| 词汇 | castoff |
| 释义 | castoff noun[ C ] us/ˈkæstˌɔf/ something, esp. a piece of clothing, that you no longer want and give away: His family was poor, and he always wore castoffs. Examples of castoffcastoff In each costume, at least one of these castoff materials has been accumulated in considerable numbers as the basis of the garment. From Los Angeles Times Castoff metal exists on the extreme opposite end of those spectrums. From Los Angeles Times Some rooms are decorated with bits of castoff color: shipping crates stickers and mobile phone ads. From New York Daily News There was something so perfectly realized about that moment -- this making use of castoff things. From NPR In this way it's their castoff and salvaged goods that are animated, celebrated and sanctified, rather than the particular person wearing them. From Los Angeles Times Castoff clothing dropped off in parking lot donation bins doesn't always end up with charities devoted to helping the poor. From USA TODAY A decade ago it was outfitted with a stained carpet, a tattered poster of a chicken, and castoff furniture. From NPR And just like secondhand clothing, castoff food exports can hurt local economies. From Foreign Policy He arrived in 2008 as a college basketball castoff. From MLive.com It was a castoff my landlady was throwing out. From Dallas Morning News I rely on a technological castoff to search through other people's castoff merchandise. From Slate Magazine The philanthropist too often surrounds mankind with the remembrance of his own castoff griefs as an atmosphere, and calls it sympathy. From Project Gutenberg The child pointed to what appeared to be some ragged, castoff clothes left in the hole by the late occupant. From Project Gutenberg 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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