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单词 underachieve
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Definition of underachieve in English:

underachieve

verbʌndərəˈtʃiːvˌəndərəˈtʃiv
[no object]
  • Do less well than expected, especially in schoolwork.

    the report focused on pupils who were underachieving
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The disorder is frequently diagnosed in children with behavioural problems or in those who underachieve at school.
    • But he admitted that some pupils would have started the new school term ‘disappointed’, believing that they had underachieved.
    • We massively underachieved and the present-day side are doing that too.
    • It's over, and we're out, having underperformed and underachieved in a major tournament yet again.
    • The aim is to nip any problems in the bud before they spiral out of control and lead to youngsters dropping out or underachieving.
    • These are aimed at pupils who are underachieving or at risk of exclusion and cover basic skills like literacy and numeracy as well as sport, music, ICT and media courses.
    • All had underachieved at school, had few if any qualifications and had no job.
    • It is hard to believe he was a child who consistently underachieved at school, whose reports said ‘nice and friendly’ but never mentioned any outstanding mental ability.
    • ‘There is no doubt that the pupils taking their GCSEs underachieved,’ the report says.
    • For years, as both clubs underachieved, there was little to talk about between derby matches apart from the derbies themselves.
    • This is problem even before the university stage, these children are underachieving at school and nothing seems to be happening to correct this problem.
    • Of course this club has underachieved, but we are not far away from going on to do really well.
    • The analyses served as a mechanism to question current practices and thinking about why some groups of children underachieve in school.
    • This country has underachieved in the world of sport over the last 20 years.
    • Dr Nash will also discuss the relevance of the programme for other groups of children who may be underachieving and experiencing failure at school.
    • There were some players not even celebrating much because they know they underachieved as individuals.
    • While the film is making respectful money, the trades seem to report that it is underachieving according to expectations.
    • I felt useless, knew full well that I was underachieving, but still refused point blank to do anything about it.
    • In Italy he was dubbed the ‘successful loser’, a guy everybody seemed to like, competent but underachieving.
    • Primary teachers, he added, can readily identify those who will most likely underachieve and drop out early in a society of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion.

Derivatives

  • underachiever

  • nounʌnd(ə)rəˈtʃiːvəˌəndərəˈtʃivər
    • At school, he was ‘an underachiever and a screw-off.’
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Albert Einstein: although an underachiever at school, he went on to dominate the world of physics with his ground-breaking discoveries
      • Conor O'Neill is your typical underachiever, a good-looking, sulky drifter who's a ticket scalper and a gambler on the wrong side of the dice.
      • They are very much the underachievers in European football but they have a wonderful team and on their day they can beat anyone.
      • People are always saying that Darren is an underachiever.
      • Within a fortnight of its American release it had earned £75 million - a bona fide critical and commercial box-office hit in a summer of heavy-hitting underachievers.
      • I was expected to do it; I knew I should do it and that if I didn't I would be put in the box of losers, underachievers.
      • He's a sort of classic underachiever who is looking after his father who has never been the same since his mother left them.
      • More than anything, though, Duncan has been one of the great underachievers of his generation.
      • It appears my course has become a filler for last-minute applicants, indecisive underachievers and anyone idle they could find on the streets.
      • Were you considered an underachiever in school?
      • It is, however, a moment guaranteed to inspire athletic underachievers everywhere.
      • Yet now these gap-year students and educational underachievers are formally charged with divesting our children of their ignorance; or at least the children who are sent to nursery schools or childminding circles.
      • Want to see how much of an underachiever you are?
      • He moved to Widnes in 1962 and helped transform a team of underachievers to cup-winners in 1964-the side's first trophy in 18 years.
      • Graham, though, is undaunted by the prospect and believes he can turn the Premiership's most notorious underachievers into top three material for next year.
      • For mainstream media, the plentiful underachievers are customarily the rough equivalent of flotsam and jetsam.
      • My brother, on the other hand, evolved from classic third-child underachiever to thrusting college student within a matter of months.
      • Schools are mollycoddling pupils, producing a generation of unhealthy underachievers, the government's education agency has warned.
      • The other is a chronic underachiever, undependable, disreputable, a thoroughly wild child.

Rhymes

achieve, believe, breve, cleave, conceive, deceive, eve, greave, grieve, heave, interleave, interweave, khedive, leave, misconceive, naive, Neve, peeve, perceive, reave, receive, reive, relieve, reprieve, retrieve, sheave, sleeve, steeve, Steve, Tananarive, Tel Aviv, thieve, upheave, weave, we've, Yves
 
 

Definition of underachieve in US English:

underachieve

verbˌəndərəˈtʃivˌəndərəˈCHēv
[no object]
  • Do less well than expected, especially in schoolwork.

    the report focused on pupils who were underachieving
    Example sentencesExamples
    • This country has underachieved in the world of sport over the last 20 years.
    • ‘There is no doubt that the pupils taking their GCSEs underachieved,’ the report says.
    • In Italy he was dubbed the ‘successful loser’, a guy everybody seemed to like, competent but underachieving.
    • The aim is to nip any problems in the bud before they spiral out of control and lead to youngsters dropping out or underachieving.
    • Of course this club has underachieved, but we are not far away from going on to do really well.
    • But he admitted that some pupils would have started the new school term ‘disappointed’, believing that they had underachieved.
    • We massively underachieved and the present-day side are doing that too.
    • These are aimed at pupils who are underachieving or at risk of exclusion and cover basic skills like literacy and numeracy as well as sport, music, ICT and media courses.
    • It's over, and we're out, having underperformed and underachieved in a major tournament yet again.
    • It is hard to believe he was a child who consistently underachieved at school, whose reports said ‘nice and friendly’ but never mentioned any outstanding mental ability.
    • Primary teachers, he added, can readily identify those who will most likely underachieve and drop out early in a society of poverty, unemployment and social exclusion.
    • This is problem even before the university stage, these children are underachieving at school and nothing seems to be happening to correct this problem.
    • The disorder is frequently diagnosed in children with behavioural problems or in those who underachieve at school.
    • There were some players not even celebrating much because they know they underachieved as individuals.
    • While the film is making respectful money, the trades seem to report that it is underachieving according to expectations.
    • I felt useless, knew full well that I was underachieving, but still refused point blank to do anything about it.
    • For years, as both clubs underachieved, there was little to talk about between derby matches apart from the derbies themselves.
    • The analyses served as a mechanism to question current practices and thinking about why some groups of children underachieve in school.
    • Dr Nash will also discuss the relevance of the programme for other groups of children who may be underachieving and experiencing failure at school.
    • All had underachieved at school, had few if any qualifications and had no job.
 
 
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