sackcloth

1 The prince presented himself without guard, and without retinue: stopped in the second enclosure, he suffered himself to be stripped of his vestments and clothed in sackcloth.

2 Veganuary's Simon Winch thinks vegans are also shaking off an outmoded image of lentils and sackcloth.

3 The countries on the periphery donned their sackcloth out of necessity, tightening belts and buying less from abroad than they produced at home.

4 A striking number of free-market economists, worshippers at the feet of Milton Friedman and his Chicago colleagues, have lined up to don sackcloth and ashes and swear allegiance to the memory of Keynes.

5 Then David and the elders, covered with sackcloth, fell on their faces.

大卫和长老都身穿麻衣、面伏于地。

6 As eco fashion took some time to cast off its sackcloth image, there may be mixed feelings about the return of the eco-friendly dungaree.

7 Belichick began appearing before the news media in hoodies that were even more tattered than usual: the emperor now a penitent in sackcloth, muttering about past accomplishments and making uncharacteristic excuses.

8 The city article of the Nineveh Times, if such a paper existed, would probably have described “sackcloth firm, with a tendency to rise.”

9 But don’t panic. It’s not because the wheels somehow fell off the fashion bus, dooming us to a future of wearing sackcloth and ashes.

10 As this new Apple clip a year later indicates, sackcloth and ashes about U2 are still no longer his thing.

11 “The first year you wanted to look pretty for me, so you wore a nice dress to the fields. By the time we finished, it looked like the sackcloth the yuccas were in!”

12 Zoom calls with bosses now dressed in a sackcloth.

13 You can argue that refusing to apologize for or hide your body under a sackcloth is a feminist act.

你可以辩称，拒绝为自己的身体而道歉，或者不愿把自己的身体隐藏在粗布衣服之下可以是女权主义的行为。

14 Why not mandate Stitch Fix-style deliveries of sackcloth and ashes so that we may know that these people are truly humbled?

15 It wore a crude straw hat and a pair of sackcloth pants.

16 Photograph: Rex Christian Bale ended up as Batman, of course, but Nolan did use Murphy as the movie’s villain, Jonathan Crane, a spindly-limbed psychopath who dressed up in sackcloth and called himself the Scarecrow.

17 The antithesis of recession-appropriate sackcloth and ashes, prints exert a strong emotional pull.

18 Upping the ante, he called on Sinn Fein leaders to don “sackcloth and ashes,” an Old Testament ritual for demonstrating repentance and shame.

19 The Bible describes how “the sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the moon became as blood”.

20 It would be safe to amble down dark alleys or across parks, whether sporting a diamond-encrusted miniskirt and platinum noise-cancelling headphones or a sackcloth boiler suit and an air of high alert.

1 麻袋布

sacking

2 粗麻布

burlap crash sacking gunny dowlas hessian

3 麻布

toile

4 丧服

black weed mourning dismal sable