shopworn

1 The old coat has shopworn in the closet for years.

这件旧外套在橱中闲放已好几年了。

2 “Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible” takes a shopworn idea — that both deliberately and unintentionally unfinished art works often have extraordinary expressive power — and pursues it through more than 500 years of art.

3 But in the role of a professional beauty who discovers his youth has evaporated, Mr. Numrich doesn’t look even remotely shopworn.

4 The rhetoric of unity and healing was shopworn, the old references to Abraham Lincoln and Martin Luther King Jr. were threadbare.

5 The plot and characters of Warrior are so corny and shopworn that the film should really come with a health warning that it's way past its sell-by date.

6 A lot of these samples are of Indian and Chinese instruments – shopworn stand-ins for "the exotic" that he makes sound genuinely strange by half-breaking them.

7 At its very end, "Heartbeats" becomes more endearing as it tries to salvage some shopworn but nevertheless true things about love and life.

8 Metaphors, new or shopworn, work when they bring things into sharper focus.

9 “Speed Trap Town” brings heartbreaking specificity to the shopworn trope of the highway’s salvation.

10 Up to a certain point, the show feels like another shopworn commentary on the emptiness of Hollywood, produced by and for underemployed artists, comedy writers and voice actors.

11 Take a shopworn, simplistic concept, apply it in an unexpected way, and what do you get?

12 Relationships unfold with a bright, glossy and antiseptic sentimentality in Park Hyun-gene’s “Like for Likes,” which brings abundant social media usage to shopworn rom-com contrivances.

13 This is a novel so rivetingly plotted and beautifully written that you forget its shopworn premise.

14 “Mr. Isozaki’s is an architecture that thrusts aside the shopworn debate between modernism and postmodernism, for it is both modern and postmodern,” the critic Paul Goldberger wrote in The Times in 1986.

15 An exhilarating fusion of high and low, the movie takes a shopworn premise — townsfolk facing a violent threat — and bats it around until it all goes ka-boom.

16 But the scene also serves as a worrisome reminder that the show is trafficking in some fairly shopworn plot points.

17 To stave off the shopworn and infuse the project with as much authenticity as possible, lead producers Tom Hulce and Ira Pittelman, of “Spring Awakening” and “American Idiot,” among others, recruited Morisseau.

18 It’s a contemporary if shopworn story of good and evil, decency versus corruption and one man fighting the machine when topsy-turvy and not.

19 Trouble is, the more time we spend with these people, the more shopworn the writing becomes.

20 None of the characters here are truly changed, not at the deepest level, which gives the book something of a shopworn quality.

1 老掉牙的

hoary cornball

2 滞销的

slow-moving

3 用旧

worn-out hackney used-up outworn clapped-out wear overwear chewed up

4 用旧的

worn-out hackney used-up outworn clapped-out chewed up

5 陈旧的

ricky-ticky ricky-tick old cold tired vintage hack canned ready-made antiquated Corny arthritic crusted hoary gray-haired fusty superannuated moth-eaten rinky-dink worm-eaten untogether hardworked outdated obsolete stale rusty archaic threadbare time worn

6 不新鲜的

cold stale

7 陈腐的

hoked-up old hack conventional fossil pedestrian canned obsolete beaten commonplace stale antiquated musty banal trite moldy well-worn worn-out stereotyped threadbare hoary hackneyed hackney folky copybook hoar hokey fusty outworn bewhiskered warmed-over timeworn bromidic twice-told stock tired trivial cliche corny mossy crusted mildewed played-out rinky-dink platitudinous flyblown worm-eaten clichéd old hat

8 在商店摆放旧了的

shop-soiled

9 陈腐

hoked-up old hack conventional fossil pedestrian canned obsolete beaten commonplace stale antiquated musty banal trite moldy well-worn worn-out stereotyped threadbare hoary hackneyed hackney folky copybook hoar hokey fusty outworn bewhiskered warmed-over timeworn bromidic platitude staleness obsoletism twice-told stock tired trivial cliche corny mossy crusted mildewed played-out rinky-dink platitudinous flyblown worm-eaten clichéd tritely banality bathos triteness banalize take the bloom off old hat

10 滞销

slow-moving stick sales resistance

11 陈旧

ricky-ticky ricky-tick old cold tired vintage hack canned ready-made antiquated Corny arthritic crusted hoary gray-haired fusty superannuated moth-eaten rinky-dink worm-eaten untogether hardworked obsolescence obsoletism outdated obsolete stale rusty archaic threadbare time worn