cast-off

柯林斯詞典

cast-off (also castoff) (cast-offs)

• 1. ADJ Cast-off things, especially clothes, are ones which someone no longer uses because they are old or unfashionable, and which they give to someone else or throw away. 丟棄的[ADJ n]

  Alexandra looked plump and awkward in her cast-off clothing. 亞力山德拉穿著她那件丟棄的衣服，顯得臃腫而又笨拙。

• 2. N-COUNT Cast-off is also a noun. 丟棄的衣物[usu pl]

  I never had anything new to wear as a child, only a cousin's cast-offs. 我小時候從沒穿過新衣服，穿的全都是一位表姐的舊衣服。

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