| 词汇 | badly-off |
| 释义 | badly off adjective uk /ˌbæd.li ˈɒf/ us /ˌbæd.li ˈɑːf/worse off | worst off having little money and few of the things you need to live: 生活困难的;穷困的 They're not badly off but they don't have much money to spare.他们并不穷困——只是闲钱不多而已。 badly-off | Business Englishbadly-off adjective ukuscomparativeworse-off | superlativeworst-off in a difficult financial situation: The economy has not been this badly-off in over 40 years. Examples of badly offbadly off We think that a small gain for them can be morally outweighed by a much larger gain for others who are also badly-off. Now, suppose that we must choose between benefiting a well-off person and benefiting a badly-off person. It is extraordinary how these young people have no idea that there are other people who are so badly-off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 This will at long last stop the wicked anomaly of the well-off council tenant being subsidised by the badly-off pensioner living in private accommodation. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Environmental improvements are being effected by charging the badly-off the same as the well-off. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 If the site were closed, or if it were upgraded, where would the present badly-off tenants go? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Although there are some who have a better pension than others, the vast majority of them are very badly-off indeed. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is at this moment of really bad inflation that we have to look after the really badly-off in the community. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 When has private enterprise ever succeeded in housing badly-off people at rents which they can afford and in decent conditions? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 What would happen if the badly-off woman was the one who was receiving only £1,000 just because she was outside the housing action area. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Its unending lamentations, which have been its stock-in-trade for decades, about how badly-off farmers have now virtually made the public deaf to farmers’ legitimate demands and needs. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English If, in addition to that provision of £20,000, he has made and saved another £10,000 he cannot leave that to charity or to aged parents or to badly-off brothers and sisters. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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