shopworn, well-worn, becoming, ending, hackneyed, commonplace, turns a shopworn simile into a fresh, rousing story, divest

In China, men are considered shopworn if they are unmarried at 25.


Men are considered shopworn if they are unmarried at 25. By contrast, no woman is thought too old to marry


Children's Books
'In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb'
By MARION DANE BAUER
Reviewed by PAMELA PAUL


How to explain to a child the vexing, seemingly unending misery that is March? The picture book "In Like a Lion, Out Like a Lamb" turns a shopworn simile into a fresh, rousing story.


That old dictum, write what you know? I’ve always thought that was terrible advice. Most of us don’t know much. And what we do know can feel shopworn in the retelling. Shopworn or just divested of emotional content. Sometimes, the things we’re closest to — our lives, for instance — are the very things we least want to examine with rigor.

老話常說：寫你所知。我一直覺得這個建議不怎麼樣。我們大多數人知道的並不多。而那些我們知道的事情呢，再去跟別人轉述，感覺也很老套或者缺乏感情。有時，我們最了解的事情——比如我們的生活——正是我們最不想仔細研究的東西。

Japan's Killer Work Ethic
Washington Post - United States
By Blaine Harden TOKYO -- Death from too much work is so commonplace in Japan that there is a word for it -- karoshi. There is a national karoshi hotline, ...

Spammers are bypassing corporate defenses by hiding their pitches for penny stocks and pornography in PDF attachments. Security firms have been caught off guard, even though the attacks rely on a well-worn technology.

垃圾電子信採用pdf方式出奇制勝 雖然它們使用的科技平凡得很 但跳過一般公司的保安措施

(Reuters) - One day after Google's surprise announcement that Larry Page would once again run the company, investors and industry insiders were wondering if he is up to a now very different job.

The 38-year-old co-founder of the world's No. 1 Internet search company will replace Eric Schmidt as chief executive officer in April, at a time when Google Inc is facing tough competition from Facebook and Twitter.
It seems straight out of a well-worn Silicon Valley script -- but with which ending?


well-worn
(wĕl'wôrn', -wōrn')
adj.

1. Showing signs of much wear or use.
2. Repeated too often; trite or hackneyed.
3. Carried or worn in a becoming manner: well-worn fame.

[形]

1 使い古した

well-worn shoes
はき古した靴.

2 身についた.

3 陳腐な.

becoming

[形]((古風))

1 〈服装などが〉（…に）似合う, うつりがよい((to, on ...))

a hairdo becoming to her
彼女に合う髪型.

2 〈行為などが〉（…に）ふさわしい, 適切な((to, in, for ...)).

━━[名][U]変化；《哲学》生成（⇔being）.

be・com・ing・ness

ending

(ĕn'dĭng) 

n.

1. A conclusion or termination.
2. A concluding part; a finale: a happy ending.
3. Grammar. The final morpheme added to a word base to make an inflectional form, such as -ed in walked.

hackneyed	(adjective) Repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse.
Synonyms:	banal, old-hat, stock, threadbare, timeworn, trite, well-worn, tired, shopworn, commonplace
Usage:	For God's sake do not thrust upon me your hackneyed remarks, repeated to nausea, that "I was only a dreamer," while they even then had an understanding of life.

commonplace (ORDINARY) Show phonetics
adjective
happening frequently or often seen or experienced and so not considered to be special:
Home computers are increasingly commonplace.

The adjective well-worn has 2 meanings:
Meaning #1: showing signs of much wear or use
Meaning #2: repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
Synonyms: banal, commonplace, hackneyed, shopworn, stock, threadbare, timeworn, tired, trite

adj. - 用舊了的, 平凡的, 陳腐的
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 使い古した, 月並みな, 陳腐な

shopwornadjective

 UK ​ /ˈʃɒp.wɔːn/ US ​ /ˈʃɑːp.wɔːrn/

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us uk shop-soiled If goods sold in shops are shopworn, they are slightlydirty or damaged and therefore reduced in price

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us If a story or joke is shopworn, it is boring or not interestingbecause it is so familiar to people.

shopworn

(shŏp'wôrn', -wōrn')
adj.

1. Tarnished, frayed, faded, or otherwise defective from being on display in a store.
2. Worn-out, as from overuse; trite: shopworn anecdotes.

[形]((米))

1 〈商品などが〉棚ざらしの（((英))shopsoiled）；〈人が〉いつまでも芽が出ない.

2 つまらない, 単調な；陳腐な.

 shop-soiled

adjective

British

(of an article) made dirty or imperfect by being displayed or handled in a shop: he is selling second-hand or shop-soiled goods  

figurative   his subject—the nature of the artist in relation to his society—is pretty shop-soiled

rousing
(rou'zĭng)
adj.

1. Inducing enthusiasm or excitement; stirring: a rousing sermon.
2. Lively; vigorous: a rousing march tune.
3. Used as an intensive: a rousing lie.

rousingly rous'ing·ly adv.