moth-eaten

音標(biāo)發(fā)音

Your wealth has rotted away, your clothes have become moth-eaten.
你們的財產(chǎn)腐爛了，你們的衣服被蛀蟲吃了。
Amid the multitudes in sleek evening garb, the molting birds had the look of disheveled bounders or tipplers in moth-eaten raccoon coats.
在大量有光澤的晚禮服中，脫毛企鵝看起來就像穿著被蟲蛀的浣熊皮外套的邋遢莽漢或者醉鬼。
The sweater is moth-eaten.
毛衣讓蛀蟲咬壞了。
《新英漢大辭典》

Dean, ragged in a moth-eaten overcoat he bought specially for the freezing temperatures of the East, walked off alone and the last I saw of him he rounded the corner of Seventh Avenue, eyes on the street ahead and bent to it again.
狄恩穿著一件被蟲蛀過的破大衣,這是他特意帶來防備東部寒冷氣候的，孤獨地走了，我最后看到他徘徊在,7號大街的轉(zhuǎn)角，眼望前方，然后轉(zhuǎn)身消失了。
耶魯公開課 - 1945年后的美國小說課程節(jié)選

Follow that line, and independence sounds like a progressive act to promote friendship between the yeomen of England and the brave hearts of Scotland, liberating two ancient cultures from the moth-eaten baggage of imperialist, embittered Britishness.
ECONOMIST: Bagehot
Sir Richard, arguably the second most powerful man in Britain, retains old-school civil-service values: devoted to its ethos, uninterested in partisan politics, and hooked on the traditional though moth-eaten doctrine of the accountability of civil servants through ministers to Parliament.
ECONOMIST: Tony Blair’s mighty servant
Though conservation is the trust's overriding goal, members seem likely to approve Mr Reid's plan to demolish this moth-eaten structure and replace it with something new—merging the board and council into a single elected 15-member body reporting annually to members.
ECONOMIST: National Trust for Scotland: Demolish and preserve

Moth-eaten clothes look very old and have holes in them.
If you describe something as moth-eaten, you mean that it seems unattractive or useless because it is old or has been used too much.