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be a shadow/shell of your former self idiom to have less health or strength, or less influence, than you did before: (健康、力量或影响)不如从前 He came home from hospital cured of the disease but a shadow of his former self.他病愈出院回家,但身体已大不如从前。 When she did play, she was a shell of her former self. Decades of war have left the army a shell of its former self. The university is a shadow of its former self. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Not fit & healthy be at death's dooridiom bed clinically obese complain of something critical list deconditioned frailty gaunt groggy hollow hollow-eyed infirm poorly rough run someone/something down take to your bedidiom undernourishment unhealthful unhealthily wan |