Battered

(adj.) exhibiting symptoms resulting from repeated physical and emotional injury; 'a battered child'; 'the battered woman syndrome' .

(adj.) damaged by blows or hard usage; 'a battered old car'; 'the beaten-up old Ford' .

(adj.) damaged especially by hard usage; 'his battered old hat' .

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• When later, Carlyle and Ruskin battered the economists into silence with invective and irony they were voicing the dumb protest of the humane people of England. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• The relic-hunter battered at these persistently, and sweated profusely over his work. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I suppose you are only just come down--you look rather battered--you have not been long enough in the town to hear anything? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I beg that you will look upon it not as a battered billycock but as an intellectual problem. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I am much too battered and old for such a fine young lady as Glorvina. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I saw none but what was dated four or five hundred years back, and was badly worn and battered. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There can, I think, be no doubt that this battered and shapeless diadem once encircled the brows of the royal Stuarts. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Lily, to whom the name conveyed nothing, opened the door upon a woman in a battered bonnet, who stood firmly planted under the hall-light. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• Sebastopol is probably the worst battered town in Russia or any where else. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• On Egdon Heath Sunday proper did not begin till dinner-time, and even then it was a somewhat battered specimen of the day. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• I thought he looked rather battered and depressed. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• What can you gather from this old battered felt? 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• I struck at the skylight, and battered in the cracked, loosened glass at a blow. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• Meantime the clothier did not neglect his battered mill. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• She won't have anything to say to a battered old hulk like that, sir. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.

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