Shabbiness
['ʃæbinis]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a lack of elegance as a consequence of wearing threadbare or dirty clothing.
整理:保罗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) The quality or state of being sghabby.
整理:佩吉
例句/造句/用法:
- Look at a boy like Ned Silverton--he's really too good to be used to refurbish anybody's social shabbiness. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It seemed as though the prison's poverty, and shabbiness, and dirt, were growing in the sultry atmosphere. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- But when his boyish figure bobbed away, its shabbiness and cheerful patience smote the tears out of her eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The Captain himself was in the last extremity of shabbiness, with large whiskers, and an old, old brown great-coat with no other coat below it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
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