ill-equipped a. 装备不良的
ill-equipped[ adj ]
poorly supplied with physical equipment
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the school was ill-equipped
- As for Unilever, it had obviously failed to anticipate how violently P&G would react and how ill-equipped it was to handle the onslaught. Until the end of May the Anglo-Dutch company just about managed to hold its own with consumers.
- The Common Market's bureaucracy is ill-equipped to detect and prosecute the crooks.
- But American youngsters remain ill-equipped to compete in a complex, high-tech job market where critical thinking skills are all-important.
- But UK shareholders are currently ill-equipped to make a sound judgment, while executives appear to see few advantages in restraint.
- The Social Democrats claim Kohl is ill-equipped to clean up the badly polluted environment in eastern Germany and is driving Germany deeper into debt.
- Since 1987, MasterCard has been steadily losing its share of the credit-card charge volume and had been viewed by some in the industry as ill-equipped to compete with Visa, the world's largest credit-card group.
- The sick economy, deficient schools and ill-equipped hospitals are the main complaints on the jacaranda-tree-lined streets of Lusaka, the capital, as well as on the red-dirt roads of the rural villages where sick babies go untreated.
- His forces routed the ill-equipped exiles, leaving the United States and its young president in shame and disarray.
- Their numbers are growing at an alarming rate in a nation ill-equipped to care for them; in many places, hospitals must serve as expensive baby sitters while foster homes are desperately sought for the infants.
- The report by The American Assembly also said the arts community was ill-equipped to deal with the recent controversy over alleged federal support for obscene and blasphemous works that once threatened the NEA's existence.
- Indeed, many hospitals such as Pediatric No. 1 are old and ill-equipped, inviting infections.
- But as the bears see it, many of the highly leveraged young technology companies would be ill-equipped to ride out any coming interest-rate spiral, especially if that rate rise throttles down the economy.
- A new class of efficient, non-partisan administrators must be found. Improving the state education system is crucial: state schools are ill-equipped and badly-paid teachers take out their grievances in prolonged strikes.
- For all that, they seem determined to elect a new Congress which is singularly ill-equipped, either to make it any better, or to make it any smaller.
- It would also clear the banks of all their pre-war debts, on the grounds that with many borrowers ill-equipped to repay them due to post-war hardship, these debts too might turn bad. The plan has a neat, once-and-for-all ring to it.
- The report said 9 million Americans are ill-equipped to hold entry-level jobs, while England, Germany, Japan and Sweden all do a better job of preparing non-college bound youth for employment.
- The report acknowledged that selective government support of key technologies or industries amounts to "picking winners" and that government bureaucrats often are ill-equipped to make such choices.
- Almost all the ingredients of Vietnam were present in Korea _ East Asia, an undeclared, limited war, a conflict between northern communists and a southern republic, and American war technology against a determined but ill-equipped foe.
- Classrooms are ill-equipped and in need of repairs.
- Some of Alameda's students, both white and minority, seem ill-equipped even for remedial education.