well-worn的意思|well-worn的解释-里氏词典

well-worn ['wɛl'worn]

a. 穿戴破旧的, 用旧了的, 陈腐的

well-worn

[ adj ]

showing signs of much wear or use

<adj.all>

repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse

<adj.all>

bromidic sermons

his remarks were trite and commonplace

hackneyed phrases

a stock answer

repeating threadbare jokes

parroting some timeworn axiom

the trite metaphor `hard as nails'

Trebek, relaxing in the living room of his hillside bachelor home, is wearing a pair of well-worn blue jeans and an old blue jacket he got for participating in the Bill Cosby celebrity tennis tournament in 1975.
One of the richest is William Angle, a 66-year-old physician who lives in a well-worn wood-frame house off a pot-holed road, reads electro-cardiograms at a local hospital seven days a week and hasn't had a vacation in five years.
"I guess this is about what we expected at this point," said Steve Katsanos, the RTC's chief communications officer, who has trod a well-worn path between his old FDIC office and his new RTC desk.
And there was good news from Calluna: shares in the disk drive manufacturer leapt 42 per cent on Monday, its first day of trading. Schroders, the adviser to New Look, trotted out the well-worn 'adverse market conditions' excuse.
Since the departure of co-founder Steven Jobs four years ago, the company has been criticized for introducing products that don't break new ground, but rely instead on well-worn technology.
In North Korea, the propaganda line still contains heavy doses of "anti-imperialism" and other, well-worn revolutionary themes.
Bates faced a 10.3-mile hike up a well-worn but extremely steep path to the summit.
While the suburbs are booming with shopping centers and housing developments, Atlantic City still has no movie theater that isn't pornographic and only one well-worn supermarket.
Rene Acuna is starving himself to protest a life prison sentence, but he's on a well-worn road that state corrections officials say will end in court-ordered force feeding.
The servants cater to Phoebe, a sad kid who spends much of her time playing with her well-worn stuffed animals and listening to her recordings of the legend of Joan.
Ten dancers (looking like sci-fi laboratory assistants in overalls that reveal pallid inner legs and arms) tread and re-tread their well-worn paths.
On a slanted and well-worn drawing table perched in front of the barber chair, Hirschfeld opens a large sketch book.
They were dressed in casual, well-worn clothing.
On Thursday, families sat together on well-worn benches waiting to be called into the cramped counseling rooms.

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