单词 | badly off |
释义 | Word Frequency badly off poor; impoverished Word Frequency badly off(ˈbædlɪ ɒf) British or bad off US adjective 1. not having much money; poor It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly offthey are. We're not badly off, but we're not rich either. tax breaks for badly-off families 2. being at a disadvantage The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, soBritish workers are not too badly off. We are not too badly off here. We have most of the things we need. There are people much worse off than me. 3. lacking something; not having enough of something The Smiths are even worse off for space than we are. |
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