hoary

英 [ˈhɔːri]

美 [ˈhɔːri]

adj.  陈腐的; 老掉牙的; 陈旧的; (因年老)灰白的，花白的

最高级：hoariest　比较级：hoarier　

GRETEM8医学

BNC.32663 / COCA.25494

牛津词典

adj.

• 陈腐的；老掉牙的；陈旧的
  very old and well known and therefore no longer interesting
  1. a hoary old joke
     老掉牙的笑话
• （因年老）灰白的，花白的
  grey or white because a person is old

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 古老的;陈旧的;老掉牙的
  If you describe a problem or subject ashoary, you mean that it is old and familiar.
  1. ...the hoary old myth that women are unpredictable.
     “女人心，海底针”这种老一套的鬼话

双语例句

• My friends are growing up day by day, and was young and the mature, how can I not had time to grow on the outline of the first to hoary?
  我的朋友们正在一天天地长大，成熟并且风华正茂着，我怎么可以没来得及成长就率先苍老了轮廓？
• In order to investigate the biological characteristics of Hoary Bamboo Rat, We had three tests for it.
  为了研究银星竹鼠的生物学特性，本研究进行了3个试验。
• A venerable building& grey, even in the midst of the hoary landscape.
  一座尊严的建筑便是在一片白茫茫景色之中也很幽暗。
• As I in hoary winter night stood shivering in the snow ( Robert Southwell).
  我站在古老的冬日雪夜中颤抖（罗伯特·索恩韦尔）。
• Although he didn't usually care for that hoary aphorism, it now seemed to contain a miraculous solution to all his problems.
  这一句陈腐的话，虽然平时他并不喜欢，但这时候他却觉得它是解决这一切问题的妙法了！
• Whose beard with age is hoar-Coleridge; nodded his hoary head.
  上了年龄的花白的胡须-柯尔雷基；点了点他头发花白的脑袋。
• Hoary Mount Tai looked more precipitous.
  古老的泰山越发显得崔嵬了。
• Some of this looks quite unlikely, particularly the hoary promise to complete the trade round and the new one to reach a climate agreement.
  其中一些承诺看上去很难兑现，尤其是完成多哈回合贸易谈判的老承诺，以及达成气候变化协定的新承诺。
• Jostling against one another under the domination of desires, who will think of lenient hoary mother?
  在欲望的支配下彼此倾轧，有谁想到仁爱年老的母亲？
• The old man made a will yesterday. the hoary ruins of English abbeys
  那老人昨天立了遗嘱。古老的英国寺院的遗迹