Meanwhile, facilities are threadbare. Half of primary schools have no electricity.

同时，教育设施也很破旧。小学没通电。

In Omeapa, Guerrero, a group of mothers, some wrapped in threadbare shawls, pray in a small church.

格雷罗州Omeapa市，些母亲戴着陈旧围巾在座小教堂里祈祷。

But their faces were as threadbare as a bookkeeper's office coat.

但他们脸像簿记员办公室外套样破旧。

The prince pulled the threadbare stuff aside.

王把破旧东西拉到边。

His wife was Ramona Desborough, who was not exactly threadbare herself.

他妻是雷蒙娜·德斯伯勒 (Ramona Desborough)， 她自己也算不破旧。

He could hear nothing, but the drip, drip on the threadbare carpet.

他什么也听不见，只听见滴滴答答滴落在破旧地毯声音。

By the thousands threadbare people die before threescore.

数以千计衣着破旧人在60岁前死了。

He saw the same pinched faces, threadbare homespuns, bare feet and bent shoulders.

他看到了同样憔悴孔、破旧土布、赤脚和弯曲肩膀。

He pulls his old threadbare coat closer to his body with long knobby fingers.

他用长而多节手指将那件破旧外套拉近身体。

Christy glanced at his own threadbare knees, and then at Fred's beautiful white trousers.

克里斯蒂瞥了眼自己光秃秃膝盖， 又看了看弗雷德漂亮白裤。

He wore a frayed shirt, without a tie, a brown, threadbare coat, and a pair of shabby gray slacks.

他穿着件破旧衬衫， 没有系领带， 身穿件破旧棕色外套和条破旧灰色长裤。

Even the florid carpet on which Ronald's tottering footsteps had been taken was carefully matched when it became too threadbare.

甚至罗纳德 (Ronald) 蹒跚脚步踩过华丽地毯在变得太破旧时也经过精心搭配。

Harry had slid off his chair on to his knees and was now crouching on the singed and threadbare hearthrug, gazing into the flames.

哈利已经从椅下来跪在了地，这时他正俯身趴在壁炉前布满焦痕和绽线地毯，直瞪瞪地望着火苗。

By then I had noticed the ripped seams on the old lady's coat, the threadbare, well-worn quality of the clothes around me.

到那时我已经注意到老太太外套接缝被撕裂了，我周围衣服破旧不堪。

He was dressed in a sort of Norfolk jacket of blue serge worn threadbare, with breeches of the same, and grey worsted stockings.

他穿着件诺福克风格破旧蓝色哔叽夹克， 下身搭配同样马裤和灰色精纺长袜。

His shaggy hair hung below a shapeless hat, and his threadbare shirt and trousers had been rained on and slept in. He smelled like a bonfire.

蓬乱头发从那顶不像样帽下露了出来，破破烂烂衬衣和裤显然被雨水淋湿过，还穿着睡过觉。他浑身散发着种篝火烧焦味道。

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.

贝基哭了，汤姆想办法安慰她，但他所有鼓励都变得陈旧，听起来像是讽刺。

Mr. Sowerberry was a tall gaunt, large-jointed man, attired in a suit of threadbare black, with darned cotton stockings of the same colour, and shoes to answer.

Sowerberry 先生是个高大憔悴、大关节男人，穿着套破旧黑色西装，搭配织补相同颜色棉袜和鞋。

Exiled in Spain at a threadbare and tiny court, the young Otto was schooled for the empty throne: he was fluent in Croatian, English, French, German, Hungarian and Spanish.

他们家被个又旧又小西班牙法庭宣判驱逐出境。那会儿小奥托还被教育着要成为帝国继承人，他能讲口流利克罗地亚语、英语、法语、德语、匈牙利语和西班牙语。

There was perfect unison of ill-grace and senility about them; their faces, as faded as their threadbare coats, as creased as their trousers, were worn-out, shrivelled-up, and puckered.

他们浑身散发着病态和衰老气息。他们脸像他们破旧外套样褪色，像他们裤样皱巴巴，破旧、干瘪、皱巴巴。