| 词汇 | stale |
| 释义 | stale adjective uk /steɪl/ us /steɪl/ C1 no longer new or fresh, usually as a result of being kept for too long: （通常指因久放）不新鲜的，走味的 The bread/biscuits/cake had gone stale.面包／饼干／蛋糕已经不新鲜了。 The morning after the party, their apartment smelled of stale cigarette smoke.聚会后的次日早上，他们的公寓里有一股污浊的烟味儿。 not fresh and new; boring because too familiar: 过时的，老套的，没有新意的 stale jokes/news老掉牙的笑话／过时的新闻 used to describe someone who has lost interest in what they are doing because of being bored or working too hard: （对所做之事）厌倦的，腻烦的 They had been working together for over five years and they had both become a little stale.他们两个已经在一起共事5年多了，彼此都有一点儿厌倦。 A foul smell of stale beer permeated the whole building.整座楼都散发着变质啤酒的臭味。 The room was filled with the reek of stale beer and cigarettes. Have you got any stale cheese that I can bait the mousetrap with? In the cathedral vaults the air was dank and stale.大教堂的地窖里空气湿冷并带有霉味。 Her breath was a little stale. Not pleasant to eat or drink (as) tough as old bootsidiom acrid bitter bitterness bland chewy dishwater insipidly insipidness like dishwateridiom mouldy overripe pungent staleness stick to someone's ribsidiom stodginess stodgy swill unripe watery You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Tedious and uninspiring Plain and ordinary Related wordstaleness stale | American Dictionarystale adjective[ -er/-est only ] us/steɪl/ not fresh or new: stale bread Stale air smells very bad. I used to like that sitcom, but it’s getting kind of stale. Examples of stalestale In the second movement there is almost an excuse for blandness, in evoking an intimate but stale bedroom encounter. They are stale seedbeds allowing weeds to germinate and destroy them before the crop is planted. A stale seedbed is the tillage technique used to deplete the soil seed bank. He received us in rooms that were sparsely furnished and smelled strongly of stale pipe smoke. His intention was to avoid becoming stale due to repetition and also to acknowledge that television and stage repertoires require different musical approaches. What they read and hear sounds more like the truth than the stale sloganeering of the official media. The use of stale seedbeds allowing weeds to germinate and destroying them before the crop is planted is a successful technique. The exhaust of stale air will be assisted via the wind. Classifying something as being overused and stale does not immediately call to mind a distinctive linguistic category. Adjusting for stale prices reduced, but did not eliminate, the lead by futures prices; while restrictions on short selling shares were rejected as an explanation. He rejected stale prices as a cause, but found some support for arbitrage risk as an explanation of mispricing. By-products such as stale bread, fancy cakes, biscuits and waffles widely vary in their nutrient composition. Agreements have not withered and customs have not staled their infinite variety. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Perhaps that is because his mind is not staled by speaking upon it too often. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Bread stored in the refrigerator will have increased staling rates and should therefore be kept at room temperature. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. See all examples of stale These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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