shabby
英 ['??b?]
美[???bi]
- adj. 破舊的；卑鄙的；吝嗇的；低劣的
低頻詞CET6TEM4IELTSGRE考研常用詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
比較級(jí):?shabbier;最高級(jí):?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.
雙語例句
- 1. It was hard to say why the man deserved such shabby treatment.
- 真搞不懂為什么這個(gè)人就該受到如此不公正的待遇。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. He walked past her into a tiny, shabby room.
- 他從她身邊經(jīng)過，走進(jìn)了一個(gè)狹小簡陋的房間。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The flat was small but attractive, if rather shabby.
- 雖然有些老舊，這仍不失為一個(gè)漂亮的小公寓。
來自柯林斯例句
- 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。
來自柯林斯例句