torn, old, and in generally poor condition; in tatters 破旧的,衣衫褴褛的 an old woman in tattered clothes. 一个衣衫褴褛的老妇人。
语源
Middle English (in the sense 'dressed in decoratively slashed or jagged clothing'): apparently originally from the noun tatter 'scrap of cloth' + -ed; later treated as a past participle