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If you are ill-prepared, you are not ready for something that is coming — a test, a trip, a talk, a storm. You did not pack, practise, or think ahead enough. Teachers use it a lot about exams; news uses it about governments and hospitals. It is a little more formal than “not ready.” Though actually, it often carries a small blame: not just “the thing hasn’t started,” but “someone should have got ready and didn’t.” You can also be ill-prepared even if you tried, if what you did was the wrong kind of getting ready — studying the wrong pages, packing summer clothes for a mountain.
準備不足的、沒準備好的
組成From ill + prepared. “Ill” means badly, so: badly prepared.
同家族的字
- well-preparedthe opposite: ready in a useful way
- unpreparedvery close in meaning, and a bit more everyday
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ill-preparedadj
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Not well prepared. Not ready, or not in condition to do a task.
- He was ill-prepared for the exam. I'm not surprised he failed.
- The colonists, many of them gentlemen ill-prepared to be settlers, achieved failure at almost everything they tried.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。