retreads

英 [ˌriːˈtrɛdz]

美 [riˈtrɛdz]

n.  翻新的旧轮胎; (书籍、电影、歌曲等的)翻版
retread的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT （书、电影、歌曲等的）翻版
  If you describe something such as a book, film, or song as aretread, you mean that it contains ideas or elements that have been used before, and that it is not very interesting or original.
  1. His last book, 'Needful Things', was a retread of tired material.
     他的上一本书《必需品》尽在重复些老掉牙的内容。
• 翻新的轮胎
  Aretreadis an old tyre which has been given a new surface or tread and can be used again.

双语例句

• Arer those new tyres or retreads?
  那些是新轮胎还是翻新的旧轮胎？
• I brought in two, sometimes it sounds like it's an army of Bush administration retreads.
  于是，我带来了两个人，这听起来有点像布什政府智囊团的翻版。
• City construction always remakes and retreads geological environment, and geological environment conversely restricts development of city construction.
  城市建设总是在不断地改变与塑造地质环境，而地质环境又制约城市建设的发展，城市建设所引发的环境工程地质问题越来越多。