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Definition of weather-beaten in English: weather-beatenadjectiveˈwɛðəbiːt(ə)nˈwɛðər ˈbitn 1Damaged or worn by exposure to the weather. 被风雨侵蚀的,被日晒雨淋的 a tiny weather-beaten church 风雨侵蚀的小教堂。 Example sentencesExamples - The highest point along a wide volcano crater is marked by a weather-beaten cross.
- It had a small shady verandah with weather-beaten wooden benches round the edge, and I sank on to one with an ice-cold beer in my hand and my toes digging into the cool sand.
- Pulling into Pol-i-Alam, the small, dusty provincial capital, we made our way to the plain, weather-beaten building that serves as the office of the governor.
- The weather-beaten signboard contains the same information in Urdu and Gujrathi also.
- They still live in the duplex, now old and weather-beaten.
- The work to restore the clock and tower above the market hall began in October as it had become weather-beaten and the materials had deteriorated.
- There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
- This would place the bones' arrival in the early part of the 19th century, which is consistent with a 1905 photograph showing the bones already tattered and weather-beaten.
- At one point, the guide gestured to a weather-beaten stone cross, saying that it had stood for at least 1,000 years.
- There are also contemplative zones, like a fragrant garden for smell, the colour garden and a pool of lilies for sight, and a tactile area strewn with weather-beaten rocks to stimulate the sense of touch.
- St Nicholas' Church has been granted more than £130,000 by English Heritage to repair the weather-beaten building.
- As we turned off the road and headed towards the main gate, we were confronted by a massive pair of wooden gates, set in a very old weather-beaten gate lodge.
- Nobody is likely to pay attention to the brown weather-beaten apartment.
- Its entrance is a weather-beaten door sandwiched between an occult bookshop and a ritual shop on Vaughan Road.
- The buildings are tall, weather-beaten grey sandstone, a pleasing jumble of medieval and modern.
- The shoreline was ten feet away, lined with weather-beaten fossils of forgotten fishing boats.
- Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
- The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water.
- A typical Chinese village consists of a cluster of weather-beaten stone houses or mud huts surrounded by open fields where each family tills a small plot.
- The weather-beaten windows, with their peeling paint, will go, as will the threadbare carpet in the games room.
Synonyms creased, wrinkly, lined, covered with lines, crinkled, crinkly, furrowed, grooved, ridged, crumpled, puckered, shrivelled, wizened - 1.1 Having skin that is lined and tanned or reddened through prolonged time spent outdoors.
(人,人的脸部)饱经风霜的,晒黑的 a weather-beaten old face a weather-beaten traveller Example sentencesExamples - Nose bent impossibly over a weather-beaten face, he looks much older than his 46 years.
- A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
- Today he's a small wiry man with weather-beaten tanned skin, an equally small moustache, sparkly eyes and a ready grin.
- Her face was worn and weather-beaten, but it creased into the recollection of a smile.
- He asks me to take a look at the other hunt supporters gathered around: country folk all, many with weather-beaten faces and flat Yorkshire accents to go with their caps.
- She is now in her early 40s, weather-beaten and prematurely aged, wearing only a tattered, faded sari that ends high above the ankles.
- At the Lima meeting, the intense, weather-beaten faces of stocky Andean men light up as they passionately take the floor, one after another, on behalf of their communities' concerns.
- Well, it all starts with an old weather-beaten fisherman who complains to the wise and worldly Dr. Yano that the heavily-polluted water of Suruga Bay can no longer sustain fish.
- In the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington a middle-aged woman with a weather-beaten face and a brown wig sits on a milk crate demonstrating against US foreign policy - as she has done for the last 21 years.
- Thousands listened to this man with a weather-beaten face, long hair parted like a woman's, eyes flashing, clothes a mass of rags, a big toe protruding from a moccasin.
- A wide-brimmed hat was pulled down low over his eyes, but Alanis could still see them, surprisingly watchful and aware, glittering at her, like two black beetles in a weather-beaten face.
- He sat at the centre of the table, looking down, as weather-beaten and differently dressed and slightly alien as a deep-sea fisherman.
- He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
- Their features were at once craggy and dour, their skin tough-looking and weather-beaten.
- I'd have said ‘Don't be crazy,’ he says, his weather-beaten face creasing into a smile.
- He's got so many lines on his weather-beaten old face his Botox bill would be enormous.
- McCarthy's angular face, a weather-beaten mask of crags and furrows, hides an inner core filled with Yorkshire steel and Irish charm.
- His hair uncombed, his face weather-beaten and drawn, he looks perhaps a decade older than his 42 years.
- The weather-beaten faces staring out from old photographs are no longer around to tell of the hardships of life in a remote mining community 100 years ago.
- ‘Oh, I see,’ said Marcus, and smiled at her, the grizzled smile of a weather-beaten old man.
- Smiles can be seen on the weather-beaten faces of those who have been able to pocket this year's pay.
Synonyms tanned, suntanned, brown, bronzed, bronze, browned, perma-tanned
Definition of weather-beaten in US English: weather-beatenadjectiveˈweT͟Hər ˈbētnˈwɛðər ˈbitn 1Damaged or worn by exposure to the weather. 被风雨侵蚀的,被日晒雨淋的 a tiny weather-beaten church 风雨侵蚀的小教堂。 Example sentencesExamples - Nobody is likely to pay attention to the brown weather-beaten apartment.
