pokey
英 ['pəʊkɪ] 美 ['poʊkɪ]

n.

监狱；

adj.

迟钝的；狭小的；破旧的；无趣的

英英释义

pokey[ 'pəuki ]

• n.a correctional institution used to detain persons who are in the lawful custody of the government (either accused persons awaiting trial or convicted persons serving a sentence)

  同义词：jailjailhousegaolclinkslammerpoky

• adj.
  • wasting time

    同义词：dilatorylaggardpoky

  • small and remote and insignificant

    同义词：jerkwaterone-horsepoky

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

1. I'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those pokey bungalows where you haven't room to swing a cat.
   尽管诸多不便，我宁愿住在这幢老房子里，也不愿住到那种狭小的平房里，在那里你连转身的地方都没有。
2. I am impatient with people who are always pokey about getting things done.
   我对于做事慢吞吞的人感到很不耐烦。

权威例句

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Pokey: Interaction through covert structured light
Pokey, a new DNA transposon in Daphnia (cladocera: crustacea)
One card poker with the jokers pokey wheel
Institutional hokey-pokey: the politics of multispeed integration in the European Union
Copy number variation of ribosomal DNA and Pokey transposons in natural populations of Daphnia
In and out of the rRNA genes: characterization of Pokey elements in the sequenced Daphnia genome
Let's Dance the "Robot Hokey-Pokey!": Children's Programming Approaches and Achievement throughout Early Cognitive Development.
Glass SK, Moszczynska A, Crease TJ. The effect of transposon Pokey insertions on sequence variation in the 28S rRNA gene of Daphnia ...