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weather-beaten

/weth-er-beet-n/US // ˈwɛð ərˌbit n //

饱经风霜的,饱经风霜,饱经风霜的人,饱受风霜的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : bearing evidences of wear or damage as a result of exposure to the weather.
    • : tanned, hardened, or otherwise affected by exposure to weather: a weather-beaten face.

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Examples

  • Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.

  • That ground hold was to stop you flying through weather that could kill you and everyone else aboard.

  • Did the airline file a flight plan that took account of the weather en route from Surabaya, Indonesia, to Singapore?

  • These days weather should never cause a commercial airliner to crash.

  • The 26 were beaten by the bailiffs as they filed into a caged dock, sobbing, on Dec. 21.

  • In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

  • Last night I saw Jean Baptiste lying prone upon the floor, and knew that she had beaten him down to it, and he had not resisted.

  • Four years ago Hetton's horse had been first favourite, but it was ignominiously beaten.

  • He frowned, and bent his head, and his long hair fell over his face, while the poor Stuttgardter sat there like a beaten hound.

  • Blamed ef I'd lived in a country all my life, ef I wouldn't know better'n to git caught out in such weather's this!