stale bread
collocation不新鲜的面包
I threw away the stale bread because nobody wanted to eat it.
我把不新鲜的面包扔掉了，因为没人想吃。
不新鲜的；变味的
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不新鲜的；变味的
No longer fresh, especially food that has become dry, hard, or unpleasant.
I forgot to close the bag, and by the next morning the popcorn was stale.
我忘了把袋子封好，到第二天早上爆米花就不新鲜了。
多指食物、气味等不再新鲜
不再新鲜,指食物、尿液、稻草、伤口等
No longer fresh, in reference to food, urine, straw, wounds, etc.
不再新鲜、新颖或有趣,指想法和非物质事物；陈词滥调、老套、过时
No longer fresh, new, or interesting, in reference to ideas and immaterial things; clichéd, hackneyed, dated.
不是新的或最近的；已经存在或生效一段时间
Not new or recent; having been in place or in effect for some time.
指索赔和行动,来得不合理地长
Unreasonably long in coming, in reference to claims and actions.
The bread was too stale to use for sandwiches, so I made breadcrumbs instead.
这块面包太不新鲜了，没法用来做三明治，所以我改做了面包屑。
This slice of cake is staler than the one I tried yesterday.
这块蛋糕比我昨天尝的那块更不新鲜。
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不新鲜的面包
I threw away the stale bread because nobody wanted to eat it.
我把不新鲜的面包扔掉了，因为没人想吃。
不新鲜的空气；浑浊的空气
The room had a stale air smell after being closed all winter.
整个冬天关着门，房间里有一股不新鲜的空气味。
老掉牙的笑话；陈腐的笑话
He keeps telling the same stale jokes at every party.
他在每次聚会上都讲同样的老掉牙笑话。
过时的数据；陈旧的数据
The report was based on stale data from five years ago.
这份报告基于五年前的过时数据。
过期支票；长期未兑现的支票
The bank refused to cash the stale check because it was more than six months old.
银行拒绝兑现这张过期支票，因为它已经开出六个多月了。
变得不新鲜；变得陈腐
If you leave the cookies out, they will go stale quickly.
如果你把饼干放在外面，它们很快会变得不新鲜。
这世间的一切，在我看来，是多么可厌、陈腐、乏味而无益啊！
The bread was so stale that we fed it to the birds.
面包变得不新鲜了，我们把它喂了鸟。
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把 stale 想成“s + tale”：一个讲了太多次的老故事(tale)毫无新意，正如不新鲜的食物，令人觉得陈腐乏味。
语域：mixed 常见场景：food and drink、ideas and writing、news and data、legal and financial documents stale 的语域会随搭配变化：指食物、空气等时是日常中性词；指观点、笑话等时带负面评价；在法律或金融语境中（如 stale check/claim）偏正式、书面。因此没有唯一的语域选择，通常需根据具体搭配判断。
常用于修饰食物不新鲜或空气污浊；可引申为陈旧的、厌倦的
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