Decrepit

(adj.) lacking bodily or muscular strength or vitality; 'a feeble old woman'; 'her body looked sapless' .

录入:罗兰

• The object of his search and his unrelenting animosity, now a decrepit old man, was seated at a bare deal table, on which stood a miserable candle. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• In a very short time a decrepit figure had emerged from the opium den, and I was walking down the street with Sherlock Holmes. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• He lies upon his bed, an aged man with sunken cheeks, the decrepit shadow of himself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• If a man has a capacity for great thoughts, he is likely to overtake them before he is decrepit, said Will, with irrepressible quickness. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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