Parents, fearing ever shabbier public schools, have another reason to think about moving out of state.

担心公立学校变得更加破旧的家长们又有一个理由搬出加州了。

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Today, five years later, Ratti Bai's sari was even shabbier, her hair even more gray and her eyes twice as dazed.

五年以后的今天，拉蒂巴姨身上的纱丽甚至更破旧了，就连头发也比以前花白了很多，眼睛也花了两倍。

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All these things are beginning to affect Italy's justly acclaimed quality of life. Infrastructure is getting shabbier.

所有这一切都开始对意大利素来广受好评的生活质量产生影响。

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Nor has the breathing-space they afforded been used to clean up all of the shabbier corporate practices.

ECONOMIST: Malaysia

Now the neighborhoods became shabbier, and Con and Jerry seemed more conspicuous.

NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

They will have to live farther away from where they work, send their children to overcrowded schools, and end up in shabbier hospitals.

ECONOMIST: California's economy