单词 | worse |
释义 | worse I. 1. < the swampy land he bought appears worse than the rocky land he sold > < his shoes are rather the worse for wear > < the monuments were … in a state the worse for an earthquake — Douglas Carruthers > < his house … was the worse for the weather — H.M.Tomlinson > 2. a. < the consequences of the second attempt are worse > < was not the artistic type … worse luck — James Jones > < are questions of degree and … are none the worse for it — E.N.Griswold > < if the facts indicate that the hero is inadequate, so much the worse for the facts — G.W.Johnson > b. < displays manners worse than those of a boor > < the food is bad, the service worse > < would not convey the thought that an opinion is the worse for being lightened by a smile — B.N.Cardozo > c. < worse than any carpenter I know > 3. a. < it may be no worse to cheat than to steal > < breed worse criminals out of men — Hodding Carter > b. < appears worse since his accident > < decided to let the tooth get worse — W.J.Reilly > < people have been kept awake for five or six days … without being any the worse for it physically — Geoffrey Jefferson > II. 1. a. < if he were not dead, worse must have happened to him — Vicki Baum > < living in an atmosphere … full of boredom and sometimes of worse — Louis Bromfield > < threatened excommunication and worse — G.C.Sellery > < thought he was an atheist and worse — Van Wyck Brooks > b. < if worse comes to worst > < had taken a turn for the worse — Greer Williams > < whether the change was for the better or for the worse — Times Literary Supplement > 2. < fear there will be a worse come in his place — Shakespeare > < tossing the rascals out only to see their places taken by worse > III. < we sleep worse in very hot weather — Geoffrey Jefferson > < this week the confusion … has become worse confounded — Economist > < it is possible for a society to attain new peaks in its culture while many of its members are worse off than before — A.L.Kroeber > < I write the better when laurel-crowned and the worse for criticism — W.T.Scott > IV. transitive verb archaic intransitive verb archaic V. |
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