shabby

英['??b?] 美[???bi]

反義詞decent

比較級:?shabbier;最高級:?shabbiest;副詞:?shabbily;名詞:?shabbiness;

shabby?卑鄙的?——傻比
2. scab => shabby.

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。

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.

1. 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。

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。

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。