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But, with much of this wealth tied up in horrific stock markets, tycoons are a looking a little more threadbare.

然而，由于大部分财富绑牢在可怕的股票市场，巨富们的外表看起来没那么光鲜了。

The next day, when his parents thought he was dead while he appeared at home with threadbare clothes on his body.

第二天就在小明的父母以为他死了，小明衣衫褴褛地出现在家里。

Or, on a smaller scale, you may want to take inventory of your linens to see if you need to replenish some that have become threadbare.

或者么，你可能会整理一份家织用品的清单来看看哪些是已经旧了需要更新换代的。

After much hand-wringing, he decided to return to the United States to attend Yale, which overlooked his threadbare high school transcript.

经过一番痛苦的煎熬，他决定返回美国去耶鲁上大学，而耶鲁也忽视了他一塌糊涂的高中成绩单。

Add to this the fact that no one wants to be Billy No Mates and you have the recipe for an explosion of transient and threadbare friendship.

另外，没有人希望成为没有几个朋友的可怜人，你可以拥有众多短暂而俗套的友谊。

Over the last decade, the threadbare credibility and legitimacy of Arab regimes was undermined by the information revolution.

过去十年间，阿拉伯各国政权的合法性以及他们糟糕的信誉度，遭到了信息革命的进一步削弱。

Juventus are so worried about their threadbare attack that they are thinking about recalling Davide Lanzafame from his loan spell at Parma.

尤文图斯对球队前锋的状态感到担忧，因此他们正在考虑召回被租借到帕尔玛的大卫德。兰扎法梅。

The textile sector is a huge employer with threadbare margins that have been worn away by currency appreciation and rising input costs.

纺织行业提供了大量的就业机会，而它的利润却被人民币升值及日益上涨的投入成本所蚕食。

But the West generally, with its foxy ladies and 20th century Hollywood conglomerates, can offer only relatively threadbare comparisons.

但是在当今的西方，经过狡猾妇人跟20世纪好莱坞的混合加工，只能做相近的对比了。

Holes have not only appeared in the bank's accounts; its initial version of events is also looking threadbare.

不仅是银行的账目，它对这一事件最初的解释也显得破绽百出。

Clad in a threadbare flannel shirt, he stopped in to help me clip the bones.

他穿着一身破旧的法兰绒衬衫，在一旁帮我改大内衣尺寸。

The threadbare inventory the authors discovered in the village store outside Hyderabad is only one example.

作者在海德拉巴城外乡村看到的捉襟见肘小店就是一个例子。

Our logon(AuthBundle) is relatively threadbare because OmniFind is a stateless repository that does not support a continuous session.

logon（AuthBundle）是无线程的，因为OmniFind是无状态存储库，不支持连续会话。

Even that proviso looked threadbare when grim-faced Italian police, backed by bulldozers, swept through shanty towns full of Romanians.

当令人生畏的意大利警察，在推土机的掩护下，扫荡罗马尼亚移民居住的破旧棚屋时，那个附件看上去甚至有些陈腐不堪。

Talk about getting something had become even too threadbare and ridiculous for him.

关于要找事做的那套话，连他自己都觉得乏味可笑。

In their threadbare logic and refusal to acknowledge moral complexity, these views are almost interchangeable.

这两种观点在缺乏逻辑和拒绝承认道德的复杂性方面，可谓半斤八两。

As the old man stares down at the threadbare carpet, a mangy dog chews at scraps under the kitchen sink.

当这老人凝视脚下磨掉了毛的地毯时，一只脱了毛的狗正在厨房污水槽下嚼食残羹剩饭。

At some institutions, mounting losses are making the cushions of capital held for times of crisis look increasingly threadbare.

对某些机构来说，越积越多的损失使它们为市场危机准备的缓冲资本变得不堪一击。

And many see the current UN conference as the last chance to shore up an increasingly threadbare nuclear non- proliferation treaty .

而在许多人看来，本次联合国会议是支持越来越显得陈腐的“核不扩散条约”的最后机会。

Many remained until their clothing became threadbare but had no jewels to sew in the seams.

很多人留在中国直到衣衫褴褛，但还是没有任何珠宝可以藏在衣缝里。