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worse

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worse1 /wɜːs $ wɜːrs/ ●●● S1 W2 adjectiveadj
1  [the comparative of bad]WORSE more unpleasant, bad, or severe 更壞的；更糟的；更差的 → better
worse than
The violence was worse than we expected.
暴力事件比我們預想的更爲嚴重。
The traffic is much worse after five o'clock.
5點以後交通擁堵嚴重得多。
The weather was a lot worse this year.
今年天氣糟糕得多。
Conditions will get worse as the winter continues.
随着冬天持續下去，情況會更糟。
High inflation will make unemployment worse.
高通貨膨脹率將使失業狀況更加嚴重。
Don’t say anything, you’ll only make matters worse.
什麽也别說，說了只會火上澆油。
The bullying got worse and worse until finally he had to leave the school.
他所受的欺侮越來越過分，最後只得離開了學校。
There’s nothing worse than being robbed while you’re on holiday.
沒有比度假時被搶劫更糟的了。
The school’s not perfect, but I suppose it could be worse.
這所學校不是十全十美，不過我想還不算太糟吧。
2  WORSEmore ill than before 病情更重的，更不舒服的
If she’s worse in the morning, I’ll call the doctor.
如果她早上病情加重的話，我就去請醫生來。
I was worried because he seemed to be getting worse rather than better.
我很擔心，因爲他的病情好像沒有好轉，反而惡化了。
The tablets seemed to make him worse.
他吃了那些藥片後似乎病得更重了。
3  be none the worse for something HARM/BE BAD FORINJUREto not have been harmed by something 沒有受到某事物的傷害
She seemed none the worse for her night out in the cold.
她在外面凍了一晚上，好像一點事也沒有。
4  worse luck spokenDISAPPOINTED used to say that you are disappointed or annoyed by something 真不幸〔因某事而感到沮喪或生氣時用〕
I’ve got one more year of college, worse luck!
我還得再上一年大學，真倒黴！
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worse luck• I have to go to secretarial school, worse luck.• You're a bad agent and you're worse luck.• Nearly all gone now, worse luck, and the guv'nor's arrived to read the riot act.• Bad luck for Venus, worse luck for the 12,000 fans, but hey, what can you do?• You go up there with the wrong attitude and come out with worse luck than you had before.
5  somebody could do worse than do something spokenSHOULD/OUGHT TO used to say that you think that someone should do something 某人倒不如做某事
He could do worse than marry Eleanor.
他和埃莉諾結婚倒不錯。
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somebody could do worse than do something• A woman could do worse than be a nurse.• In groping for useful precedents, one could do worse than heed the tale of a man named Sherwood Rowland.• He could do worse than spend his evening keeping an eye on her.• You could do worse than take a leaf out of the health economists' book.• The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration.
6  go from bad to worse to continue getting worse 越來越糟；每況愈下
Things went from bad to worse, and in the end she lost her job.
情況越來越糟，最終她丢了工作。
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go from bad to worse• Matters continued to go from bad to worse.• Matters went from bad to worse.• On Ithaca, the island where his home was, things had gone from bad to worse.• That they are going from bad to worse.• It went from bad to worse as the heavens opened and turned the circuit into one huge puddle.• As 1931 went from bad to worse the possibility of another marriage began to seem her best hope of salvation.
7. the worse for wear  (also the worse for drink British EnglishBrE) informalCONDITION/STATE OF something drunk 喝醉的
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the worse for wear• Architectural details there were few and those were the worse for wear.• Here I was, returning from a presidential mission, and plainly the worse for wear.• It was a long evening, and he arrived home at two in the morning, much the worse for wear.• But I digress ... We are all somewhat the worse for wear after a long night in the hotel bar.• John McGuire was slightly the worse for wear after his night out with his wife.• They were a bit the worse for wear; the flat was not clean and was damp.• But I can see he's the worse for wear, the weathering the worker wreaks on himself.
5 GRAMMAR 語法: worse, worst
Worse is a comparative form. worse 是比較級形式
The problem got worse and worse.
這問題變得越來越嚴重。
► Do not say ‘more worse’ or ‘worser’. 不要說 ‘more worse’ 或 ‘worser’.
Worst is a superlative form. worst 是最高級形式
It was the worst film (NOT 不說 the worse film) I have ever seen.
那是我看過的最爛的電影。
► Do not say ‘most worst’ or ‘worstest’. 不要說 ‘most worst’ 或 ‘worstest’.
n GRAMMAR: Comparatives
The comparative form of bad is worse:
The problem is getting worse.
✗Don’t say: The problem is getting more worse. | The problem is getting worser.
n COLLOCATIONS
adverbs
much/a lot/far worse
Conditions were much worse in rural areas.
considerably/substantially worse
To make matters considerably worse, he lost his job.
infinitely worse (=very much worse)
My fate could have been infinitely worse.
progressively/steadily worse
The violence grew progressively worse.
even worse
My cooking’s even worse than yours.
verbs
get/become/grow worse
The recession was getting worse.
make something worse
Getting angry will just make things worse.
phrases
worse and worse
The bullying got worse and worse.
there’s nothing worse than ...
There’s nothing worse than lending something and not getting it back.
something could be worse
Cheer up – things could be worse.
better or worse
I wasn’t sure whether his behaviour was getting better or worse.
n THESAURUS
worse more unpleasant, bad, severe etc, or of a lower standard or quality
Recent reports indicate that the situation is getting worse.
Your French is even worse than mine!
inferior of a lower standard or quality than something else, or less good than someone else
Their wines are of inferior quality.
an inferior product
Trying to do things on the cheap only results in an inferior service.
not compare with something used to emphasize that someone or something is not nearly as good, big, or nice as someone or something else
This recording just doesn’t compare with his early recordings.
Our sales this year do not compare with last year’s outstanding results.
not be in the same league informal used to emphasize that the standard of someone or something is not nearly as good as someone or something else
He’s pretty good, but he’s not in the same league as his brother.
not be a patch on something/somebody British EnglishBrE informal use this to emphasize that something is not nearly as good as something else, especially something that came before it
The film wasn’t a patch on the book.
He’s not a patch on Tarantino as a director.
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worse• Phillips' problems may be even worse.• This could only serve to make things worse.• I really don't think the situation could be any worse.• I tried to fix the computer myself, but that just made it worse.• a terrible script and even worse acting• The traffic is a lot worse after five o'clock.• The next morning, the weather was much worse, and the team stayed at base camp.• The welfare system, runs this view, makes things worse because it discourages people from working and rewards undesirable behaviour.• I knew that there is no death worse for an eagle than death at the beaks of hooded crows.• Things could be worse for the McNemars.• Conditions in the prison were worse than anything I had seen before.• Duncan's handwriting is even worse than his sister's.• Jack Butler really didn't like the idea that he had been nobbled and worse than that, nobbled by a girl.• Stop it Gary, you're worse than the kids!• His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt.
worse than• The damage to the house is worse than I expected.• My knee feels worse than it did yesterday.
getting worse• I told him that the weather was horrendous on Tiree also, with cloud and heavy rain, and getting worse.• In some cases indicators of deprivation are getting worse.• So it just kept getting worse.• The report said that the goal of natural quiet had not been achieved and that aircraft noise was getting worse.• The weather was certainly getting worse.• And he'd been getting worse, no doubt about that.• Today it has been worse and it is getting worse now.• I though when they won the league they were bad but it is getting worse with each passing day.
worse2 ●●● S3 W2 adverbadv [the comparative of badly]
WORSEin a more severe or serious way than before 更嚴重地；更厲害地 → better
worse than
By lunch time it was raining worse than ever.
到午飯時間，雨下得更大了。
[sentence adverbadv 句子副詞]
The business could become less profitable or, even worse, could close down.
公司可能會出現盈利減少，甚至有可能倒閉。
Suppose Rose, or worse still, Peter had seen the photograph?
假如羅斯，甚至說彼得，已經看到了照片呢？
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worse• No one sings worse than I do.• My foot hurts even worse today.
or worse still• Back to the world's pity, or worse still, contempt.• He had become something other, or worse still, perhaps he had always been.• He may come round, or worse still, spill some of the facts in his sleep or something like that.
worse3 noun [uncountableU]
1  WORSEsomething worse 更差[壞]的事物 → better
We thought the situation was bad, but worse was to follow.
我們覺得當時形勢很糟，但更糟的還在後頭。
2  take a turn for the worse WORSEto change and become worse 變糟，變差
Last year his health took a turn for the worse.
去年他的健康狀況開始惡化。
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take a turn for the worse• Stock prices have taken a turn for the worse.
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worse• This movie was bad, but I've seen worse.
Origin worse1
Old English wiersa, wyrsa

