Becky cried , and tom tried to think of some way of comforting her , but all his encouragements were grown threadbare with use , and sounded like sarcasms 贝基哭起来,汤姆想另换话题来安慰她,可是她已不止一次听到他这样鼓励,现在这些鼓励的话听起来倒像是在挖苦她。
This picture brought such an agony of pleasurable suffering that he worked it over and over again in his mind and set it up in new and varied lights , till he wore it threadbare 这种想象给他带来一种苦中有甜的感受,于是,他在脑海里一遍又一遍地重复着这种幻想,反复地多角度地想象着,直到索然无味为止。
I have come to the conclusion that there does seem rather a want of commonsense in these threadbare old propositions ; how i could have been so fired by poor parson clare s enthusiasm , and have gone so madly to work , transcending even him , i cannot make out 我通过思考得出结论:过去那些陈词滥调的确违背常理我怎么会被可怜的克莱尔牧师的热心鼓动起来呢?我怎么会疯狂地去讲道,甚至还超过了他的热情呢?我真是弄不明白了!
She would let bess have her room , but the mattress was so lumpy , the carpet so worn , the curtains so threadbare that lottie ' s conscience pricked her . she supposed she would have to redo that room , too , and went about doing it with an eagerness that she mistook for haste 把她自己的卧室给碧丝住好了。但是床垫垮得太厉害,地毯太破旧,窗帘太褴褛,珞蒂有些于心不安。她想她的卧房也该翻修一下,于是便动手去做,其实是干劲十足,她却自以为是仓促行事。