pokey
英
美
n. <美俚>监狱
adj. 狭小的; 破旧的
COCA.31664
英英释义
noun
- 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)
adj
- small and remote and insignificant
- a jerkwater college
- passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
- wasting time
双语例句
- They threw him in the pokey, kept him under very harsh conditions.
他们把他投进监狱，服刑条件非常恶劣。 - 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。 - Even if the lobby and restaurants were grand and spacious, the rooms were all too often pokey and old-fashioned.
尽管大堂和餐厅宏伟宽敞，但房间往往狭小过时。 - Switch on phone A and place it on the table such that the antenna ( the pokey thing at the top) is about half an inch from the egg.
开启手机A并将之放在桌上使其天线部分（头上突起部分）距离蛋杯半英寸。 - I'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those pokey bungalows where you have not 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。 - Second, they are untrustworthy snakes, always keen to assure buyers there is a lot of interest in some pokey basement, while at the same time telling sellers that a mingy offer is the best they will get.
第二，他们都是不值得信任的小人。他们总是信誓旦旦地向买家保证，某个狭小的地下室有很多人感兴趣，然而同时他们又告诉卖家，房子顶多能卖少得可怜的价钱。