The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
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badly
['bædli]
adv. 非常,在很大程度上;坏,拙劣地;不利地,有害地;
💡 bad坏的+ly表副词 →恶劣地
"Things have been going badly ."
事情进展得不顺利。
近义:nastily, wrong, wrongly, amiss
反义:appositely, appropriately, properly, seemly, well, befittingly
united
[[ju:'naitid]]
a. 联合的, 团结的, 一致的, 和睦的\\n[法] 联合的, 统一的, 一致的
近义:joined, joint, associated, near, nearby, neighboring
反义:isolated, remote, retired, segmented, separated, severed
n. 国家;民族;国民;政府;
💡 那(na)梯(ti)上(on)有 国家
"The nation's coffers are empty."
国库空虚。
近义:region, country, people, commonwealth
adj. 书面的;写成文字的;明显受到…影响;(感情)全挂在脸上;
v. 写( write的过去分词);写信;
"The letter was written in her usual acerbic style."
这封信是用她惯常的尖刻语调写的。
adv. 偶然, 胡乱, 无目的, 任意, 随便, 任取, 无规则, 机遇, 胡乱地, 任意地, 随便地\\n[计] 随机地
近义:random, accidentally, stochastically, causelessly, casually, chancely