Poorly

(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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• She said her lady was but poorly, and kept her own room a good deal. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• We get on poorly, said William; we're all out of work. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The best-looking among us will not look very well, lurking at a corner, and Bradley came out of that disadvantage very poorly indeed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Very small, very low in the ceiling, very poorly furnished--but, oh, so neat! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Little Georgette still piped her plaintive wail, appealing to me by her familiar termMinnie, Minnie, me very poorly! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Personal initiative and individual genius are poorly regarded: many socialists are suspicious of originality. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Elizabeth's congratulations were given with a sincerity, a warmth, a delight, which words could but poorly express. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• You were poorly, and I worried about you till I fell sick myself. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• She is poorly to-day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• 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. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• 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? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Beth is very poorly, Mother says. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It's made him quite poorly. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It was poorly furnished as a sitting-room, and it looked out on the backs of houses. 威尔基·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. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• 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. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• These two printers I found poorly qualified for their business. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• John should na ha' left me, and me so poorly. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• But very poorly, I'm afraid. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• The speaker was a poorly-dressed young woman with a bundle under her arm. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• 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. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• 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·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But the child who had done so much for him and had been so poorly repaid, was never out of his mind. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• He found waiting for him, in the hall, a poorly clad but delicate and interesting-looking little boy. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• I am just learning it, and while I understand it fairly well I speak it very poorly. 埃德加·赖斯·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. 威尔基·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! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He is poorly dressed, and yet does not appear to be a labourer. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.

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