This is a shoddy piece of work; it's hardly presentable.

这活儿不像样，拿不出手。

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When I entered the restaurant, he said: “The nice part about having a shoddy memory is I forget how pretty some people are.

我们相约在一间餐厅见面，当我进入餐厅的时候，他说道：“痛苦的回忆里最美妙的部分就是我竟然忘了你是如此的美丽。

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The Japanese are angry at bureaucrats and TEPCO, the company that owns Fukushima Dai-ichi, for a long record of shoddy safety standards and cover-ups.

日本国民因为虚假的安全标准和掩饰问题的长期历史而对官僚和福岛第一核电站的所有者——东京电力公司感到愤怒。

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People in Greater Manchester will pay higher council tax due to a "botched and shoddy deal", a cabinet minister has claimed.

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In September Ecuador's president, Rafael Correa, expelled managers of Odebrecht, a Brazilian engineering company which he accuses of bribery and shoddy construction of a power plant.

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It would be a "mark of shame" for MPs to give in to "some shoddy compromise that a blackmailing government has tried to impose on its own backbenchers", she said.

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