真的破布
這一族就是核心畫面本身，還沒有比喻：看得到、摸得到的破布條。
noun · C1
Old torn clothes; also the loose torn pieces that are left of a piece of clothing.
破布、破衣
核心畫面
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…更多收起
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。Two branches
被撕爛的計畫與名聲
把那件破襯衫脫下來，換上一個計畫或一個人的名聲。畫面沒變，變的只是被撕爛的東西。這是教學上的連結，不是說這個用法一定比較晚出現。
noun · B2
If a plan, an agreement, a reputation or a career is in tatters, it has been so badly damaged that almost nothing of it is still working.
全毀、支離破碎