adj.磨耗的
网络 撕碎; 撕毁; 心已撕裂的我
Having made this lunatic confession, I began to throw my torn-up grass into the river, as if I had some thoughts of following it.
说了这番疯疯癫癫的话之后,我又把拔起来的草丢进河水之中,仿佛我自己也想追随着青草一起跃进河中。
Dozens of miles of railway track have been torn up.
数十英里的铁轨已被拆除。
While nowhere near as common as knee or ankle sprains, torn ACLs put players out of the game for up to a year.
虽然不像膝盖或脚踝扭伤那么常见,但是前十字交叉韧带撕裂会让运动员停赛最长一年之久。
But a cold hard physics fact is that something hurting though space at 18,000 miles a second could be torn up by a collision with the tiniest speck of dust imaginable.
但是一个更冷酷的物理事实是,以每秒18000英里的速度穿越太空,哪怕是能想到的最微小的尘埃,被它一碰都可能将航空器撕个粉碎。
But a society would want compelling evidence that the social contract had been torn up before flexing the tax system to offset what may turn out to be only temporary fluctuations in relative incomes.
不过,在实行税收体系弹性以抵消可能只是暂时性的收入浮动之前,一个社会要想找到自己是公民社会的强有力的证据,很有可能会被打倒。