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1 Howard Archer, chief UK and European economist at IHS Markit, described the figures as "a ropey set of March data for the UK economy that point to a poor end to a disappointing first quarter".

2 The technology may exist now for us to paint entirely new worlds on the big screen, but nine times out of 10 they end up looking pretty ropey.

3 Young, 54, said she got a diagnosis after about a year of trying to work out what was going on with her health, by which time she was "feeling really, really ropey".

4 The Netherlands have looked ropey in both of their group matches so far but are still in with a strong chance of progressing as group winners.

5 Phone reception is ropey among the conifers; he frets about how smartphones are “impairing our consciousness and normalising a fragmented way of being”.

6 In the sports arena of my mind, I pump and glide like a ropey adolescent on performance-enhancing pasta.

7 Pahoehoe might come from low-viscosity lava that flows easily into ropey strands.

8 Notoriously the first round of the Six Nations is a bit ropey and even though it was the last game, it was a one-off so you are going to be a bit rusty again.

9 Calamari aren’t the usual thin threads of squid, but thick, ropy rectangles, piping hot and partnered with an Asian-inflected, peanut-tamarind-miso dipping sauce.

10 Nearly 2m Ukrainians have arrived since 2014, pushed by a ropy national economy and a war in the country’s east, and pulled by higher wages in Poland.

11 As for the other films in CinemaScore’s notorious F club, some of them are ropey.

12 Jackson was “able to extricate John’s voice from a ropey little bit of cassette and a piano,” McCartney told BBC radio.

13 The berries’ tart presence seems utterly at home amid chanterelles sautéed with garlic and herbs and tossed with strozzapreti — a ropey, rolled noodle whose name literally means “priest strangler.”

14 Your spelling's a bit ropey.

你的拼写有点难看。

15 He has Denly ripping his bottom hand off the bat to begin with a ball that bites but the opener makes the most of a ropey ball to finish, slapping three down the ground.

16 Their health-care system suffers from queues, shortages and ropey equipment.

他们的医疗体系有很多不足：要排队等候，资源短缺，设备陈旧。

17 Was that down to Downey’s diminished star power or his ropey Welsh accent?

18 "My geology's pretty ropey," Maconie admitted, as they pondered what stone they might be walking on.

19 Valery Gergiev and the London Symphony Orchestra began their run of Brahms symphonies in Edinburgh with a performance of the First that was glorious in the end, but not without its ropey moments.

20 The quirkiness doesn't stop and, sadly, neither do the ropey musical numbers.

1 质量差的

bad cheap rotten low-grade duff low-class

2 不适的

tight sick upset out of condition

3 差劲的

nice weak dire lame rotten lousy dodgy dismal third-rate

4 不舒服的

uncomfortable blah grim queer unwell indisposed under the weather

5 品质不好的

ropy

6 情况差的

ropy

7 不舒服

uncomfortable blah grim queer unwell indisposed discomfort indisposition trouble not so hot under the weather disagree with

8 不适

tight sick upset trouble complaint discomfort out of condition disagree with