worse off

英 [wɜːs ɒf] 美 [wɜːrs ɔːf]

adj.  穷困的; 拮据的; 境况不佳的
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    in AM, also use 美国英语亦用 bad off

  1. ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的；境况不佳的
    If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
    1. The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.
      日本每周平均工作时间为42.3小时，和英国的每周41.6小时相比，他们的情况并不算太糟。
  2. ADJ-GRADED 缺钱的；贫穷的
    If you are badly off, you do not have much money.
    1. It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly off they are.
      那些有着高薪工作的人竟然还抱怨自己多么缺钱，真是过分。
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双语例句

  1. I've always worked on the basis that if I don't know anything technical I shan't be any worse off.
    我一贯认为，即便我对技术一窍不通，我也不会比现在更穷困潦倒。
  2. The new law could create a 'no lose' situation for the phone companies that could leave ratepayers worse off.
    这项新的法律将会让电话运营公司“稳赚不赔”，但是消费者利益可能会继续受到侵害。
  3. Her favourite saying was: 'There are a lot of people far worse off than me.'
    她最喜欢的谚语是：“比上不足，比下有余。”
  4. The migrant workers are worse off than the average city dwellers.
    民工生活苦于一般城里人。
  5. But in this respect I do not think I am much worse off than the girls who take notes.
    即使是在这种情形下，我也不觉得自己比用笔记录的姑娘们差到哪里。
  6. But journalism will be far worse off as a whole.
    但作为一个整体，新闻业所面临的后果要坏得多。
  7. You couldn't be any worse off than you are now.
    你不会比现在更糟的。
  8. This new legislation would leave taxpayers worse off.
    新的立法会使纳税人情况更糟。
  9. Nor are you worse off by a mere half-pair of gloves.
    你损失的也不仅仅是半对手套。
  10. I'm no worse off than I was in tampico.
    我不会比在坦皮科时更糟了。
  11. There is always somebody worse off than yourself.
    总是有比你还惨的人。
  12. I'm quite satisfied that my job and pay are not worse off than most of my schoolmates.
    对于我的工作和收入不比大多数同学差这一点，我相当满意。
  13. When I was young we were worse off than you are!
    我小的时候比你们要糟糕得多！
  14. Can any shift in the use of resources make some individual better off without making someone else worse off?
    资源利用中的任何转移会使一些人富裕起来而不使其他人潦倒下去吗？
  15. He said people in the disaster area were worse off than him because their lives were threatened.
    他说，灾区的人民所受的灾难远远超过了他，因为他们的生命正受到威胁。
  16. Lots of children in the world are worse off than you.
    世上许多孩子比你们还惨。
  17. Clearly there were people who were worse off than me.
    显然有些人比我还要惨。
  18. No matter how bad you feel you are, there is someone worse off.
    无论你认为自己多么不幸，都有比你更加不幸的人。
  19. Her father has lost his job and is worse off than ever.
    她父亲丢掉了工作，经济情况比以前更糟。
  20. If you feel like you're worse off now than you were two years ago, that's an unhappy feeling.
    如果你感到自己现在比两年前钱少了，那就是一个不快乐的感受。
  21. There's many who would be a lot worse off without your Aunt Mary and her like.
    没有你玛丽阿姨和像她那样的人，很多人的情况可能会更糟糕。
  22. Unfortunately his father died, leaving the family even worse off.
    不幸的是他的父亲去世了，这使他家更穷了。
  23. In some cases they've got it a lot worse off than many of you.
    在有些情况下，他们的挑战要大过你们中的很多人，但是他们绝不屈服。
  24. But even in failure, I was never worse off than before I took the risk.
    不过即便最后以失败收场，我也没有变得比冒险之前更差。
  25. And we have made the argument that the rest of the EU would be much worse off without us.
    我们一直声称，离开了我们，欧盟其它国家的境况将会糟糕得多。
  26. You are worse off than a pauper though you may be well off financially.
    您现在更糟比乞丐虽然你可能是小康财政。
  27. I went to his home and found his living conditions were worse off than mine.
    我去他家一看，发现他的生活状况比我的更差。
  28. But there's a lot of people worse off than what we are.
    但有很多人比我们差多了。
  29. Are we really worse off than our parents?
    我们真的比我们的父母穷吗？
  30. I've only broken my arm; other patients are far worse off than me.
    我只是胳膊折了，其他病人比我严重的多。
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