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单词 ill-prepared
释义
ill-prepared
adjective
uk
/ˌɪl.prɪˈpeəd/us
/ˌɪl.prɪˈperd/
notreadytodealwith asituation:
措手不及的，准备不足的
Theirtroopswere ill-preparedforcombat.他们的部队没有做好战斗准备。
Manystudentswhograduateare ill-preparedtojointheworldofwork.许多毕业的学生都没有做好进入职场的准备。
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(Definition ofill-preparedfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofill-prepared

ill-prepared
Even so, they wereill-preparedfor the bleak prospects which they faced when they arrived at the spot government had chosen for them.
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Another is that reforms were sometimes launched when the countries wereill-prepared.
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All else being equal, early elections are fought between incompetent incumbents andill-preparedchallengers.
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It also meant that many 'experts' were to beill-preparedfor the eventual disintegration of the state.
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They wereill-preparedfor the journey and experienced considerable problems in securing food at various farms and villages at which they stopped en route.
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This made the partyill-preparedfor the political concessions necessary to secure cross-bloc cooperation.
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Moreover, teachers can themselves be unaware of differences or feelill-preparedto address them with students.
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Even at the larger stations, as late as the early 1880s, the authorities remainedill-preparedto receive a ship-load of disease contacts.
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And a repeated charateristic of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century exploration, so intimately tied to everything that happened overseas, was a heedless and oftenill-preparedchallenge to the unknown.
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We wereill-preparedfor that.
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Many schools now hire inexperienced junior faculty at low pay, impose burdensome teaching loads, recruitill-preparednonethicists to help teach, and depend on research grants to defray ethics teaching costs.
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It demonstrated the need for a trained reserve by exposing the inadequacies of the militia, who, as volunteers for federal service, reported to their training camps patheticallyill-prepared.
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We wereill-preparedduring the election campaign for an impost of this nature.
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The hurried andill-preparedscheme which is now being talked about will reflect that calculation rather than any real basis of principle.
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But the problem has been illthought out, the schemeill-preparedand the legislation ill-digested.
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