well-worn

Dashing out of the security center, he bounded up the treads of the well-worn staircase three at a time.

冲出安全中心，他一次越过三级已经陈旧的台阶。

But when he would spring from his chair to express his thanks to a patron, his tanned, well-worn face would erupt into hundreds of wrinkles.

然而每当他从椅子上跳起来对主顾表示谢意时，他那晒得黝黑的饱经沧桑的脸庞上都会突然出现无数皱纹。

It's the sort of well-worn, well-meaning phrase that we utter reflexively before hanging up the phone, anxious to do our friendship duty.

在我们挂断电话前都会因为迫不及待要履行为人朋友的职责，而说上这么一句用滥了的、善意的话。

With Eliana in her arms, Sue picked up a well-worn book that we had read to our daughter when she was a little girl.

妻子把伊莲娜抱在怀里，然后拿起一本已经十分老旧的书读给她听。

Asked whether things will turn out for the best, he smiles, shrugs and resorts to a well-worn Arabic fatalism: "God willing" .

被问到一切否会转朝最好方向发展时，他笑着耸了耸肩，套用了一句阿拉伯宿命论的老话：“天意吧！”

The whole interior seems to be made up of dark, well-worn wood.

餐馆内部整个装饰似乎都由黑色、老化严重的木材组成。

In support of those efforts, Rice might appear on camera, but she won't be traveling the well-worn path as a news or policy analyst.

为了宣传这些活动，赖斯可能需要出镜，但肯定不会走大家已经很熟悉的那种新闻分析师或政策分析师路线。

Apparently, reading from the well-worn Apple playbook, the company has not commented publicly about the battery complaints.

显而易见，鉴于苹果公司以往一贯的做法，他们是不会公开就用户对电池问题的抱怨作出评论的。

On a steamy Wednesday afternoon in October, a well-worn jeep pulls off the pock-marked dirt road and ambles to a stop in the tall grass.

在十月的一个闷热的星期三下午，我们开着一辆破旧的吉普车从坑坑洼洼的土路上驶下，然后换马前行至高草丛里停下。

There was no road, only a well worn truck trail.

那里没有公路，之有一条相当破旧的卡车道。

These well-worn theories are among seven "medical myths" exposed in a paper published in the British Medical Journal.

这些老生常谈在《英国医学杂志》的一篇论文中被列入七项“医学误区”。

That 'Nobody on his deathbed ever said, 'I wish I'd spent more time at the office, '' is a well-worn idiom.

从来没人在临终之际说：‘我要是把更多的时间花在了办公室就好了。’

Toward the end of the win over the Nets, we saw Mutombo and Jackson perched on the bench, two mounds of ice on their well-worn knees.

赢网队那场球的末尾，我们看到穆托姆博和杰克逊在板凳上歇着，两堆冰袋放在他们包裹的好好的膝盖上。

Chile went down the well-worn route of currency intervention, sterilized through local bond issues, to try to limit peso strength.

智利走的是干预汇率的老路，通过发行本国债券进行市场冲销，以限制比索升值。

Their encounters fell into a well-worn pattern: tense standoffs, ending in frustration or tragedy.

他们所遇到的陷入了老套的桥段：紧张的僵局，以失败或者悲剧结束。

There's also a well worn cliche that you can identify early leaders as they are the ones with arrows in their back.

有一个老生常谈的说法，早期的领头羊很容易辨认，因为他们是众矢之的。

Official statements from both countries rarely stray from well-worn diplomatic language and are often hard to interpret.

两国的官方声明很少偏离陈词滥调的外交语言，而且往往让人琢磨不透。

It is frightening to veer off the well-worn path , better known as our " comfort zone" .

抛弃旧路是可怕的，因为那是我们的舒适区。

Yet there is nothing unusual about such lofty declarations; indeed, those who make them are treading a well-worn path.

然而这类崇高的声明并不稀罕，实际上，他们因此而让自己走在一条陈旧的道路上。

Although a certain impact on Frege, Russell has left the well-worn research path in the theory of proper names.

虽然受到弗雷格一定的影响，但是在对专名的看法上却离开了陈腐的研究路径。