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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The city into which I was born was poorer, shabbier, and more isolated than it had ever been before in its two-thousand-year history.

我出生的城市在她2000年的历史中从不曾如此贫穷、破败、孤立。

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The black box grew shabbier each year: by now it was no longer completely black but splintered badly along one side to show the original wood color, and in some places faded or stained.

黑箱一年年变得越来越破旧了：到现在它都已经不再是纯黑的了，有一侧碎裂得很厉害，现出了木头本色，而在有些地方则不是褪色就是变色了。

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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