badly off

adj.

1. 穷困的；拮据的
   not having much money
   1. We aren't too badly off but we can't afford a house like that.
      我们并不是一文不名，但我们负担不起那样的房子。
2. 境况不佳的
   not in a good situation
   1. I've got quite a big room so I'm not too badly off.
      我有一间蛮大的屋子，所以住得还不坏。

in AM, also use 美国英语亦用 bad off


1. ADJ-GRADED 处于困境的；境况不佳的
   If you are badly off, you are in a bad situation.
   1. The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.
      日本每周平均工作时间为42.3小时，和英国的每周41.6小时相比，他们的情况并不算太糟。
2. ADJ-GRADED 缺钱的；贫穷的
   If you are badly off, you do not have much money.
   1. It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly off they are.
      那些有着高薪工作的人竟然还抱怨自己多么缺钱，真是过分。

1. The average working week in Japan is 42.3 hours, compared with 41.6 in the UK, so they are not too badly off.
   日本每周平均工作时间为42.3小时，和英国的每周41.6小时相比，他们的情况并不算太糟。
2. It is outrageous that people doing well-paid jobs should moan about how badly off they are.
   那些有着高薪工作的人竟然还抱怨自己多么缺钱，真是过分。
3. Surely you can't be that badly off?
   你肯定没那么穷吧？
4. I guess so. I am badly off and I need this job.
   我想也是，我失业很久了，现在很需要这份工作。
5. We were so badly off when we first married that we could afford to heat only one room in the house.
   我们刚结婚时非常穷，只用得起一间屋子的暖气。
6. Even though farmers would seem better off nominally, in real terms they would actually be as badly off as they were originally.
   即使从名义上说农民看来改善了一些，但从实际上来说，他们仍然与原先一样糟糕。
7. My family was badly off in those days.
   那些日子我家一贫如洗。
8. The refugees are badly off for blankets, and even worse off for food.
   难民需要毯子，更需要食物。
9. The kids are quite badly off for clothes.
   这些孩子缺衣少穿。
10. I am badly off for meeting a friend.
    我立刻得走，见个朋友。
11. A currency facing downward pressure is a headache, but one facing upward pressure is not badly off.
    有下降压力很头痛，但上升压力绝对不坏。
12. She was quite badly off for a while after her husband died.
    丈夫去世后的一段时期内她很贫困。
13. Diplomatically, we were not badly off. This would be against diplomatic etiquette.
    从外交上说，我们境况不错。
14. I am quite badly off recently.
    最近我经济上很拮据。
15. He has become quite badly off since he lost his job.
    他失业后，变得相当穷困。
16. They are too badly off to have a good meal.
    他们太穷了，都不能吃一顿好饭。
17. They were so badly off that they had to sell whatever was valuable in their possession.
    他们家境不佳，不得不变卖家产中任何值钱的东西。
18. The company has gone badly off the rails in recent years.
    这家公司最近几年已经陷于严重瘫痪。
19. The story took place some ten years ago, when most people were badly off.
    故事发生在大约十年前，当时大多数人的生活很贫苦。
20. They don't seem too badly off& they have smart clothes and a nice house.
    他们似乎不算贫困，因为他们有漂亮的衣服和房子。
21. In the past, they were too badly off to afford a holiday.
    过去他们很贫穷，根本谈不上度假。
22. Even now some universities are badly off for English teachers.
    即使现在有些大学英语教师也很缺。
23. Personally, I am ready to make a contribution to those who are badly off.
    就我而言，我是很乐意捐款给那些穷困潦倒的人的。
24. My parents were too badly off to send me to school when I was a child.
    我小的时候太穷了，上不了学。
25. Our junior middle school was then badly off for teachers.
    当时我们初级中学缺少教师。
26. My parents were badly off when we were young.
    我们小时侯父母很穷。
27. We may be poor, but we are not that badly off.
    我们虽然穷，可我们还没穷到那么糟糕。
28. The local farmers all looked pretty badly off.
    当地农民看起来全都很贫困。
29. Social insurance shows the country is built through legislation, be in to laborer its are unripe, old, ill, dead, injury, incomplete, unemployed and happen other when be badly off, offer material the system of the help.
    社会保险是指国家通过立法建立的，对劳动者在其生、老、病、死、伤、残、失业以及发生其他生活困难时，给予物质帮助的制度。
30. We can't have vacation& we are too badly off.
    我们不能去度假&我们太穷了。

adj.

be badly off for sth

• 某物短少；缺乏
  to not have enough of sth