破旧

And his clothes would all go to pot.

他的衣服也会破旧的。

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。

It's not just that we beat the old record, we annihilated it.

我们得到的数据并没有正好打破旧的记录，而是远远超过了旧的记录。

India bridles at its growing dependence on Chinese telecommunications and power equipment, vital for modernising its decrepit infrastructure.

中国电信与电力设备对印度破旧基础设施的现代化至关重要，但印度却对自己日益依赖中国设备感到不爽。

It seemed to her a very large amount of money, and the way in which it stuffed and bulged her worn old wallet gave her a feeling of importance such as she had not enjoyed for years.

参考译文这笔钱对于她来说似乎是个大数目，钱塞在她那破旧的钱包里鼓鼓囊囊的样子时她觉得自己很重要，这种感觉已经多年没有感受到了。

Geckos clucked away from the walls of our room as rats fought in the ceiling above.

那天，我们寄宿在一家老旅社。在岁月的侵蚀下，它的光辉已不复存在，昔日平滑的水泥墙面而今已布满裂痕，室内的家具也都破旧不堪。

Scrawny men sat outside, chewing tobacco and spitting into the dirt. Naked children defecated in the open, and women lined up at the public taps to fetch water in battered plastic jerry cans.

枯瘦的男人们坐在屋外，嚼完烟，又把烟叶吐到地上；光溜溜的小孩，在屋外尿尿；女人们排着队，等着用破旧的塑料油桶在公共的水龙头里取水。

It is rather a relief and disburdening of the mind; it seems to have been a holiday time with us then; we were not called to appear upon the stage of life, to wear robes or tatters, to laugh or cry, be hooted or applauded; we had lain perduall this while, sung out of harm's way; and had slept out our thousands of centuries without wanting to be waked up; at peace and free from care, in a long nonage, in a sleep deeper and calmer than that of infancy, wrapped in the softest and finest dust.

相反，我们都可以释放心灵，缓解忧愁。我们仿佛在度假一般，我们没有被传唤至人生舞台上，穿着华丽的衣服或破旧的衣衫，大笑不止，或痛哭流涕，被人训斥或者赞美；然而对此，我们却隐藏了许久，安详悠闲，而远离伤害，我们仿佛沉睡了千百个世纪，不愿被人唤醒，安逸而无忧虑，总处于孩童时期，而且比婴孩还睡的还要深沉，还要平静，被裹挟于最轻柔最细密的灰尘之中。

The box is so old it just disintegrated when I picked it up.

那箱子太破旧了，我一提就散了。

The box was so old that it disintegrated when I picked it up.

那箱子太破旧，我刚一提起就散了。

In the negative and interrogative forms, of course, this is identical to the non-emphatic forms.

。但是，在否定句或疑问句里，这种带有"do"的方法表达的效果却没有什么强调的意思。

Go down on one's knees;kneel down

屈膝跪下。。。下跪祈祷