Stale

(verb.) urinate, of cattle and horses.

(adj.) lacking freshness, palatability, or showing deterioration from age; 'stale bread'; 'the beer was stale' .

录入:费尔普斯

• These limp ones are two I killed today at work; but as they don't die till the sun goes down they can't be very stale meat. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• He hit the book a sounding blow with his open hand, and struck out of it a stronger smell of stale tobacco than ever. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• She felt a stealing sense of fatigue as she walked; the sparkle had died out of her, and the taste of life was stale on her lips. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• In the city, it developed only foul stale smells, and was a sickly, lukewarm, dirt-stained, wretched addition to the gutters. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• This coffee-room was a front parlour, the principal features of which were fresh sand and stale tobacco smoke. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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