1. 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。
2. 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。
3. 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。
4. 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。
5. As we can see in the picture, a school built for migrant workers' children is much shabbier and poorly furnished compared with a key public school. 正如图中所示，一所专门为外来子弟所建的学校相比某重点中学显得十分破旧矮小。
