poky['pəuki]adj.1.■慢吞吞的；(性格)迟钝的；冷漠的2.■(场所、房屋等)狭小的；简陋的；(地方)死气沉沉的3.■(衣着)不时髦的；破旧的4.■(工作等)单调的；琐碎的；低微的 [亦作 pokey]变形adj.pokierpokiest
(亦作 pokey)
(pokier, pokiest)
- (of a room or building) uncomfortably small and cramped
（房间，房屋）狭小的，拥挤的
five of us shared the poky little room.
我们五个人住在那间狭小的房间里。 - (informal)(especially of a car) having considerable power or acceleration
(非正式)（尤指汽车）功率大的，加速度大的 - (N. Amer.)annoyingly slow
(北美)慢吞吞的，缓慢的
his speech was poky, like he was a little simple.
他说话慢吞吞的，仿佛是有点迟钝似的。
pokily
adverb
pokiness
noun
语源
- mid 19th cent. (in the sense 'concerned with petty matters'): from poke (in a contemporaneous sense 'confine') + -y
poky
名词 poky:
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)
同义词：jail, jailhouse, gaol, clink, slammer, pokey
形容词 poky:
wasting time
small and remote and insignificant
poky
■- OpenedHand provide consultancy and custom development work based on Poky.
+ OpenedHand公司提供Poky相关的咨询和客户开发工作。
■He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny, poky shop in London, and now the company he found has branches all over the country.
50年前他在伦敦开了一个简陋的小铺子做生意，现在他创立的公司已在全国建立了分支机构。
■He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny, poky shop in London, and now the company he found has branches all over the country.Great oaks from little acorns grow.
50年前他在伦敦开了一个简陋的小铺子做生意，现在他创立的公司已在全国建立了分支机构。事业是一点点发展起来的
■He set up in business fifty years ago in a tiny,poky shop in London,and now the company he found has branches all over the country.Great oaks from little acorns grow.
50年前他在伦敦开了一个简陋的小铺子做生意，现在他创立的公司已在全国建立了分支机构。事业是一点点发展起来的啊。
■a lazy, poky person.
一个懒惰、动作迟缓的人
■Back in the early 1990s, I was proudly escorted to the happening place at the time: a poky bar in the diplomatic neighborhood, featuring plastic stools and rickety tables.
九十年代初，我被人自豪地带到那时的一个稀罕地方：使馆区的一个小酒吧，里面有塑料板凳和摇晃的桌子。
■Whether cable, DSL or mobile broadband, today's connections are many times faster than those in the days of the poky dialup modem.
因为今日的上网连结，无论是透过有线电视的线路、DSL或是行动宽频，速度都比过去缓慢的数据机电话拨接上网快上好多倍。
■At Miss Jones' home, she was tied in the poky bathtub with adhesive tape by Mr.Jackson.She became Mr.Jackson's jeton to negotiate with the policemen.
在琼斯小姐的家中，她被杰克逊用胶带绑在狭小的浴缸里，她成了杰克逊与警察谈判的筹码。
■If the Laurences had been what Jo called `prim and poky' she would not have got on at all, for such people always made her shy and awkward;
她想如果贝思也来听就好了，但却没有说出来，只是对他赞不绝口，夸得他挺不好意思。
■If you don't, it's poky dial-up access for you.
如果不是的话，就只能依靠慢吞吞的拨接上网了。
■Only three hours the tough workers have finished the work perfectly though the space is poky and muggy .
容器空间狭小，潮湿闷热，环境恶劣，但是工人师傅们个个不畏困难，只有了三个小时就顺利完成了任务。
■I'd rather live in this old house with all its inconveniences than in one of those poky bungalows where you haven't 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。
■poky mutant
延迟突变型, 生长迟缓突变型
■always wearing those poky old clothes.
总是穿着那几件又旧又破的衣服
■This bedroom is too poky for me.
我这间卧室太窝憋。
■The water-base coating in the poky ship space of engine room and its standardization
机舱狭小舱室用水性涂料及其标准化
■And it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa.And I can only stay home and knit, like a poky old woman!’
没能成为男孩子是我一直克服不了的失望，现在就更糟了，因为我拼命想跟爸爸上前线去打仗，可现在却只能呆在家里织这些玩意儿，活脱脱像个垂死的老太太！”
■Poky，cover me.
波基，掩护我。
■21、Poky，cover me. I'm going in.
波基，掩护我。我要行动了。
■Poky，cover me. archlord power leveling, I m going in.
波基，掩护我。我要行动了。(老板问起，就说我见客户去了。
■a jerkwater college; passed a series of poky little one-horse towns.
狭小的学院；经过了一连串偏远的小城镇。
■a poky room
狭小的房间
■a poky attic
狭小的阁楼
■a poky little room
狭窄的小屋.
■A poky apartment
狭隘拥挤的公寓
■a poky apartment.
狭隘拥挤的寓所
■Life is like crossing the sea.We meet in the same poky boat.
生命有如渡过一重大海，我们相遇在这同一的狭船里。
■passed a series of poky little one-horse towns
经过了一连串偏远的小城镇
■The merest glance through a microscope at the brain of an ant or through a telescope at a long-ago galaxy of a billion worlds is enough to render poky and parochial the very psalms of praise.
这些手段提供的安慰或许是或者不是幻觉，但是它们确实有效。
■a poky hole of a place
非常窄小的地方
■a poky hole
非常闭塞的地方, 穷乡僻壤