy 返回 shopworn