decrepit
音标：
英音/ dɪˈkrepɪt / 美音/ dɪˈkrepɪt /
听听基本释意：
外刊例句：
Equally unclear is how North Korea — the most decrepit economy in Northeast Asia — is funding these super-weapons.
同样不清楚的是，朝鲜这个东北亚最衰弱的经济体是如何为这些超级武器提供资金的。
—Washington Times
Trump sought to keep the headquarters in downtown D.C. at the decrepit J. Edgar Hoover Building on Pennsylvania Avenue NW, not far from the hotel he owned.
特朗普试图将总部保留在华盛顿特区市中心宾夕法尼亚大道西北边破旧的埃德加·胡佛大厦，距离他拥有的酒店不远。
—Washington Post
It has been highly active in eastern Ukraine where it drove the Ukrainian army out of Bakhmut, acquiring a fearsome reputation not shared by the often decrepit and poorly-led regular Russian army.
它在乌克兰东部非常活跃，将乌克兰军队赶出了巴赫穆特，获得了通常破旧且领导不善的俄罗斯正规军所没有的可怕声誉。
—BBC
基本释意：
adjective
worn and broken down by hard use
衰老的；破旧的
同义词：
creaky,derelict,flea-bitten,run-down,woebegone,debile,feeble,infirm,rickety,sapless,weak,weakly
短释义：
Decrepit implies that something or someone is a weak, and run down — practically falling apart. It’s really not a nice word to use about a person. If you are trying to say the same thing about a person, but more nicely, you might use the word, feeble, which means weak, but not disastrously falling apart.
你家街区拐角处那栋大楼倒塌了？它已经破旧了。住在那里的老人，如果年老体弱的话，也是如此。破旧意味着因过度使用而损坏。
长释义：
Decrepit implies that something or someone is a weak, and run down — practically falling apart. It’s really not a nice word to use about a person. If you are trying to say the same thing about a person, but more nicely, you might use the word, feeble, which means weak, but not disastrously falling apart.
衰老意味着某物或某人是软弱的、衰弱的——几乎崩溃了。这确实不是一个用来形容一个人的好词。如果你想对一个人说同样的话，但更好听的话，你可以使用“feble”这个词，意思是软弱，但不会灾难性地崩溃。
文学例句：
The pews were decrepit, the bills were once so in arrears the electricity was nearly turned off, and the padre hadn’t installed air-conditioning, despite summer temperatures that reach 120 degrees.
长椅已经破旧，账单一度被拖欠，电力几乎被切断，尽管夏季气温高达 120 度，但神父也没有安装空调。
—Enrique’s Journey by Sonia Nazario
The decrepit lawyers dressed in black who during other times had besieged Colonel Aureliano Buendía and who now were controlled by the banana company dismissed those demands with decisions that seemed like acts of magic.
那些身着黑衣的衰弱律师以前曾围攻奥雷里亚诺·布恩迪亚上校，现在已被香蕉公司控制，他们做出的决定似乎像魔术一样驳回了这些要求。
—One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
I use the sword to put down the rest of the decrepit pack.
我用剑放下了剩下的破旧背包。
—Dread Nation by Justina Ireland
词源：
decrepit (adj.)”broken down in health, weakened, especially by age,” mid-15c., from Old French decrepit (15c., Modern French décrépit), from Latin decrepitus “very old, infirm” (of old men and old animals), from de “down” (see de-) + *crepitus, past participle of crepare “to crack, break” (see raven). The literal sense of the Latin word is uncertain. Related: Decrepitly.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译（机器翻译比较难翻，参考着看）
decrepit (adj.)“健康状况恶化，衰弱，特别是由于年龄的增长”，15世纪中期，源自古法语 decrepit (15世纪，现代法语 décrépit)，源自拉丁语 decrepitus “非常老的、体弱多病的”（指老人和老人）老动物），源自 de “down”（参见 de-）+ *crepitus，crepare 的过去分词“裂开、打破”（参见 raven）。这个拉丁词的字面意义是不确定的。相关：Dcrepitly.相关条目及更多
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