retread
翻新,翻新的,检索,翻新机
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re·tread·ed, re·tread·ing.
- : to put a new tread on either by recapping or by cutting fresh treads in the smooth surface.
- : to repeat or do over, especially without the boldness or inventiveness of the original.
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- : a tire that has been retreaded.
- : Slang. a person returned to active work after retirement, dismissal, etc.
- : a person retrained for a new or more modern job or task.
- : Informal. a repeating, reviving, or reworking of an old or familiar idea, presentation, story, etc., especially when unimaginative or hackneyed; rehash: a boring retread of a classic movie.
- : Slang. a person representing older or previous times, ideas, policies, etc., especially when they are deemed passé or tiresome.
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Examples
Depending on who you ask, that sounds like a derivative retread or box office gold.
Such retread stories from the past, they say, do not worry them.
And this never-never tepid retread of a Bush-era policy is, incredibly, the only actual policy on offer.
Instead he mocked them and rehashed old ideas with retread rhetoric.
The line was a retread from his speech in 2008, where he used an almost identical opener.
Nor is his often-riveting new memoir an exercise in nostalgia, apologia, or retread rhetoric.
He turned, as these thoughts passed through his mind, and began hastily to retread his footsteps towards the castle.
I was not insensible that my path became more intricate and more difficult to retread in proportion as I advanced.
Well, would you walk into the Center for a Retread now without being sure he's wrong?
On examination we found that there was no outlet practicable for us in this channel, and that we must retread our steps.
McKenzie was getting old, he wanted a Retread, and wanted it badly.