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poorly

/poor-lee/US // ˈpʊər li //UK // (ˈpʊəlɪ, ˈpɔː-) //

差劲地,糟糕的是,差劲的,差劲

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Definitions

adv.副词 adverb
  1. 1
    • : in a poor manner or way: The team played poorly.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : in poor health; somewhat ill: I hear she's been poorly.

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Examples

  • However, as Nuismer, Bull and other researchers acknowledge, a poorly designed live virus could evolve after it was released and potentially become a pathogen again — the opposite of what researchers want.

  • Not surprisingly, the politicians most eager to claim the mantle of war leaders have performed poorly and lost public support.

  • N-tuples, however, did poorly for the intricacies of a face, whose appearance also varies with illumination, tilt of the head, facial expression, and the subject’s age.

  • Because he didn’t want poorly maintained machines to give his company a bad name, he rented the machines to his customers and included both service and support.

  • People who might have been helped by these researchers’ work will become disillusioned by technologies that perform poorly when it matters most.

  • Pitchfork called him a “a rap-obsessed misfit from a summer camp who freestyles poorly” who is “ridiculous without knowing it.”

  • Opened in Sept. 2002, this “poorly managed” detention facility was the second site opened by the CIA after the 9/11 attacks.

  • The problem, of course, is that the “me vs. not me” response can serve us poorly in the more social sense.

  • And the criticism is always poorly packaged as concern or some sad excuse for a compliment.

  • Their fighting was poorly coordinated, their weapons were vintage pieces, mostly seized from the Ukrainian military.

  • Scientists tell us that from the point of view of optics the human eye is a clumsy instrument poorly contrived for its work.

  • The door opened, and there, poorly dressed in blouse and skirt, stood Miss Anne.

  • It is a poorly appointed hotel that does not now have a garage of some sort, and in many cases, necessary supplies are available.

  • It 67 was that the piece which reads smoothly seldom acts well; whereas a play that gets over the footlights usually reads poorly.

  • The Liberal candidate wanted to address the colliers in one of the Lanarkshire towns; but his meeting was very poorly attended.