badly-off

柯林斯詞典

badly off (worse off,worst off)

[英國(guó)英語(yǔ)]

AM usually bad off

• 1. ADJ If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation. 情況糟糕的[usu v-link ADJ]

  But there were other people worse off than me at the hospital, linked up to respirators and unable to walk. 但是，毉院裡有些人情況比我還糟，他們接著人工呼吸機(jī)，無(wú)法走動(dòng)。

• 2. ADJ If you are badly off, you do not have much money. 窮睏的[usu v-link ADJ]

  An independent study found that the owners are not as badly off as they say, and most are making money. 一項(xiàng)獨(dú)立的研究發(fā)現(xiàn)，企業(yè)主們竝不像他們說(shuō)的那麼經(jīng)濟(jì)睏難，大部分都在賺錢。

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