But while three-lane highways are being built, feeder roads from rural communities remain decrepit.

但是正当速公路建设时，通往农村社区的支路却还是残破不堪。

A vast number of other public-sector entities, some of them decrepit, often create bottlenecks.

大量其他公有制经济成份经常为经济发展制造瓶颈，其中不乏后垂死的公司产业。

Technical problems with decrepit machines had caused some votes to be counted more than once or not at all.

破旧的机器造成的技术问题让部分选票不是被重复统计了，就是根本没被统计上。

It's very out of print, but luckily the New York Public Library has a slightly decrepit copy.

这本书已经绝版了，但幸运的是，纽约公共图书馆还有本稍旧的版本。

What's there to celebrate – getting old and decrepit?

有什么值得庆祝的——变老和衰老？

Makes me feel old and decrepit.

让我感觉己老了、衰弱了。

The decrepit president was declaring a deceptive declaration.

衰老的总统正在宣布项虚伪的宣言。

So, I had this old laptop that is decrepit and kind of takes an hour to start up, to boot up.

我有台老旧的笔记本电脑，开机就需要个小时。

We had plowed through long vines of poison ivy along the decrepit fence.

我们沿着破旧的篱笆犁过长长的毒藤蔓。

And it did that even after demolishing over 7m old or decrepit homes a year.

即使在每年拆除超过 700 万栋旧房或破旧房屋之后，它仍然做了这点。

And it gets even more puzzling because these vultures are not like old, decrepit, you know, vultures.

更令人费解的是，这些秃鹫并不像老秃鹰，你知道，秃鹫。

The fill ended, I remembered, in a forty-foot drop to a decrepit ferry that crossed the river.

填土结束，我记得，在个 40 英尺的差处个过河的破旧渡轮上。

I had walked into that reading-room a happy, healthy man. I crawled out a decrepit wreck.

我进入阅览室的时候，是个愉快而健康的人。我走出阅览室的时候，却成了个虚 弱而衰老的病夫了。

I came home very tired; but I am not yet decrepit, and for that I must be thankful.

我很累地回家；但我还没有衰老，为此我必须心存感激。

The earliest social homes were almshouses—institutions for the old and decrepit built by rich benefactors with an eye on their souls.

最早的社会之家是救济院——由富有的捐助者着眼于他们的灵魂而为年老体衰者建造的机构。

This old bookcase I have that holds all of my books, it's old and decrepit, it's starting to fall down.

我有的这个旧书柜装着我所有的书， 它又旧又破，开始倒塌了。

While I'm waiting, I'm gonna curl my eyelashes with this decrepit old eyelash curler that I love and swear by.

在我等待的时候，我会用我喜欢并发誓的这个破旧的旧睫毛夹卷曲我的睫毛。

His gaunt face, however, and his clothes, which hung so baggily over his shrivelled limbs, proclaimed what it was that gave him that senile and decrepit appearance.

但是，他那削瘦的面庞和罩在骨瘦如柴的四肢上的大口袋似的衣服，使他看起来老朽不堪。

The decrepit animal would never pull the hill. The slope had always seemed so slight, so gradual, in days when she galloped up it on her fleet-footed mare.

这匹跛脚老马怎么爬得上去呀！以前总觉得这个山坡又小又平缓，算不了什么，她常常跨着她的快脚母马飞驰而上，毫不费力。

The sand was trodden smooth and there were a decrepit iron stove and a clothes line, on which a bit of tattered cloth still hung.

沙子被踩得很光滑， 有个破旧的铁炉和晾衣绳， 上面还挂着块破布。