shabby是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 破旧的; 衣衫褴褛的; 卑鄙的, 不公平的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基的《白痴》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Getting anxious at last when no money was forthcoming, and alarmed above all by his patient's appetite, he presented him with a pair of old gai-ters and a shabby cloak and packed him off to Russia, third class.
-- I did not take stock of him very carefully, but he seemed to be dressed in some shabby summer dust-coat, much too light for the season.
-- But the prince only looked at the bright side; he did not turn the coat and see the shabby lining.
在赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯的《隐形人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Cuss began abruptly, as he entered the shabby little study.
-- He was a short, stout person in an extraordinarily shabby top hat, and he appeared to be very much out of breath.
在格林兄弟的《格林童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'I should be very silly,' said he, 'if I went to that shabby house, and left this charming place'; so he went into the smart house, and ate and drank at his ease, and forgot the bird, and his country too.
-- When they came to the village, the son followed the fox's counsel, and without looking about him went to the shabby inn and rested there all night at his ease.
-- Then thought he to himself, 'It will be a very droll thing to bring away such a fine bird in this shabby cage'; so he opened the door and took hold of it and put it into the golden cage.
-- So when the bride had done drinking, and would have got upon Falada again, the maid said, 'I shall ride upon Falada, and you may have my horse instead'; so she was forced to give up her horse, and soon afterwards to take off her royal clothes and put on her maid's shabby ones.
-- The prince started at this, and said, 'Let me live, and I will change dresses with you; you shall take my royal coat to show to my father, and do you give me your shabby one.'
在戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯的《查太莱夫人的情人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The fine flower of their intimacy was to her rather like an orchid, a bulb stuck parasitic on her tree of life, and pro-ducing, to her eyes, a rather shabby flower.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《小杜丽》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A delicately bent head, a tiny form, a quick little pair of busy hands, and a shabby dress it must needs have been very shabby to look at all so, being so neat were Little Dorrit as she sat at work.
-- His words were remembered and repeated; and tradition afterwards handed down from generation to generation a Marshalsea generation might be calculated as about three months that the shabby old debtor with the soft manner and the white hair, was the Father of the Marshalsea.
-- As if the aspiring city had become puffed up in the very ground on which it stood, the ground had so risen about Bleeding Heart Yard that you got into it down a flight of steps which formed no part of the original approach, and got out of it by a low gateway into a maze of shabby streets, which went about and about, tortuously ascending to the level again.
-- Such was the homily with which he improved and pointed the occasion to the company in the Lodge before turning into the sallow yard again, and going with his own poor shabby dignity past the Collegian in the dressing-gown who had no coat, and past the Collegian in the sea-side slippers who had no shoes, and past the stout greengrocer Collegian in the corduroy knee-breeches who had no cares, and past the lean clerk Collegian in buttonless black who had no hopes, up his own poor shabby staircase to his own poor shabby room.
-- It is certain that the more reduced and necessitous they were, the more pompously the skeleton emerged from its tomb; and that when there was anything particularly shabby in the wind, the skeleton always came out with the ghastliest flourish.
在路易莎·梅·奥尔科特的《小妇人》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- It's like other people, you know, and I always envy girls who do such things, I'm so fond of luxury,' said Meg, trying to decide which of two shabby gowns was the least shabby.
-- Somehow the kind act finished her despondency, and when all the rest went to show themselves to Mrs. Moffat, she saw a happy, bright-eyed face in the mirror, as she laid her ferns against her rippling hair and fastened the roses in the dress that didn't strike her as so very shabby now.
-- Her faith in her mother was a little shaken by the worldly plans attributed to her by Mrs. Moffat, who judged others by herself, and the sensible res-olution to be contented with the simple wardrobe which suited a poor man's daughter was weakened by the unnec-essary pity of girls who thought a shabby dress one of the greatest calamities under heaven.
在赫尔曼·梅尔维尔的《白鲸》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Though I cannot tell why it was exactly that those stage managers, the Fates, put me down for this shabby part of a whaling voyage, when others were set down for magnificent parts in high tragedies, and short and easy parts in genteel comedies, and jolly parts in farces though I cannot tell why this was exactly; yet, now that I recall all the circumstances, I think I can see a little into the springs and motives which being cunningly presented to me under various disguises, induced me to set about performing the part I did, besides cajoling me into the delusion that it was a choice resulting from my own unbiased freewill and discriminating judgment.
-- Within are shabby shelves, ranged round with old decanters, bottles, flasks; and in those jaws of swift destruction, like another cursed Jonah (by which name indeed they called him), bustles a little withered old man, who, for their money, dearly sells the sailors deliriums and death.
-- "Steelkilt glanced round him a moment, and then said: 'I tell you what it is now, Captain, rather than kill ye, and be hung for such a shabby rascal, we won't lift a hand against ye unless ye attack us; but till you say the word about not flogging us, we don't do a hand's turn.'
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《雾都孤儿》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- They were both wrapped in old and shabby outer garments, which might, perhaps, serve the double purpose of protecting their persons from the rain, and sheltering them from observation.
在马克·吐温的《哈克贝利·费恩历险记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Well, early one morning we hid the raft in a good, safe place about two mile below a little bit of a shabby village named Pikesville, and the king he went ashore and told us all to stay hid whilst he went up to town and smelt around to see if anybody had got any wind of the Royal Nonesuch there yet.
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