Her own idea was that, if she lived long enough, she would become a spinster. Unless someone took pity on her when she was old and decrepit and past her work. There was a little humorous smile about his mouth. But his eyes were serious and pleading. "When shall I know that you are old and decrepit?" he asked. She was not quite sure. She thought it would be when her hair was grey--or rather white. She had been informed by experts that her peculiar shade of hair went white, not grey.英文原著 · 《All Roads Lead to Calvary》
The individual educator imbued with honesty of purpose, the artist or writer of original ideas, the independent scientist or explorer, the non-compromising pioneers of social changes are daily pushed to the wall by men whose learning and creative ability have become decrepit with age.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
Yet with all that, but a very small number of the vast army of women wage workers look upon work as a permanent issue, in the same light as does man. No matter how decrepit the latter, he has been taught to be independent, self-supporting. Oh, I know that no one is really independent in our economic treadmill; still, the poorest specimen of a man hates to be a parasite; to be known as such, at any rate.英文原著 · 《Anarchism and Other Essays》
It came from a rusty, black, decrepit-looking mare hitched to a lumber sleigh which they had just passed. Erik, growing very serious, paused abruptly.英文原著 · 《Boyhood in Norway》
Her present rent was 10d. a week, Mr. Edgeworth told me, and she had been letting the tumble- down shed to a large family for 1s. This sub-let was forcibly put an end to, but the landlady still stops there, and there she will stay until the roof tumbles down upon her head. The old creature passed on through the sunshine, a decrepit, picturesque figure carrying her pail to the stream, defying all the laws of progress and political economy and civilisation in her feebleness and determination.英文原著 · 《Castle Rackrent》
I am his friend--Vasanta--the King of the Seasons. Death and decrepitude would wear the world to the bone but that I follow them and constantly attack them. I am Eternal Youth.英文原著 · 《Chitra, a Play in One Act》
I have investigated every possible retirement scenario, and they all lead to homelessness, hunger, despair, and decrepitude.美剧 · 《Shameless》
Maybe we should use this turn of events to demonstrate Jesus's love for us by helping family members who are living with difficult circumstances, like a new mom working herself to the bone to make ends meet or a new dad who has to cram his family into a tiny, decrepit RV in the backyard.美剧 · 《Shameless》
We should be in a Waldenbooks, but we're here, in this decrepit shithole, and why?美剧 · 《Sillicon Valley》