| 词汇 | worn-out |
| 释义 | worn out adjective uk /ˌwɔːn ˈaʊt/ us /ˌwɔːrn ˈaʊt/ worn outadjective (USED)Something that is worn out can no longer be used because it is so old or because it has been damaged by continued use: 不能再用的；耗尽的 My jeans are almost worn out because I've worn them so much.因为穿太多次，我的牛仔裤几乎要破了。 [ before noun ]worn-out clothes/carpet/equipment破旧的衣物／地毯／设备 In bad condition battered battle-scarred be on the skidsidiom beat someone up blasted have seen better daysidiom hors de combat impaired in decay in good, bad, etc. repairidiom ruined run someone/something down sad scarred scuffed the worse for wearidiom well thumbed well worn worm-eaten worse worn outadjective (TIRED)extremely tired: 极度疲惫的，精疲力竭的 I've been working all night and I'm worn out.我整晚都在工作，已经筋疲力尽了。 in need of sleep or rest tiredI'm so tired, I need a nap. exhaustedI'm too exhausted to take the dog for a walk. worn outI was completely worn out. burned outHe was completely burned out after a full week of performances. drainedI'd worked a twelve-hour day and was absolutely drained. wiped outI've been up since 4 a.m. and am just wiped out. Tired and making tired all in anti-fatigue at your worstidiom be dead on your feetidiom be fit/ready to dropidiom finish something off fit to dropidiom fragile frazzled gassed haggard knackered shell-shocked sleep deprivation sleep-deprived sleepily sleepiness sleepy strung out zonked worn out | American Dictionaryworn out adjective (alsoworn-out)us/ˈwɔrn ˈaʊt, woʊrn/ worn outadjective (NOT USABLE)no longer usable because of too much use: The city is looking for a place to dump its worn-out equipment. worn outadjective (EXTREMELY TIRED)extremely tired: They were worn out after their long walk. Examples of worn outworn out We talk loosely about people being 'wornout' by a lifetime of labour, but this process is far from being understood. The rendering on the walls is flaking off, the weary roofbeams are buckling under the weight of the roofs, the wooden bridges are wornout. A man dressed in a secondhand overcoat, in a used and wornout suit, a man whose face no longer had any human characteristics. The report called for a new series of short, rotating health warnings to replace the existing ' ' wornout ' ' messages. Parental resources are wornout while fulfilling the demands of the rehabilitation process. American exceptionalism may have wornout its welcome, but it may be time to reconsider the value of synthesis. The ice gets wornout from underneath from the currents. My arms were cracking, and my back was wornout. The physical me is the envelope in which the letter is, and the envelope gets wornout. They were wornout by years of fighting and frustrated by the indecisiveness of the fitful campaigns. By the age of 55 years, she had wornout the joints in her shoulders and arms and received a disability pension. He is in his early forties but looks tired and wornout. Of course, she came through it physically unharmed, albeit wornout by all the emotional trauma. But, responding that one is not at all tired, used up, wornout or exhausted, is not necessarily equivalent to feeling energetic all the time. When urban icons get wornout, do they just fade away? 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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