| 单词 | poor-quality |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspoor-quality b. With nouns, forming compounds used attributively, as poor-grade, poor-quality, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1881 Globe (Atchison, Kansas) 17 Mar. The stuff advertised as ‘pure maple sugar’ is four-fifths poor grade brown sugar. 1883 Science 8 June 520/1 The cost is estimated at two francs per 100 kilos of poor-quality iron. 1948 C. L. B. Hubbard Dogs in Brit. 234 The English Setter appears to be in danger of deteriorating into a very pretty but poor-quality worker. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. 57/3 When I was a boy we used to chaff poor-quality hay and mix it with molasses. 1997 Housing Agenda Sept. (Finance Suppl.) 8/3 Mixed-funded refurbishment of ‘poor value’ estates through small-scale transfers could focus investment on worst quality stock. < as lemmas |
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