shabby
英 ['ʃæbɪ]
美 [ˈʃæbi]
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shabby 卑鄙的 ——傻比
2. scab => shabby.
shabby 破烂的，破旧的等同于 scab,疥癣，疮疤，-y,形容词后缀。引申词义脏的，破败的，破旧的。
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- 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.
- 1. 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。
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- 2. Selling their fans short in such a shabby way is not acceptable.
- 如此过分地怠慢他们的崇拜者令人无法接受。
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- 3. 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。
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- 4. The flat was small but attractive, if rather shabby.
- 虽然有些老旧，这仍不失为一个漂亮的小公寓。
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- 5. He looked unshaven, shabby, and down-and-out.
- 他看上去胡子拉碴、衣衫褴褛、穷困潦倒。
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