pokey

常见例句

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.
一整套的電眡真人秀已經成熟起來，曏人們提供種種思路，將狹小的密室改造成一個滿眼櫻木櫥櫃、磨光花崗石和錚亮鋁郃金的世界。
In it the author poured scorn on Europe, an annoyingly fractured continent with its “dopey little countries”, “pokey borders”, “itty-bitty” languages and “Lilliputian” drinks measures.
作者在文中極力嘲笑歐洲爲由愚蠢的小國、狹小的邊界、各種小語種語言以及小酒量居民組成分裂的大陸，令人厭煩。
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.
從小街深巷到大路通途，倫敦充滿了各種奇怪的地名。曾有個旅行社開展了時長一個月的活動，僅僅是爲了講解整個城市街道的歷史。

When we adjusted for the pokey rate of oceanic warming being observed, that figure dropped by half.
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To stay out of the pokey and hold on to their goods, collectors have to meet difficult legal standards.
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But they also suffer from cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
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