worse

worse
1  → comparative of bad at bad
2  → comparative of badly at badly

See also: bad

See also: badly

BNC: 6841 COCA: 25899
worse

adjective

VERBS | ADVERB | PHRASES VERBS➤be, feel, look, seem更壞；感覺更差；看上去更糟糕；似乎更差◇I feel even worse today!我今天感覺更差！➤become, get, grow越來越差；越來越嚴重◇The problem is getting worse all the time.問題一直在惡化。◇The pain grew worse.疼痛越來越厲害了。➤make sth把⋯弄得更糟◇Ignoring the problem will make it worse.忽視這個問題會把情況弄得更糟。ADVERB➤considerably, dramatically, far, a good deal, a great deal, infinitely, a lot, much, significantly明顯更差；顯然更糟糕；差得多；糟糕得多◇It's much worse for the parents than it is for the child.這對父母的影響比對孩子更嚴重。◇The news got dramatically worse.消息變得越來越糟糕。◇Things were about to get very much worse.情況將變得糟糕得多。➤almost幾乎更差◇The area seemed almost worse than the city he had left.這個地區似乎比他離開的那個城市還要糟。➤a little, rather, slightly, substantially稍微差一點兒；相當差；略微差一些；差很多▸➤progressively, steadily越來越差；逐漸嚴重◇The problem became progressively worse.問題變得越來越嚴重。➤even, still更差；更糟糕◇We've run out of coffee. Worse still, we can't get any more until tomorrow.咖啡已經喝完了。更糟糕的是，我們必須等到明天才能有新的。PHRASES➤no, not any並不更差◇He's no better and no worse than yesterday.與昨天相比他既沒變得更好也沒更糟。
BNC: 6841 COCA: 25899
worse adj.
⇨ come off worse ⇨ lose verb ⇨ get worse ⇨ worsen verb ⇨ make sth worse ⇨ weaken verb
BNC: 6841 COCA: 25899
worse
Worse: worse, inferior, impoverished...
Feeling and being unhealthy or ill: ill, frail, unfit...
Changes for the worse: contamination, regression, lapse...

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