moth-eaten

常见例句

Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten.
你们的财产腐烂了，你们的衣服被蛀虫吃了。
Amid the multitudes in sleek evening garb, the molting birds had the look of disheveled bounders or tipplers in moth-eaten raccoon coats.
在大量有光泽的晚礼服中，脱毛企鹅看起来就像穿着被虫蛀的浣熊皮外套的邋遢莽汉或者醉鬼。
The sweater is moth-eaten.
毛衣让蛀虫咬坏了。
《新英汉大辞典》

Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.
狄恩穿着一件被虫蛀过的破大衣,这是他特意带来防备东部寒冷气候的，孤独地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7号大街的转角，眼望前方，然后转身消失了。
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Follow that line, and independence sounds like a progressive act to promote friendship between the yeomen of England and the brave hearts of Scotland, liberating two ancient cultures from the moth-eaten baggage of imperialist, embittered Britishness.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
Sir Richard, arguably the second most powerful man in Britain, retains old-school civil-service values: devoted to its ethos, uninterested in partisan politics, and hooked on the traditional though moth-eaten doctrine of the accountability of civil servants through ministers to Parliament.
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Though conservation is the trust's overriding goal, members seem likely to approve Mr Reid's plan to demolish this moth-eaten structure and replace it with something new—merging the board and council into a single elected 15-member body reporting annually to members.
ECONOMIST: National Trust for Scotland: Demolish and preserve The