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

同时，教育设施也很破旧。一半小学没通电。

They found Mary, as usual, deep in the study of thorough bass and human nature; and had some new extracts to admire, and some new observations of threadbare morality to listen to.

她们发觉曼丽还象以往一样，在埋头研究和声学以及人性问题，她拿出了一些新札记给她们欣赏，又发表一些对旧道德新解给她们听。

He sank into a deep bow so that his pencil-like nose brushed the threadbare surface of the hearthrug and Hedwig gave an indignant hoot and fluttered on to the arm of Harry's chair.

他深鞠一躬，铅笔尖般鼻擦到了破旧地毯，海德薇不满地叫了一声，飞到哈利椅扶手上。

So instead of sewing in the home to repair your family's worn-out items or threadbare stockings, perhaps a middle-class woman can now take time to do things like complicated needlework, which is pretty but not always attached to a practical use.

因此，也许一个中产阶级妇女现在可以花时间做一些复杂针线活，而不是在家缝补家里破旧物品或破袜，这些针线活很漂亮，但并不总是有实际用途。

He wore the same suit that I had seen him in five years before; it was torn and stained, threadbare, and it hung upon him loosely, as though it had been made for someone else.

穿仍然是五年前我到那身衣服，只不过已经破破烂烂，油迹斑斑，而且穿在身上晃晃荡荡，仿佛原来是给别人做似。

" Join us, friends, " urged a spare small man in a threadbare septon's robe, who wore a crystal on a thong about his neck. " Westeros has need of every sword" .

" 我们要去暮谷城，" 克雷顿爵士宣告，" 但或许可以先护送你们安全抵达君临。"

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.

他们一家被一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，他能讲一口流利克罗地亚语、英语、法语、德语、匈牙利语和西班牙语。

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。他浑身散发着一种篝火烧焦味道。

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

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

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

格雷罗州Omeapa市，一些母亲戴着陈旧围巾在一座小教堂里祈祷。

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

他只能听到滴答声，水滴落在破旧地毯上。

And then threadbare, it's barely holding on.

然后是破旧，几乎要散架了。

Ten-year-old James sits on a threadbare sofa and watches his mother.

十岁詹姆斯坐在破旧沙发上，看着他母亲。

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。

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一样破旧。

The prince pulled the threadbare stuff aside.

王把破旧东西拉到一边。

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

克里斯蒂瞥了一眼自己光秃秃膝盖， 又看了看弗雷德漂亮白裤。

The EAC has recommended eighteen improvements to the UK government, from increasing tax on purchases to fund recycling centres to introducing more sewing lessons in schools, encouraging a make do and mend attitude when things become threadbare.

EAC 向英国政府提出了 18 项改进建议，从增加采购税到资助回收中心， 再到在学校开设更多缝纫课程， 鼓励在事情变得破旧时采取凑合修补态度。

She was sitting in a corner by the window, listening with an absorbed and earnest face to what one of the " initiators, " a tall young Lombard in a threadbare coat, was saying to her.

她坐在窗边角落里，聚精会神地听着一个“发起人”对她说话。那个发起人是个高个伦巴第年轻人，穿着一件破旧外套。

The problem is that Europe's kind of anti-ballistic missile defences are looking pretty threadbare now, and so European countries are pretty reluctant to hand over any more, given that they also have a threat from Russia.

问题在于， 欧洲反导防御系统现在显得相当薄弱，因此欧洲国家相当不愿意再提供更多，考虑到它们自身也面临来自俄罗斯威胁。