ragged的意思|ragged的解释-里氏词典

ragged ['rægɪd]

a. 衣衫褴褛的, 参差不齐的, 不协调的, 粗糙的, 刺耳的

ragged

[ adj ]

being or dressed in clothes that are worn or torn

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clothes as ragged as a scarecrow's

a ragged tramp

worn out from stress or strain

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run ragged

having an irregular outline

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text set with ragged right margins

herded the class into a ragged line

Rag \Rag\ (r[a^]g), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Ragged} (r[a^]gd); p.
pr. & vb. n. {Ragging} (r[a^]g"g[i^]ng).]
To become tattered. [Obs.]

Ragged \Rag"ged\ (r[a^]g"g[e^]d), a. [From {Rag}, n.]
1. Rent or worn into tatters, or till the texture is broken;
as, a ragged coat; a ragged sail.

2. Broken with rough edges; having jags; uneven; rough;
jagged; as, ragged rocks.

3. Hence, harsh and disagreeable to the ear; dissonant. [R.]
``A ragged noise of mirth.'' --Herbert.

4. Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow.

5. Rough; shaggy; rugged.

What shepherd owns those ragged sheep? --Dryden.

{Ragged lady} (Bot.), the fennel flower ({Nigella
Damascena}).

{Ragged robin} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Lychnis}
({Lychnis Flos-cuculi}), cultivated for its handsome
flowers, which have the petals cut into narrow lobes.

{Ragged sailor} (Bot.), prince's feather ({Polygonum
orientale}).

{Ragged school}, a free school for poor children, where they
are taught and in part fed; -- a name given at first
because they came in their common clothing. [Eng.]
※ -- {Rag"ged*ly}, adv. -- {Rag"ged*ness}, n.

THE SECOND quarter of 1992 came to a somewhat ragged close on the stock market last night, with both stock index futures and equity prices moving erratically before ending on a confident note.
It's just a ragged clump of stunted spruce, but the Adak National Forest is nothing short of inspirational to foresters who dream of covering the desolate Aleutian Islands with trees.
With similar intensity, a few yards away from the ring, another man with a ragged T-shirt over his paunch alternately shadowboxes, jumps rope, and batters a punching bag.
Posses from Nevada and California pursued the Indians for 300 miles until Feb. 26, when they caught the ragged band sleeping and slaughtered four men, two women and two boys during a brief battle. One posse member was killed.
The safety net which insurance hangs under the risks of running a business is looking pretty ragged across much of the world.
"Now they've come up to the ragged edge," Mr. McCoy said.
But others knew Purdy as the high school drop-out described in one police report as dangerous and suffering from "mild mental retardation." Some saw him when he was down and out, with a scraggly beard and ragged clothes.
He is the ragged postilion the party meets on its arrival in Bath at the very end of this first hour, in which there wasn't a dull moment.
During a tour of slums at Santa Cruz, a tropical city that is Bolivia's second largest, packs of ragged youngsters shouting "Viva Banzer!" chased his open car through the unpaved streets.
He is wearing a ragged uniform, blue tennis shoes and a red headband reading, "Noboby is greater than God."
The town is wedged between California and Arizona, where the murky Colorado River oozes through sweltering, ragged hills on its way to Mexico.
Shoeless children in ragged clothes practice soccer with a tennis ball.
Dow Chemical, a major producer, is running its polystyrene plants at about 94% of capacity, "right at the ragged edge of what we can do," a spokesman says.
Deep in debt and scarred by scandal, this ragged riverfront town has witnessed political brawls and street shootouts.
The new federation so far has paid off, helping him to open weapons channels through Croatia. As commander, his first task was to root out criminals in his ragged armed forces.
Players and coaches complain of ragged officiating, and league officials have had to tinker with rules as the season has progressed.
"I was running myself pretty ragged through the 1970s with the Gonzo Band.
In a ragged neighborhood of Santo Domingo called Villa Duarte, the government is building a $15 million monument to itself and Christopher Columbus.
She reaches into a large purse, puts on pink lipstick, squeezes a flat toothpaste tube and brushes her teeth with a ragged brush.
Feeble-looking men came to the twin-engine Cessna in ragged shorts and tattered remnants of flowing robes.
That crossing was made after 2,400 troops in Washington's ragged Continental Army had suffered defeat after defeat.
And Napoleon, the embodiment of the grandeur of France, might have been enraged to see a ragged, toothless fire-eater cavorting in the shadow of his majestic Arc de Triomphe.
He wears ragged shorts, a quartz watch, a silver chain, five rings.
In villages above the cloud line, ragged children played in the dirt. We crested a last ridge and arrived in Constansa.
Seeing the SFO's ragged production of "Feuersnot" made you wonder how Strauss ever got another opera commission, but then came "Friedenstag" and Ms. Marc, and you gained new respect for the ability of genius to emerge from unexpected sources.
Inside, a couple of Mexican farmworkers played pool on a ragged blue-slate table.
President Bush today called homelessness "an affront to the American dream" and said he wants to help get "ragged and pathetic figures" off the streets of the nation's capital and urban America.
Mr. Rott's supporters say that the charges against him were trumped up and that his real offense is his ragged appearance and lack of permanent domicile.
The COG chorus was good as ever, if run slightly ragged in the quickest music. The nine soloists, however, made a team of real distinction - boasting a level of French diction unheard-of hereabouts even ten years ago.
Puglia in its time has been over-run by every ragged army that ever set bruising foot on Italy's larger foot.

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