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

同时，教育设施也很破旧。一半的小学没通电。

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

格罗州Omeapa市，一些母亲戴着陈旧的围巾在一座小教堂里祈祷。

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

但他们的脸像簿记员的办公室外套一样破旧。

The prince pulled the threadbare stuff aside.

王子把破旧的东西拉到一边。

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

他的妻子是蒙娜·德斯伯勒 (Ramona Desborough)， 也算不上破旧。

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上的声音。

By the thousands threadbare people die before threescore.

数以千计的衣着破旧的人在60岁前死了。

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

他看到了同样憔悴的孔、破旧的土布、赤脚和弯曲的肩膀。

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

他用长而多节的手指将那件破旧的外套拉近身体。

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

克里斯蒂瞥了一眼光秃秃的膝盖， 又看了看弗德亮的白裤子。

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

他穿着一件破旧的衬衫， 没有系领带， 身穿一件破旧的棕色外套和一条破旧的灰色长裤。

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) 蹒跚的脚步踩过的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.

哈利已经从椅子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的地毯上，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上的接缝被撕裂了，我周围的衣服破旧不堪。

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

他穿着一件诺福克风格的破旧蓝色哔叽夹克， 下身搭配同样的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.

蓬乱的头发从那顶不像样的帽子下露了出来，破破烂烂的衬衣和裤子显然被雨水淋湿过，还穿着睡过觉。他浑身散发着一种篝火烧焦的味道。

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，但他所有的鼓励都变得陈旧，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、大关节的男人，穿着一套破旧的黑色西装，搭配织补相同颜色的棉袜和鞋子。

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的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，他能讲一口流利的克罗地亚语、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的气息。他们的脸像他们破旧的外套一样褪色，像他们的裤子一样皱巴巴，破旧、干瘪、皱巴巴的。