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tattered ['tætɚd]

a. 破烂的, 褴褛的

tattered

[ adj ]

worn to shreds; or wearing torn or ragged clothing

<adj.all>

a man in a tattered shirt

the tattered flag

tied up in tattered brown paper

a tattered barefoot boy

a tatterdemalion prince

ruined or disrupted

<adj.all>

our shattered dreams of peace and prosperity

a tattered remnant of its former strength

my torn and tattered past

Tatter \Tat"ter\, v. t. [p. p. {Tattered}.]
To rend or tear into rags; -- used chiefly in the past
participle as an adjective.

Where waved the tattered ensigns of Ragfair. --Pope.

Four men, in revealingly tattered garb, entwined themselves.
The tattered remains of the ship's flag, clearly visible on the stern Saturday, were lost in the smoke and flames Sunday.
One girl was seen reading a tattered novel hidden by her notebook.
Old Wang, who wears a tattered gray suit jacket over blue sweat pants, will challenge him with a "Shanghai 7-Bao."
The obsolete East German flag hanging below it was tattered by night's end.
"Having the most tattered economy and being battered by a huge foreign-debt burden, Poland's problem will be to ensure sheer survival," the report said.
It's a miserable life." Among her meager possessions was a tattered blue book on legal rights of the homeless printed by the Legal Aid Society.
People lie on the floors, and barefoot women in tattered saris flail the hallways with twig brooms that stir up dust without sweeping it away.
A SHARP and unexpected increase in US unemployment has thrown new gloom onto President George Bush's already tattered re-election campaign.
But these yesterday were often poorly equipped to cope. Yesterday, and for the first time in a long time, this anger poured on to Beirut's tattered streets.
In Chengdu, a passing peasant in tattered clothes reaches in the window of a state-owned eatery to beg for scraps.
Several children in tattered rags chased each other.
Now the 43-year-old Tunisian immigrant (whose name is pronounced Gez) is trying to represent himself in the Chapter 11 bankruptcy proceedings of his tattered jeans empire.
Most city officials would agree that the program brought a new sense of excitement to Miami's tattered image, but some fear the program's obsession with drug smugglers and violent crime may have scared off tourists and outsiders.
Feeble-looking men came to the twin-engine Cessna in ragged shorts and tattered remnants of flowing robes.
That may not go very far in fixing already tattered relations with the Allied Pilots Association.
At a Cincinnati Fried Chicken, store manager Levi King points to a tattered flier hanging next to his cash register.
A book vendor asked for an up-to-date city guidebook told a Western reporter, "There has been nothing like that since the revolution." The merchant then held up a tattered guidebook dating back before the Islamic revolution.
Her husband, Jose, spent his last night in Guatemala hanging tattered laundry and trying to patch together battered suitcases. He tried to fight off despair as he faced raising two babies alone in a strange land.
He clings to the tattered remnants of hope, but it is hope built on pride rather than reason.
Inmates of Her Majesty's prisons, who spend a lot of time thinking about birds, have been requesting tapes and the news desk of the East End Independent newspaper in Glasgow plays it all the time to calm tattered nerves.
While few of the brokerages that halted their program trading would acknowledge that index arbitrage was responsible, they said they thought their actions might help restore tattered public confidence in the market.
"I like Bush simply because he is the president of the United States," said Fernando, pulling a tattered document from his pocket.
And where are the people?, you wonder, mesmerized by landscapes devoid of virtually everything but the occasional, empty-looking house or a clothesline with some tattered overalls.
In contrast to cities like New York, Boston and Houston, where many drivers look so shabby that regulators have instituted dress codes banning T-shirts and tattered shorts, Japanese cabbies have always taken pride in their dress.
He traveled to Zaire in March 1987 to discuss Zaire's tattered relations with the IMF, helping to repair ties.
It is time for this to end." Students huddled closely under tattered umbrellas as the wind and rain howled about them.
They would prefer for the government to concentrate on improving the tattered Iranian economy.
Welty, 80, says her favorite face is that of a middle-age woman standing with hands at her side in a tattered sweater.
MILLER LEAVES an OMB with tattered credibility and a demoralized staff.

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