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破旧

pò jiù

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 2-character word Traditional 破舊

破旧 (pò jiù) means "shabby". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 破旧 means

1. shabby

The characters in 破旧

• 破pòbroken; damaged; worn out
• 旧jiùold; opposite: new 新; former

Example sentences

• 她的衣服破旧不堪。
  Tā de yīfu pòjiù bù kān.
  Her clothes are worn out.
• 房间除了一张破旧的床以外，就什么也没有了。
  Fángjiān chúle yī zhāng pòjiù de chuáng yǐwài, jiù shénme yě méiyǒu le.
  The room was empty except for a shabby bed.
• 房间除了一张破旧的床以外，就甚么也没有了。
  The room was empty except for a shabby bed.
• 当汤姆开着他破旧的雷泽车来接女儿放学时，他的女儿假装不认识他。
  Dāng Tāngmǔ kāi zhe tā pòjiù de léi zé chē lái jiē nǚ'ér fàngxué shí, tā de nǚ'ér jiǎzhuāng bù rènshi tā.
  Tom's daughter pretended not to know him when he came to pick her up from school in his battered old car.
• 这部发生在破旧不堪小镇的救赎与希望之歌，是南非选送今年奥斯卡的作品，并入围了最佳外语片五强角逐。
  A gritty story of redemption and hope in a ramshackle urban township is the South African entry for this year's Academy Awards and one of the five finalists for Best Foreign Language Film.
• 卡罗尔威克和她的丈夫拥有美国人都梦想的一小块土地，位于华盛顿州西雅图东南部的喀斯喀特山麓边缘，占地 12 公顷。从她家门口步行不远，穿过一些牧场和一座破旧的谷仓，就能到达复盖她土地约三分之一的冷杉和雪松林。
  Carol Wick and her husband own a small slice of the American dream, 12 hectares at the edge of the Cascade foothills, southeast of Seattle, Washington. A short walk from her doorstop, past some pastures and a dilapidated barn, is the fir and cedar forest that covers about one-third of her property.

Words starting with 破旧

• 破旧立新pò jiù lì xīnto get rid of the old to bring in the new (idiom); to innovate

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