Shabby
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[编辑] GRE 红宝书
- adj.破烂的;卑鄙的
- [英] adj.破烂的 ( dilapidated) ; 卑鄙的 ( despicable, contemptible)
- [例] a shabby armchair ( 破旧的扶手椅)
[编辑] Webster Collegiate
adjective (shabbier; -est)
- Etymology: obsolete English shab a low fellow
- Date: 1669
- 1. clothed with worn or seedy garments <a shabby hobo>
- 2.
- a. threadbare and faded from wear <a shabby sofa>
- b. ill-kept ; dilapidated <a shabby neighborhood>
- 3.
- a. mean, despicable, contemptible <must feel shabby…because of his compromises — Nat Hentoff>
- b. ungenerous, unfair <laments the shabby way in which this country often treated a poet — Paul Engle>
- c. inferior in quality <shabby reasoning>
- ? shabbily adverb
- ? shabbiness noun