橘子朗文词典

poky

P 开头单词

音标发音

  • 英式音标 [ˈpəʊ.ki]
  • 美式音标 [ˈpoʊ.ki]
  • 英式发音
  • 美式发音

基本解释

  • adj. 狭小的，不舒适的；衣服破旧的；无生气的

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英汉例句

    双语例句

  • Firefox is great, but it can be poky.
    Firefox很棒，但它有时会很迟钝。
  • THE objects scattered around Mario Rotundo’s poky, windowless office in central Buenos Aires do not look like much.
    Mario Rotundo狭小无窗的办公室位于布宜诺斯艾利斯中心，散落其间的物品看上去并不怎么起眼。
  • I'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those poky bungalows where you haven't room to swing a cat.
    尽管诸多不便，我宁愿住在这幢老房子里，也不愿住到那种狭小的平房里，在那里你连转身的地方都没有。

    • 权威例句

  • When cancer strikes, the patient may never know it, so poky is the pace of this invader.
    FORBES: Men, Cancer, & Hope
  • The Internet is poky by design--and there are hard chairs in the computer room to discourage work.
    FORBES: Magazine Article
  • The threat posed by the fidgety remote control and the poky VCR pales in comparison with the digital threat.
    FORBES: ZAP!

词组短语

    短语

  • agricultural poky 农业政策
  • poky mutant [遗]迟钝突变型
  • Poky Monsters 动画怪物
  • poky mutation 生长缓慢突变株在脉孢菌中生长缓慢的线粒体突变
  • poky room 在生活的挤压下都出现了

英英字典

    剑桥英英字典

  • (SMALL) A poky room, house, or other place is unpleasantly small and uncomfortable.
  • (SLOW) slow
  • (FAST) (of a car) fast

    • 柯林斯英英字典

  • If you say that someone is poky, you are criticizing them for moving or reacting very slowly.
  • A room or house that is poky is uncomfortably small.
  • If someone is in the poky, they are in prison.