Poorly
['pɔːlɪ;'pʊəlɪ] or ['pɔli]
解釋/意思:
(adv.) In a poor manner or condition; without plenty, or sufficiency, or suitable provision for comfort; as, to live poorly.
(adv.) With little or no success; indifferently; with little profit or advantage; as, to do poorly in business.
(adv.) Meanly; without spirit.
(adv.) Without skill or merit; as, he performs poorly.
(a.) Somewhat ill; indisposed; not in health.
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例句/造句/用法:
- She said her lady was but poorly, and kept her own room a good deal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- We get on poorly, said William; we're all out of work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- The best-looking among us will not look very well, lurking at a corner, and Bradley came out of that disadvantage very poorly indeed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Very small, very low in the ceiling, very poorly furnished--but, oh, so neat! 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar termMinnie, Minnie, me very poorly! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- Personal initiative and individual genius are poorly regarded: many socialists are suspicious of originality. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Elizabeth's congratulations were given with a sincerity, a warmth, a delight, which words could but poorly express. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- You were poorly, and I worried about you till I fell sick myself. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- She is poorly to-day. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- While he was yet undecided, she had quitted England; the news of his marriage reached her, and her hopes, poorly nurtured blossoms, withered and fell. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- To devote my life to his happiness was to thank him poorly, and what had I wished for the other night but some new means of thanking him? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Beth is very poorly, Mother says. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It's made him quite poorly. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Mr. Omer had taken it so much to heart, his daughter told me, that he had been very low and poorly all day, and had gone to bed without his pipe. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I didn't know that, he forgot, I suppose, and, as your grandpa was poorly, I didn't like to worry him by asking, though I did want some. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- It was poorly furnished as a sitting-room, and it looked out on the backs of houses. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- The bare walls had been coloured green, evidently by an unskilled hand, and were poorly decorated with a few prints. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- I suppose if she's so poorly she won't go back to Bellomont in the morning, and I can come and see her then. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- These two printers I found poorly qualified for their business. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- John should na ha' left me, and me so poorly. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- But very poorly, I'm afraid. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
- The speaker was a poorly-dressed young woman with a bundle under her arm. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- It makes me very nervous and poorly, to be thwarted so in my own family, and to have neighbours who think of themselves before anybody else. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- Aunt and Flo were poorly all the way, and liked to be let alone, so when I had done what I could for them, I went and enjoyed myself. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But the child who had done so much for him and had been so poorly repaid, was never out of his mind. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- He found waiting for him, in the hall, a poorly clad but delicate and interesting-looking little boy. 威爾基·柯林斯. 月亮寶石.
- I am just learning it, and while I understand it fairly well I speak it very poorly. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- The doctor sent me word that he was poorly in health himself, but that he would call, if possible, the next morning. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- An ugly woman, very poorly clothed, hurried in while I was glancing at them, and coming straight up to the mother, said, Jenny! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He is poorly dressed, and yet does not appear to be a labourer. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歸來記.
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