Picture a shirt that has not been ripped once but worn and torn a hundred times, until it hangs off a person in loose strips that move in the wind. Two things are true of that shirt at the same time: it cannot do its job any more, and it is all still there for everyone to see. Keep both halves. The cloth gives you the plain noun and the phrase about clothes; the same picture laid over a plan or a person's good name gives you the meaning you will meet most often in the news.
可以想成一件襯衫，不是被劃破一刀，而是穿了又扯、扯了又穿上百次，最後一條一條垂在身上，在風裡晃。這件襯衫同時成立兩件事：它已經沒辦法發揮作用了，而且它整個還在那裡，所有人都看得到。這兩半都要記住。布的那一半，給了你「破布」這個名詞，還有講衣服的 in tatters。把同一張圖蓋到一個計畫或一個人的名聲上，就得到新聞裡最常見的那個用法。
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