shabby

• adj. 破舊的；卑鄙的；吝嗇的；低劣的

等同於 scab,疥癬，瘡疤，-y,形容詞後綴。引申詞義髒的，破敗的，破舊的。

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.
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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.

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

真搞不懂為什麽這個人就該受到如此不公正的待遇。

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2. Selling their fans short in such a shabby way is not acceptable.

如此過分地怠慢他們的崇拜者令人無法接受。

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3. He walked past her into a tiny, shabby room.

他從她身邊經過，走進了一個狹小簡陋的房間。

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4. The flat was small but attractive, if rather shabby.

雖然有些老舊，這仍不失為一個漂亮的小公寓。

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5. He looked unshaven, shabby, and down-and-out.

他看上去胡子拉碴、衣衫襤褸、窮困潦倒。

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