poor
poor 英 [pɔ:(r)] 美 [pɔr]
adj. 贫穷的；可怜的
名词复数:poors 比较级:poorer 最高级:poorest
- Poor describes having little of something. If you lack needed food and shelter, you're poor, and if you fall below a standard or don't even try, you're giving a poor performance. Empty pockets and empty efforts both mean poor.
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- adj. 贫穷的；可怜的
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1. a poor little girl
一个可怜(贫穷)的小姑娘
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2. They were too poor to buy shoes for the kids.
他们穷得没钱给孩子买鞋穿。
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3. a poor swimmer
不擅游泳的人
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4. It's hungry—the poor little thing.
它饿了，这可怜的小家伙。
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5. It was raining heavily and visibility was poor.
当时天下着大雨，能见度很低。
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6. She's a good teacher but a poor manager.
她长于教学，却拙于管理。
- poor (adj.) c. 1200, "lacking money or resources, destitute; needy, indigent; small, scanty," from Old French povre "poor, wretched, dispossessed; inadequate; weak, thin" (Modern French pauvre), from Latin pauper "poor, not wealthy," from pre-Latin *pau-paros "producing little; getting little," a compound from the roots of paucus "little" (from PIE root *pau- (1) "few, little") and parare "to produce, bring forth" (from PIE root *pere-(1) "to produce, procure").
- poor (n.) "poor persons collectively," mid-12c., from poor (adj.). The Latin adjective pauper "poor" also was used in a noun sense "a poor man."
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