- The highest point along a wide volcano crater is marked by a weather-beaten cross.
- At one point, the guide gestured to a weather-beaten stone cross, saying that it had stood for at least 1,000 years.
- St Nicholas' Church has been granted more than £130,000 by English Heritage to repair the weather-beaten building.
- The shoreline was ten feet away, lined with weather-beaten fossils of forgotten fishing boats.
- A typical Chinese village consists of a cluster of weather-beaten stone houses or mud huts surrounded by open fields where each family tills a small plot.
- They still live in the duplex, now old and weather-beaten.
- The buildings are tall, weather-beaten grey sandstone, a pleasing jumble of medieval and modern.
- It had a small shady verandah with weather-beaten wooden benches round the edge, and I sank on to one with an ice-cold beer in my hand and my toes digging into the cool sand.
- The weather-beaten signboard contains the same information in Urdu and Gujrathi also.
- There, in the middle of a cornfield, just beyond a row of housing projects, sits a weather-beaten ghost town called Westec City.
- Storm-swiped vessels with broken masts and tattered sails beached alongside the dock, frail and weather-beaten, but home from the squall.
- Its entrance is a weather-beaten door sandwiched between an occult bookshop and a ritual shop on Vaughan Road.
- As we turned off the road and headed towards the main gate, we were confronted by a massive pair of wooden gates, set in a very old weather-beaten gate lodge.
- The weather-beaten windows, with their peeling paint, will go, as will the threadbare carpet in the games room.
- The train sweeps along the valley along Suisun Bay, where a collection of weather-beaten old ships from WWII sit looking forlorn in the still water.
- The work to restore the clock and tower above the market hall began in October as it had become weather-beaten and the materials had deteriorated.
- Pulling into Pol-i-Alam, the small, dusty provincial capital, we made our way to the plain, weather-beaten building that serves as the office of the governor.
- This would place the bones' arrival in the early part of the 19th century, which is consistent with a 1905 photograph showing the bones already tattered and weather-beaten.
- There are also contemplative zones, like a fragrant garden for smell, the colour garden and a pool of lilies for sight, and a tactile area strewn with weather-beaten rocks to stimulate the sense of touch.
Synonyms creased, wrinkly, lined, covered with lines, crinkled, crinkly, furrowed, grooved, ridged, crumpled, puckered, shrivelled, wizened - 1.1 (of a person or a person's face) having skin that is lined and tanned or reddened through prolonged time spent outdoors.
(人,人的脸部)饱经风霜的,晒黑的 Example sentencesExamples - Nose bent impossibly over a weather-beaten face, he looks much older than his 46 years.
- Their features were at once craggy and dour, their skin tough-looking and weather-beaten.
- He asks me to take a look at the other hunt supporters gathered around: country folk all, many with weather-beaten faces and flat Yorkshire accents to go with their caps.
- ‘Oh, I see,’ said Marcus, and smiled at her, the grizzled smile of a weather-beaten old man.
- In the middle of Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington a middle-aged woman with a weather-beaten face and a brown wig sits on a milk crate demonstrating against US foreign policy - as she has done for the last 21 years.
- Her face was worn and weather-beaten, but it creased into the recollection of a smile.
- Thousands listened to this man with a weather-beaten face, long hair parted like a woman's, eyes flashing, clothes a mass of rags, a big toe protruding from a moccasin.
- Well, it all starts with an old weather-beaten fisherman who complains to the wise and worldly Dr. Yano that the heavily-polluted water of Suruga Bay can no longer sustain fish.
- Smiles can be seen on the weather-beaten faces of those who have been able to pocket this year's pay.
- Today he's a small wiry man with weather-beaten tanned skin, an equally small moustache, sparkly eyes and a ready grin.
- He was a man of thirty-four or thirty-five years of age, dressed in some grey material, sharp-nosed, alert, with a ruddy, weather-beaten face, and a small, closely cropped, black beard.
- His hair uncombed, his face weather-beaten and drawn, he looks perhaps a decade older than his 42 years.
- The weather-beaten faces staring out from old photographs are no longer around to tell of the hardships of life in a remote mining community 100 years ago.
- At the Lima meeting, the intense, weather-beaten faces of stocky Andean men light up as they passionately take the floor, one after another, on behalf of their communities' concerns.
- He's got so many lines on his weather-beaten old face his Botox bill would be enormous.
- A wide-brimmed hat was pulled down low over his eyes, but Alanis could still see them, surprisingly watchful and aware, glittering at her, like two black beetles in a weather-beaten face.
- He sat at the centre of the table, looking down, as weather-beaten and differently dressed and slightly alien as a deep-sea fisherman.
- McCarthy's angular face, a weather-beaten mask of crags and furrows, hides an inner core filled with Yorkshire steel and Irish charm.
- She is now in her early 40s, weather-beaten and prematurely aged, wearing only a tattered, faded sari that ends high above the ankles.
- A frown of irritation creased his brown and weather-beaten face, obscured by a scraggly black beard that tended to make him rather inscrutable, and probably enhanced his reputation amongst the villagers.
- I'd have said ‘Don't be crazy,’ he says, his weather-beaten face creasing into a smile.
Synonyms tanned, suntanned, brown, bronzed, bronze, browned, perma-tanned
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