shabby
英 ['??b?]
美[???bi]
- adj. 破舊的；卑鄙的；吝嗇的；低劣的
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詞態(tài)變化
比較級:?shabbier;最高級:?shabbiest;副詞:?shabbily;名詞:?shabbiness;
助記提示
shabby?卑鄙的?——傻比
2. scab => shabby.
2. scab => shabby.
中文詞源
shabby 破爛的，破舊的
等同于 scab,疥癬，瘡疤，-y,形容詞后綴。引申詞義臟的，破敗的，破舊的。
英英釋意
- 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"
英文詞源
- 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 sch?big "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.
同義詞辨析
low, mean, cheap, shabby
這些形容詞均有"卑鄙的，卑賤的，卑下的"之意。
low： 指行為卑鄙、可恥、下文明，可引申指庸俗。
mean： 暗示狠毒、貪婪、缺乏尊嚴感等為人們所不恥的卑鄙、自私、渺小的行為。
cheap： 側旨人或物的品質(zhì)低劣下賤。
shabby： 指行為的不公和卑劣而使人感到不屑和輕蔑。
實用場景例句
- She wore shabby old jeans and a T-shirt.
- 她穿著一條破舊的牛仔褲和一件T恤衫。
牛津詞典
- The old man was shabby and unkempt.
- 老頭蓬頭垢面，衣衫襤褸。
牛津詞典
- She tried to make up for her shabby treatment of him.
- 她先前待他不好，這時候想彌補一下。
牛津詞典
- shabbily dressed
- 衣衫襤褸
牛津詞典
- I think you were very shabbily treated.
- 要我說，你真是受大委屈了。
牛津詞典
- His clothes were old and shabby...
- 他的衣服又舊又破。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- He walked past her into a tiny, shabby room.
- 他從她身邊經(jīng)過，走進了一個狹小簡陋的房間。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- ...a shabby, tall man with dark eyes.
- 一個黑眼睛、高個子、穿得破破爛爛的男子
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment...
- 真搞不懂為什么這個人就該受到如此不公正的待遇。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- I knew it was shabby of me, but I couldn't help feeling slightly disappointed.
- 我知道我不應該這么想，但我還是不禁覺得有點失望。
柯林斯高階英語詞典
- 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, 領子從來都不平整,領帶也從來不系好.
辭典例句
- The boy's shabby appearance has gotten under his father's skin.
- 這男孩寒酸的樣子使他老爸很不高興.
期刊摘選
- Scholars in decline in the past looked miserable, and shabby.
- 舊時的破落文人大都一幅寒酸相.
期刊摘選
- He is a tramp in shabby old clothes.
- 他是個衣衫襤褸的流浪者.
期刊摘選
- He even plays a shabby trick on his father.
- 他甚至同他的父親玩弄卑鄙的手段.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- You look shabby in those clothes.
- 你穿那種衣服顯得很蹩腳.
期刊摘選
- You look rather shabby in those clothes.
- 你的衣著顯得有點寒酸.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- He was often poken fun at at school because of his shabby clothes.
- 因為他衣著寒酸,在學校時常受人嘲笑.
期刊摘選
- Leaving a decent job to deal with these shabby things, are you looking for trouble?
- 放著好好的工作不做,成天弄這些破東西, 這不是找病 嗎 .
期刊摘選
- In the trucks little yellow men in shabby greenish uniforms were squatting, jammed close together.
- 一群小個子黃種人,穿的是破爛不堪的綠軍裝,蹲在車上, 擠成了一團.
英漢文學
- If the strange knight was shocked at her shabby appearance, he politely gave no indication.
- 如果這位陌生的騎士被她狼狽的裝扮所震驚, 那么他很禮貌地沒有任何表示.
期刊摘選
- The other house got old and shabby, and that cut into the value.
- 周圍的房子都破舊不堪, 這使得他房子的價值降低了.
《簡明英漢詞典》
- Asa and Elvira run a shabby religions mission in Kansas City.
- 阿薩和埃爾維拉在堪薩斯城辦了一個寒酸的傳教機構.
辭典例句
- My sister, in a staring red dress, was accosted by a swarm of shabby panhandlers.
- 身穿惹眼紅裙的姊姊, 被一群襤褸的乞丐兜搭討錢.
期刊摘選
- His well cut suit, shabby now, told me his story.
- 他那身剪裁合身而現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)破舊了的衣服說明了他的經(jīng)歷.
辭典例句
- He wrote off a pretty shabby kind of life by killing himself.
- 他以自殺結束了他那相當不體面的一生.
辭典例句