Many are shabby and a long way from shops, jobs and power.
许多地区很破旧，而且远离商店、工作和能源供应。
He comes from a loving family who occupy the ground floor of a shabby apartment in southern Xian, where his father sells remedies to people too poor to afford a doctor.
他来自一个充满爱意的家庭，家里人居住在西安南部一栋破烂的公寓的地下室中，他的父亲靠兜售一些药方给无力就医的穷人为生。
After some further toil, his efforts were rewarded, and a very shabby door-mat lay exposed to view.
经过一番努力，他的努力得到了回报，一块非常破旧的门垫露了出来。
Her fantasies include painting the classrooms of shabby schools, leaving hot meals on kitchen tables in the poor part of town, and giving money secretly to a proud old lady.
她的幻想包括粉刷破旧学校的教室，在镇上贫困地区的餐桌上留下热腾腾的饭菜，秘密地给一位自视清高的老太太送钱。
She wore shabby old jeans and a T-shirt.
她穿着一条破旧的牛仔裤和一件T恤衫。
It came from an unglazed window-opening in a shabby little hut.
声音是从一间简陋的小屋里开着的一扇没有玻璃的窗户里传出来的。
He was a common figure in the streets and lived in some shabby neighborhood of tenement houses where there were hens and chickens among the cobblestones.
他在街上也算小有名气，住在一座廉租房里，与鹅卵石路上的母鸡和小鸡为伴。
When I stepped ashore in London my clothes were ragged and shabby, and I had only a dollar in my pocket.
我在伦敦上岸时，衣衫褴褛，口袋里只有一美元。
The baker was standing behind his counter, disputing the items of a bill with a shabby-genteel young woman.
面包店老板站在柜台后面，正跟一个衣衫褴褛的、斯文的年轻女人为一笔账而争论。
The Hanzheng Street was originally a narrow, shabby street.
汉正街原来是破旧、窄小的一条旧街。
They walked into a windowless room with shabby carpets fluorescent lights and three rows of metal folding chairs.
他们走进了一个没有窗户、铺着破旧地毯的房间，里面有几盏日光灯和三排金属折叠椅。
This is where Lionel Logue comes in - a bullish Australian with Bohemian manners and shabby premises on Harley Street.
莱纳尔·罗格就这样出场了——一位放浪不羁趾高气昂的澳大利亚人呆在哈利街的一间破旧房屋内。
Schroeder Plaza bore little resemblance to the shabby policestations seen on TV cop shows. It was a sleek and modern building, brightenedby large windows and skylights.
这里和警察剧里破旧的警察局完全不同，外观气派，充满现代感，开阔的窗户和天窗让楼内十分敞亮。
He was a common figure in the streets and lived in some shabby neigh- bourhood of tenement houses where there were hens and chickens among the cobble stones.
他在街上也算小有名气，住在一座破旧的出租公寓里，与鹅卵石堆砌的鸡舍为伴。
Even the parking lot of a three-star hotel we stayed in was full of fancy cars and that made my Jeep Compass look shabby.
即使我们住在一个三星级酒店，停车场到处是豪华轿车，我的Compass吉普看上去很寒酸。
Still, it’s not too shabby for a couple of people who churned out an accidental product in the name of love—for the Web, that is.
即便如此，当我们审视这几个人以热爱网络的名义一不小心鼓捣出的产物，也不能说它太过寒碜吧。这，就是博客了。
Two points stand out: Steve was lead inventor on just over 10% of the 313 cited patents on which he is named — a significant minority, but not too shabby!
有两点最为突出：在这313项专利中，只有略多于10%的专利主发明人是乔布斯，在全部专利中只占少数，但并不寒碜！
They played in an alley of the garden bordered with a few shabby fruit-trees.
她们常在那园里的小路上玩耍，小路旁栽有几棵长得不好的果树。
Its glittering bulk, squeezed into a narrow plot beneath the Acropolis hill, contrasts sharply with shabby blocks of flats nearby and the pale-coloured rocky slope.
博物馆外观耀眼夺目，位于卫城山脚一块狭窄的地基上，与周边破败的一幢幢公寓和苍白的山脊形成了鲜明的对比。
The old synagogue has been beautifully restored as a museum, but the surrounding streets are shabby.
过去的犹太教堂已被翻新成漂亮的博物馆，但周围的街道依然破旧。
In a corner, a man in shabby clothes dozed in a comfortable chair.
在一个角落里，一个衣着褴褛的男人正坐在舒适的椅子上打盹。
The servant, who cleaned his boots, thought they certainly were a shabby pair to be worn by such a rich gentleman, for he had not yet bought any new ones.
替他擦皮靴的那个茶房觉得，像他这样一位有钱的绅士，他的这双皮鞋真是旧得太滑稽了。但是新的他还来不及买。
About a mile from my house there's a slightly shabby strip mall housing a Dollar Store, a Ross Dress for Less, and something called a 'Grocery Outlet'.
离我家一英里的地方有个有点儿破旧的商户群，那里有“一元店”，“罗斯廉价服饰”，还有个叫“杂货经销店”的商店。
Cooking equipment was shown on the floor, the decor seemed shabby, medicines were left on a shelf with no cabinet and the pantry seemed rudimentary.
厨房设备摊在地板上，装潢简陋，药品遗留在架子上，没有橱柜而且食品储藏室刚刚成形。
TO ENGLISH ears, the word "compromise" often has a shabby ring.
“妥协”这个词对于英国人来讲通常是个不好的词。
His cynical breaking of a promise to be bound by federal campaign-finance limits was shabby by any standards.
他玩世不恭的打破承诺对于任何标准来说都是不公平的，且注定会受限于联邦竞选基金。
Image above: the facade of the fireplace was originally covered in a decoupage of broken plates (a little too shabby chic for our tastes).
上图：壁炉表面原本覆盖的是盘子的碎片(对于我们的喜好来说太邋遢了一点)。
That is a 61% increase in the past two years; hardly shabby, but nowhere near the increases seen in the past.
在过去两年内也达到了61％的增长率;但几乎可怜，远不及过去的上升。
That is a 61% increase in the past two years; hardly shabby, but nowhere near the increases seen in the past.
在过去两年内也达到了61％的增长率;但几乎可怜，远不及过去的上升。
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