shabby

• adj. 破旧的；卑鄙的；吝啬的；低劣的

等同于 scab,疥癣，疮疤，-y,形容词后缀。引申词义脏的，破败的，破旧的。

1. showing signs of wear and tear;

"a ratty old overcoat"

"shabby furniture"

"an old house with dirty windows and tatty curtains"

2. mean and unworthy and despicable;

"shabby treatment"

shabby

shabby: [17] Etymologically, shabby means ‘scabby’. It comes from a now obsolete shab, which denoted ‘scab’, and also metaphorically ‘disreputable fellow’. It was the native equivalent to Old Norse *skabbr ‘scab’, from which English gets scab.
=> scab

shabby (adj.)

1660s, of persons, "poorly dressed," with -y (2) + shab "a low fellow" (1630s), literally "scab" (now only dialectal in the literal sense, in reference to a disease of sheep), from Old English sceabb (the native form of the Scandinavian word that yielded Modern English scab; also see sh-). Similar formation in Middle Dutch schabbich, German schäbig "shabby."

Of clothes, furniture, etc., "of mean appearance, no longer new or fresh" from 1680s; meaning "inferior in quality" is from 1805. Figurative sense "contemptibly mean" is from 1670s. Related: Shabbily; shabbiness. Shabby-genteel "run-down but trying to keep up appearances, retaining in present shabbiness traces of former gentility," first recorded 1754. Related: Shabaroon "disreputable person," c. 1700.

low, mean, cheap, shabby

这些形容词均有"卑鄙的，卑贱的，卑下的"之意。

low： 指行为卑鄙、可耻、下文明，可引申指庸俗。

mean： 暗示狠毒、贪婪、缺乏尊严感等为人们所不耻的卑鄙、自私、渺小的行为。

cheap： 侧旨人或物的品质低劣下贱。

shabby： 指行为的不公和卑劣而使人感到不屑和轻蔑。

She wore shabby old jeans and a T-shirt.

她穿着一条破旧的牛仔裤和一件T恤衫。

牛津词典

The old man was shabby and unkempt.

老头蓬头垢面，衣衫褴褛。

牛津词典

She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him.

她先前待他不好，这时候想弥补一下。

牛津词典

shabbily dressed

衣衫褴褛

牛津词典

I think you were very shabbily treated.

要我说，你真是受大委屈了。

牛津词典

His clothes were old and shabby...

他的衣服又旧又破。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

He walked past her into a tiny, shabby room.

他从她身边经过，走进了一个狭小简陋的房间。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...a shabby, tall man with dark eyes.

一个黑眼睛、高个子、穿得破破烂烂的男子

柯林斯高阶英语词典

It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment...

真搞不懂为什么这个人就该受到如此不公正的待遇。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

I knew it was shabby of me, but I couldn't help feeling slightly disappointed.

我知道我不应该这么想，但我还是不禁觉得有点失望。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

They're ostentatiously shabby, his collars never clean and his tie's never tied properly.

他的衣服故意弄得十分寒酸, 领子从来都不平整,领带也从来不系好.

辞典例句

The boy's shabby appearance has gotten under his father's skin.

这男孩寒酸的样子使他老爸很不高兴.

期刊摘选

Scholars in decline in the past looked miserable, and shabby.

旧时的破落文人大都一幅寒酸相.

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He is a tramp in shabby old clothes.

他是个衣衫褴褛的流浪者.

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He even plays a shabby trick on his father.

他甚至同他的父亲玩弄卑鄙的手段.

《简明英汉词典》

You look shabby in those clothes.

你穿那种衣服显得很蹩脚.

期刊摘选

You look rather shabby in those clothes.

你的衣着显得有点寒酸.

《简明英汉词典》

He was often poken fun at at school because of his shabby clothes.

因为他衣着寒酸,在学校时常受人嘲笑.

期刊摘选

Leaving a decent job to deal with these shabby things, are you looking for trouble?

放着好好的工作不做,成天弄这些破东西, 这不是找病 吗 .

期刊摘选

In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together.

一群小个子黄种人,穿的是破烂不堪的绿军装,蹲在车上, 挤成了一团.

英汉文学

If the strange knight was shocked at her shabby appearance, he politely gave no indication.

如果这位陌生的骑士被她狼狈的装扮所震惊, 那么他很礼貌地没有任何表示.

期刊摘选

The other house got old and shabby, and that cut into the value.

周围的房子都破旧不堪, 这使得他房子的价值降低了.

《简明英汉词典》

Asa and Elvira run a shabby religions mission in Kansas City.

阿萨和埃尔维拉在堪萨斯城办了一个寒酸的传教机构.

辞典例句

My sister, in a staring red dress, was accosted by a swarm of shabby panhandlers.

身穿惹眼红裙的姊姊, 被一群褴褛的乞丐兜搭讨钱.

期刊摘选

His well cut suit, shabby now, told me his story.

他那身剪裁合身而现在已经破旧了的衣服说明了他的经历.

辞典例句

He wrote off a pretty shabby kind of life by killing himself.

他以自杀结束了他那相当不体面的一生.

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