shoddy

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a. 用长弹毛做的, 以次充好的 n. 长弹毛, 软再生毛, 赝品

发音

UK /ˈʃɒd.i/
其它
UK /ˈʃɔd.i/
CA /ˈʃɑ.di/
US /ˈʃɑ.di/
CA /ˈʃɒ.ɾi/
US /ˈʃɒ.ɾi/

词形变化

shoddies 复数 shoddies shoddier 比较级 shoddier shoddiest shoddiest 最高级

教材释义与例句

名词

赝品；冒牌货；假装粗俗

形容词

假冒的；劣质的；卑劣的

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A low-grade cloth made from by-products of wool processing, or from recycled wool.

    可数 不可数
  2. 2.

    Worthless goods.

    可数 过时 不可数
  3. 3.

    Vulgar pretence or sham.

    非正式 可数 过时 不可数
adj.
  1. 1.

    Of poor quality or construction.

    劣等

    Near-synonym: spotty

    Do not settle for shoddy knives if you are serious about cooking.

  2. 2.

    Poor; low.

    Do not settle for shoddy quality in your kitchen knives.

    Near-synonym: spotty

  3. 3.

    Pretentious, sham, counterfeit.

    过时
  4. 4.

    Ambitious by reason of newly-acquired wealth; nouveau riche.

    过时

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

wool
形容词

同义词 4

dirty sordid tawdry cheapjack

近义相关 2

corrupt inferior

相关短语

shoddy fever [医] 旧毛绒热

词源

* Unknown, but possibly from shoad (“loose stone and rubble; fragments”), equivalent to shoad + -y; or possibly from the Arabic word for reuse. Shoad was of inferior quality for building. * The modern adjectival sense was apparently derived from inexpensive shoddy (“fabric from wool-processing byproduct”), which was not really suitable for (but was sometimes still used for) things such as military uniforms at the beginning of the US Civil War.

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