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stale 与 stuffy 用法辨析 stale 多指食品“不新鲜的”、“陈腐的”、“走了味的”。 例句： We had better eat the bread new. It will become stale by tomorrow. 我们最好趁面包新鲜时吃，到明天就不新鲜了。 There was a smell of stale vegetables in the air. 空气中有陈腐蔬菜的气味。
The bread / biscuits / cake had gone stale. 麵包／餅乾／蛋糕已經不新鮮了。 The morning after the party, their apartment smelled of stale cigarette smoke. 派對後的次日早上，他們的公寓裡有一股汙濁的煙味。
Bored with the routine, he found his daily tasks stale and longed for a fresh challenge. 厌倦了这种例行公事，他觉得日常工作索然无味，渴望新的挑战。 金山词霸
“stale”作为形容词，主要用于描述因时间流逝或缺乏新意而变得陈旧、不新鲜或乏味的事物或状态 [4] [10]。 在日常交流中，该词在口语和书面语中均常见，语气上可正式可非正式，多含贬义或中性描述 [3-4]。
having lost originality or newness; lacking in interest through familiarity or overuse; hackneyed; trite a stale joke, stale gossip
A: "Stale" is used to talk about things that are old, especially food - usually it means the food has dried out (like bread) but sometimes things become soft when stale (like potato chips).
stale: [13] Something that is stale has etymologically been allowed to ‘stand’ – so that it is no longer fresh. The word comes from Old French estale ‘stationary’, a derivative of estaler ‘halt’ (from which English ge...
