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Someone who looks raddled looks worn and used up — older than their years, or very tired, with a face that has had a hard time. People mostly use it of a face or a person, not of a thing: the skin looks rough, the eyes look empty. It is not a kind word, and it is stronger than “a bit tired after a long day.” Writers and newspapers use it more than everyday talk. There is often a hint that drink, late nights, or a hard life did it, not only age.
憔悴；看起來蒼老又疲憊（語氣不客氣）
組成From raddle, an old red colouring used to mark sheep. Raddled first meant marked with that red stuff, or made red; later it came to mean looking worn and old.
同家族的字
- raddlethe red marking colour; raddled is the -ed form
原始詞典資料2 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。
raddledadj/ˈɹædl̩d/
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Worn-out and broken-down.
- In the end her divine voice would crack, screaming to foreign ears and antipodal barbarians, and her clever manner would lose all quality, simplified to a few unmistakable knock-down dodges. Then she would be at the fine climax of life and glory, still young and insatiate, but already coarse, hard and raddled, with nothing left to do and nothing left to do it with, the remaining years all before her and the raison d'etre all behind. It would be curious and magnificent and grotesque.
- And overseeing them all, like a raddled old good-ish fairy, is Bill Nighy, playing a superannuated rocker hoping to get a Christmas number one with his cynically repackaged version of Love Is All Around.
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。