| 词汇 | poky |
| 释义 | poky adjective (alsopokey)uk /ˈpəʊ.ki/ us /ˈpoʊ.ki/pokier | pokiest pokyadjective (SMALL)UKinformal A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable: 狭小的；简陋的 They live in a poky little flat.他们住在一套狭小的公寓里。 Small baby bijou bite-sized claustrophobically compactly dwarf midget miniaturized missy modest modestly no/not enough room to swing a catidiom on the large, small, etc. sideidiom sampler scaled-down scrubby shoe box shrunken skimpily wee pokyadjective (SLOW)USinformal slow: 慢吞吞的 I wish you wouldn't be so poky when you're getting ready.我希望你做准备时不要这么慢吞吞的。 slow slowYou're so slow - hurry up! leisurelyWe took a leisurely drive along the quiet coast road. unhurriedI like the unhurried pace of life in the countryside. gentleStart off with a gentle jog, then gradually increase your speed. Slow and moving slowly (as) slow as molassesidiom at a snail's paceidiom by and byidiom by degreesidiom claw your way (somewhere)idiom float hang around in ones and twosidiom inch by inchidiom infiltrate infiltration jog labour sluggishly sluggishness snail staged steadily struggle wander pokyadjective (FAST)UKinformal (of a car) fast: （汽车）快速的 a poky two-litre petrol engine一个2升的快速汽油发动机 Fast and rapid (at) full speed/tilt/peltidiom apace as fast as your legs would carry youidiom as if it is going out of styleidiom at a rate of knotsidiom fleet hypersonic in the twinkling of an eyeidiom Jack Robinson lickety-split light speed lightning prompt souped-up speed of light spread like wildfireidiom streak super-express superfast wildfire Examples of pokypoky Older people do not want to be made to move to a poky sheltered housing unit with neighbours they did not choose. The retired ambassadors advocate a poky of creating two states in the middle east. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Most of the houses are small, with poky little rooms and with outside lavatories. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The additional volume of air we wish to circulate in the mines today could not have passed through the poky little airways we knew in the old days. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They come out into the open and stand under the stars rather than be cramped up in a poky sitting room which is no more than lath and plaster. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They crowded into poky dirty rooms, and the slums of the city became to be known for the high rate of disease-dying people. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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