shoddy

英 ['ʃɒdi] 美 ['ʃɑːdi]

• adj. 劣质的
• n. 软再生毛(织物)；劣质品

英英释义

Noun:

1. reclaimed wool fiber

Adjective:

1. cheap and shoddy;

   "cheapjack moviemaking...that feeds on the low taste of the mob"
   

2. of inferior workmanship and materials;

   "mean little jerry-built houses"
   

3. designed to deceive or mislead either deliberately or inadvertently;

   "the deceptive calm in the eye of the storm"
   "deliberately deceptive packaging"
   "a misleading similarity"
   "statistics can be presented in ways that are misleading"
   "shoddy business practices"
   

例句

用作形容词 (adj.)

1. His essay was a pretty shoddy piece of work.
   他写的文章很蹩脚。
2. Our new washing machine keeps breaking down, and it's entirely due to shoddy workmanship.
   我们的新洗衣机老出毛病

经典引文

• I,..think bad, shallow shoddy work..damnable.

  出自： R. Macaulay

• Russians seeking routine health care face indifferent medical staff and shoddy facilities.

  出自： R. Owen

词汇搭配

• shoddy picker 开纱头机

近反义词

【近义词】

• ragged 衣衫褴褛的
• tattered 破烂的
• careless 粗心的
• slapdash 草率的
• sloppy 肥大的
• low 低的
• inferior 较低的
• low-down 卑鄙的
• cheap 便宜的
• substandard 标准以下的
• poor 可怜的
• trashy 垃圾似的
• lousy 多虱的
• tawdry 廉价而俗丽的...
• jerry-built 偷工减料的
• cheapjack 兜售便宜货的叫卖小贩...
• misleading 令人误解的
• deceptive 骗人的