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If someone or something looks bedraggled, they look , wet, and a bit dirty — the way you look after rain, a soaked commute, or a dog that has run through wet grass. Hair hangs in strings; clothes and drip; a bird’s feathers stick out the wrong way. The word is kindly and a little sorry, not cruel: you are describing a sorry sight, not calling the person lazy. It is more at home in stories and everyday talk than in a formal report. Though actually it is stronger than just wet: a person can be wet and still neat. Bedraggled adds the mess — dragged through water and dirt, then left looking worn. You can use it of people, animals, and also of things, like a bedraggled flag or a bedraggled bunch of flowers.
濕透又邋遢的、狼狽的（尤其是被雨淋過）
組成be- (thoroughly) + draggle (to make wet and dirty by dragging) + -ed. Draggle itself grew from drag, with a small ending that means “again and again, a little at a time”.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
bedraggledadj/bɪˈdɹæɡl̩d/
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Wet, limp, and unkempt; in disarray due to being doused with water, exposed to the elements, etc.
- A low rumbling sound was heard; a subterraneous hum; and then all held their breaths; as bedraggled with trailing ropes, and harpoons, and lances, a vast form shot lengthwise, but obliquely from the sea.
- She came at night, and in a storm, with only two attendants, and stood before a peasant’s hut, tired, bedraggled, soaked with rain, “the red print of her lost crown still girdling her brow,” and implored admittance—and was refused!
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Decaying, decrepit or dilapidated.
- She is only coming to gloat over my bedraggled and flowerless borders and to sing the praises of her own detestably over-cultivated garden. I'm sick of being told that it's the envy of the neighbourhood; it's like everything else that belongs to her—her car, her dinner-parties, even her headaches, they are all superlative; no one else ever had anything like them.
- It was a tall, shabby building, that cannot have been painted for years, and it had so bedraggled an air that the houses on each side of it looked neat and clean.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。