0 (especially of cloth or paper) badly torn -- （尤指布料或紙張）破爛的，破舊的
The flag was tattered and threadbare. 這面旗破爛不堪。
These bureaucratic structures, tattered though they may seem, constitute the political infrastructure that suggests the presence of the state.
While being used, the "toilet" was usually surrounded by a piece of rotten wood, or tattered cloth, in order to preserve some privacy.
With our tattered sample of observations, this is as far as we can go towards allowing for country-fixed effects.
They wore tattered clothes and their diets largely comprised potatoes and beans, insufficient in calories, vitamins, and minerals.
Most of the child's head has been demolished, emptied of brain and bone, leaving only the tattered, hairy skin of his scalp, which falls in loose folds like fabric.
Their tattered clothes identify their class origins.
It is then an easy step for those who have seized control of the tattered remnants of the economy to convert benevolent nepotism into high-level corruption.
There was a lot of misery there, as one could see from the tattered curtains—apologies for curtains.
