| 词汇 | ill-equipped |
| 释义 | ill-equipped adjective uk /ˌɪl.ɪˈkwɪpt/ us /ˌɪl.ɪˈkwɪpt/ without the ability, qualities, or equipment to do something: 能力不足的;装备不良的 [ + to infinitive ]He seems to me ill-equipped to cope with the responsibility.我觉得他似乎无力承担这一职责。 ill-equipped forSome kids leave school ill-equipped for adult life.一些孩子对成人生活准备不足就离开学校了。 Inability and awkwardness accident-prone adorkable all thumbsidiom amateurish amateurishly fumbling fumblingly functional illiteracy gauche gauchely inexpertly jack-of-all-trades jack-of-all-trades, master of noneidiom klutzy like a bull in a china shopidiom uncoordinated uneducable unenterprising unequal ungainly ill-equipped | American Dictionaryill-equipped adjective us/ˌɪl·ɪˈkwɪpt/ lacking the ability or equipment necessary to do something well: Young parents are sometimes ill-equipped to cope with a child. ill-equipped | Business Englishill-equipped adjective uk /ˌɪlɪˈkwɪpt/us not having the ability, qualities, or equipment that you need in order to do something : ill-equipped to cope/deal with sthBudget cuts have left the hospitals understaffed and ill-equipped to deal with the recent surge of flu patients. Examples of ill-equippedill-equipped It is not that these economists are ignorant of institutions, rather they are methodologically ill-equipped to deal with them. Many feared democratic regimes would be ill-equipped to impose the kind of economic measures necessary to achieve long-term growth. This is a situation the behavioral, neural, and cognitive sciences are presently ill-equipped to deal with. They were as overcrowded and ill-equipped to manage bodies as the churchyards. Yet, in many other respects the stations seemed ill-equipped and unprepared for the people who were incarcerated there. As questions about party locations were asked in only one of the waves we are ill-equipped to test for the presence of an assimilation effect. They were poorly briefed for their tasks, and ill-equipped, as they were initially brought in just to implement the experimental scientific feeding program. Many were confined at home or in ill-equipped maternity homes, usually under the care of the family doctor. People who lack energy are ill-equipped to take advantage of opportunities for increasing their productivity and output. Others consult key personnel within their community who also may be ill-equipped to give constructive help. To use his own analogy, his ill-equipped 'lieutenants' failed the 'general' at the crucial moment of crisis. Real-world policy processes should, ideally, translate this framework into action, but in practice they are ill-equipped to do so. Extreme violence transformed into strategy for this small, ill-equipped group of soldiers. In his evaluation, exemplar theories appear ill-equipped to handle either hierarchical conceptual structure or induction. In the colonial context, though, the spectre of urbanization was thought all the more threatening, occurring amongst a backward people who were ill-equipped to weather the vicissitudes of town life. See all examples of ill-equipped 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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