decrepit

IELTSGRE畅通词汇

英 [dɪ'krepɪt] 美[dɪ'krɛpɪt]

释义

adj. 衰老的；破旧的

英文词源

decrepit: decrepit: [15] The underlying meaning of decrepit is ‘cracked’. It comes from Latin dēcrepitus, an adjective formed (with the intensive prefix dē-) from the past participle of crepāre ‘creak, rattle, crack’ (ultimate source also of English crepitation, crevice, and probably craven).
decrepit (adj.): mid-15c., from Middle French décrépit (15c.), from Latin decrepitus "very old, infirm," from de- "down" (see de-) + *crepitus, past participle of crepare "to crack, break" (see raven).

双语例句

1. The infrastructure, from hotels to transport, is old and decrepit.: 从宾馆到交通，所有的基础设施都已陈旧失修。

3. The British music scene is nostalgic, decrepit and moribund.: 英国音乐呈现出感伤怀旧、暮气沉沉、行将就木的景象。

4. The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.: 该影片是在一所破旧不堪的警察局里拍摄的。

5. Then her heart sank. The decrepit animal would never pull the hill.: 可随即她的心又往下沉 ---- 这匹跛脚老马怎么爬得上去呀!

英英释意

1. worn and broken down by hard use;: "a creaky shack"; "a decrepit bus...its seats held together with friction tape"; "a flea-bitten sofa"; "a run-down neighborhood"; "a woebegone old shack"

2. lacking physical strength or vitality;: "a feeble old woman"; "her body looked sapless"

实用场景例句

The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.: 该影片是在一所破旧不堪的警察局里拍摄的。

Hanging from the walls, propped on benches, resting in their decrepit boxes, are nearly 2,000 dead.: 挂在墙上、靠在长板凳上、躺在破旧棺木里的, 是将近2000个死者.

Conclusion: Extract of Polygonum multiflorum Thunb. ( PmT ) have effect of decrepit obviously.: 结论: 何首乌提取物具有明显的抗衰延寿作用.

Bill rode past the street on a horse that looked decrepit and about to collapse.: 比尔骑着一匹劣马走过街道,那马摇摇晃晃地简直随时会趴下来.

Bill rode past the street on a horse that decrepit and about to collapse.: 比尔骑着一匹马经街道而过,那马衰弱得很,简直随时会趴下走不动.

Cinemas were old and decrepit , productions were clunkers and pirated videotapes and discs proliferated.: 影院老旧不堪,制作陈旧, 盗版横行.

Then her heart sank. The decrepit animal would never pull the hill.: 可随即她的心又往下沉 ---- 这匹跛脚老马怎么爬得上去呀!

In Hongwu the government assembled and changed some counties because the economy was decrepit.: 洪武朝,因河南府经济残破,政府对其所属的一些县进行省并和改属.

The British music scene is nostalgic, decrepit and moribund.: 英国音乐呈现出感伤怀旧、暮气沉沉、行将就木的景象。

The film had been shot in a decrepit old police station.: 该影片是在一所破旧不堪的警察局里拍摄的。

The infrastructure, from hotels to transport, is old and decrepit.: 从宾馆到交通，所有的基础设施都已陈旧失修。