stale
adj
1 (esp of food) smelling or tasting unpleasant, mouldy or dry, because no longer fresh (尤指食物)不新鮮的, 走味的, 帶霉味的, 乾癟的
stale biscuits, bread, cake, beer 不新鮮的餅乾、 面包、 糕餅、 啤酒
the smell of stale cigarette smoke 陳舊香煙的煙味.
2 no longer interesting because heard, done, etc too often before; not new 因陳舊而乏味的; 過(guò)時(shí)的
stale news, jokes, ideas 老掉牙的消息、 笑話(huà)、 思想
Her performance has become stale. 她的表演沒(méi)有新意了.
3 (of athletes, musicians, performers, etc) no longer able to perform well because of too much training, playing, practice, etc (指運(yùn)動(dòng)員、 音樂(lè)工作者、 表演者等)(因訓(xùn)練、 演奏、 練習(xí)等過(guò)度)疲沓的. stale, v [I]
become stale 變得不新鮮; 走味; 失去新意; 變得疲沓
The pleasure I get from listening to such music never stales. 這種音樂(lè)我百聽(tīng)不厭.