pokey
adj. 迟钝的；狭小的
n. 监狱
n. (Pokey)人名；(英)波基
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.)
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。
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
PokeyPOKEY
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 ...
pokey (n.)
"jail," 1919, of uncertain origin; Barnhart says perhaps altered from pogie "poorhouse" (1891), which itself is of unknown origin.
1. Last we arrived a old and pokey house.
最后我们到了一个又老又破的房子。
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2. It is not very becoming to weared the pokey jeans at the party.
穿着破旧的牛仔裤在宴会上显得不太得体。
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3. 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。
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4. Swiss planning regulators favor lots of small, pokey Windows, this house is anything but.
瑞士规划稳压青睐地段的小，亲爱的窗户，这家有百害而无一。
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5. The Ice-Cream or Hokey-Pokey man, like the ubiquitous organ-grinder, is likely to be Italian and from Saffron Hill in the London Borough of Camden.
就像无处不在的街头音乐家，很可能是意大利人和来自伦敦卡姆登市的Saffron山。
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6. As I passed the town's small and pokey police station on the opposite side of the road, I walked by a small, white, old-fashioned car parked up on my side of the road.
当我走到镇上又小又破的警察局对面的时候，发现有一辆小型白色老式车停在我身边。
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7. An entire genre of television reality shows has grown up to supply ideas for turning that pokey back room into a place of cherry wood cabinets, polished granite and brushed aluminium.
一整套的电视真人秀已经成熟起来，向人们提供种种思路，将狭小的密室改造成一个满眼樱木橱柜、磨光花岗石和铮亮铝合金的世界。
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8. London is filled with oddball place names, from pokey alleyways to grand thoroughfares - and a tourism organization has launched a monthlong campaign to tell the city's history through its streets.
从小街深巷到大路通途，伦敦充满了各种奇怪的地名。曾有个旅行社开展了时长一个月的活动，仅仅是为了讲解整个城市街道的历史。
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9. London is filled with oddball place names, from pokey alleyways to grand thoroughfares - and a tourism organization has launched a monthlong campaign to tell the city's history through its streets.
从小街深巷到大路通途，伦敦充满了各种奇怪的地名。曾有个旅行社开展了时长一个月的活动，仅仅是为了讲解整个城市街道的历史。
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