tatters• Bannersburnt, and tatterstwisted, in every way.• Her hands are claws she keeps concealed within her rags and tatters.• The articles of Arthur Ronald Constance, the famedringcolumnist, lined the walls in ancient, browned, curlingtatters.• To see a starvIng man eating lobstersalad and drinking Rhine wine, barefooted and in tatters, was curious.• On May 4 that year a demoralised Labour Party lost office, its credibility in tatters.• But that lay in tatters last night after the latest revelations.• He said he was now a broken and sorry man whose life is virtually in tatters.• He sat shame-faced as a court heard that his career was in tatters because of the stag night brawl.
VERB + TATTERS | PREPOSITION | PHRASESVERB + TATTERS➤lie in (figurative) 處於破碎狀態◇Her marriage now lay in tatters.她的婚姻現已破裂。➤hang in殘破地垂掛着◇Everywhere wallpaper hung in tatters.到處垂掛着破碎的壁紙。➤leave sth in (figurative) 使⋯破碎◇an injury that left his dreams in tatters令他夢想破滅的一次受傷PREPOSITION➤in tatters破爛不堪;被損壞◇Her clothes were in tatters.她衣衫襤褸。◇With their plans now in tatters, they gave up. (figurative) 如今計劃失敗,他們放棄了。PHRASES➤rags and tatters破爛兒