misc. miserable and shabby
她似乎宁肯坐那辆简陋寒酸的马车。
她的母亲最先看出来,第二辆车和第一辆车不一样,它不是一辆简陋寒酸的马车,而是一辆漂亮整洁的单马双轮马车,又叫狗车,漆光发亮,设备齐全。
Her mother perceived, for the first time, that the second vehicle was not a humble conveyance like the first, but a spick-and-span gig or dogcart, highly varnished and equipped.
它就挂在衣架上,夹在劣质的军用风雨衣和各式各样寒酸的羊毛大衣当中,然而它却像荆棘丛中的一朵玫瑰。
It was hanging on a rack at a secondhand clothing store in Northampton Mass, crammed in with shoddy trench coats and an assortment of sad, woolen overcoats — a rose among thorns.
The kings, by our standards for kings, are really very poor.
这些国王,按照我们对财富的标准,真的是非常寒酸
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