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词汇 low-grade
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Definition of low-grade in English:

low-grade

adjective ˈləʊɡreɪdˈloʊ ˌɡreɪd
  • 1Of low quality or standard.

    质量差的,劣等的;低强度的

    low-grade steel

    劣质钢铁。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It certainly is sloppy, low-grade journalism.
    • He is not concerned about the loss of agricultural land because it is only classified as low-grade.
    • I spent $2.09/gallon at the pump this morning and it's only the low-grade gas I buy!
    • Only until about 10 years ago, all of India's coffee was bought up by the Government - at a universal price and with expectation of seven year's credit - and sold as low-grade blends.
    • The low-grade kangaroo meat used in the sausages is in a different class from the high-quality prime cuts that reach Moscow's pricier restaurants via Europe.
    • It takes low-grade coal and reprocesses it into cleaner, high-grade fuel.
    • The low-grade steel, which was given zero rust protection at the Naples plant, was just about acceptable in the warm, dry climate of the south.
    • Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
    • China has been restructuring its steel industry, increasingly replacing low-grade domestic iron ore with imported iron ore of better quality.
    • She said: ‘The site is low-grade agricultural land within a developed area and inside the ring road.’
    • There has been no meaningful talk between the sides on what really ails the sport: the low-grade quality of the games themselves.
    • But there is one thing everyone should be careful about - many peddlers deliberately place some fakes among the low-grade antiques.
    • Not too long ago, these inexpensive loads were assembled using soft, low-grade shot and cheap wads.
    • While preserving the green belt is an important consideration, especially in an expanding, crowded city such as York, it is hard to see much value in the low-grade agricultural land in question.
    • The quality of the photographs could be considered low-grade.
    • In place of skills, knowledge and seams developed over generations came ‘cheap’ imports of low-grade coal and the return to open-cast mining.
    • If this had been a low-grade horror film with bad special effects, I probably wouldn't have been so frightened; the consequences of going against Allah's will were far more terrifying.
    • The film has a very low-grade videotape visual quality, which I'm willing to bet stems from the low budget and heavy use of available light; nevertheless, it's still rather ugly.
    • Local enterprise is most notably defined by underemployment, low-grade food processing plants and Chapelcross, a decommissioned nuclear power plant.
    • This is the new moneyed middle class of India, an outward-looking group, no longer willing to accept the low-grade food and worse service that was the norm when government restaurants and hotels dominated the service industry.
    Synonyms
    poor-quality, inferior, substandard, below standard, second-rate
    shoddy, cheap, shabby, reject, rubbishy, trashy, junky, bargain-basement, gimcrack
    poor, bad, unsatisfactory, not up to par, not up to scratch
    mediocre
    informal tinpot
    British informal duff, ropy, twopenny-halfpenny
    North American informal two-bit, bum, cheapjack, a dime a dozen, low-rent, tinhorn
    1. 1.1 At a low level in a salary or employment structure.
      薪金(或职业层次)低的
      low-grade clerical jobs

      级别低的文员工作。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • At the time, he was a civilian assisting in the force's computer unit doing low-grade jobs such as imaging and downloading files.
      • It's the people in low-grade jobs who have less power and more anxiety.
      • In some cases feminising occupations offered men high and rising wages relative to other men, in others-such as low-grade service jobs, men's wages were relatively low and falling.
      • Companies have to move faster and we should applaud those that let low-grade jobs go offshore.
      • Do the people holding low-grade office and factory jobs have what it takes for the information age?
      • In the Invergordon job centre most of the jobs advertised seem to be low-grade, local authority work.
      • His security clearance was immediately withdrawn and he was moved to a low-grade administrative job.
      • White people had the power, control, resources and the empire; black people were perceived as exotic immigrants doing the low-grade jobs and disfiguring the landscape as well as the labour and housing markets.
      • He gives little sense of the place of the poor in the information/service economy, which is important as many low-grade data entry jobs are being farmed out to the Third World.
    2. 1.2 (of a medical condition) of a less serious kind; minor.
      (病状)不严重的;轻微的
      a low-grade malignancy

      轻度恶性。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Malt lymphomas are low-grade malignancies, and progression to a high-grade lymphoma is rare, occurring in less than 10% of cases.
      • Physical examination showed low-grade fever and a slightly tender, markedly enlarged spleen.
      • During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
      • Tick-borne diseases typically begin with a low-grade fever, headache, malaise, and possibly a rash.
      • Patients with giant cell arteritis often have a variety of other symptoms, such as malaise, fatigue, low-grade fever, anorexia, weight loss, myalgias or arthralgias.

Definition of low-grade in US English:

low-grade

adjectiveˈlō ˌɡrādˈloʊ ˌɡreɪd
  • 1Of low quality or strength.

    质量差的,劣等的;低强度的

    low-grade steel

    劣质钢铁。

    low-grade fuels

    劣质钢铁。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • It certainly is sloppy, low-grade journalism.
    • He is not concerned about the loss of agricultural land because it is only classified as low-grade.
    • While preserving the green belt is an important consideration, especially in an expanding, crowded city such as York, it is hard to see much value in the low-grade agricultural land in question.
    • The quality of the photographs could be considered low-grade.
    • It takes low-grade coal and reprocesses it into cleaner, high-grade fuel.
    • If this had been a low-grade horror film with bad special effects, I probably wouldn't have been so frightened; the consequences of going against Allah's will were far more terrifying.
    • Local enterprise is most notably defined by underemployment, low-grade food processing plants and Chapelcross, a decommissioned nuclear power plant.
    • China has been restructuring its steel industry, increasingly replacing low-grade domestic iron ore with imported iron ore of better quality.
    • But there is one thing everyone should be careful about - many peddlers deliberately place some fakes among the low-grade antiques.
    • The low-grade steel, which was given zero rust protection at the Naples plant, was just about acceptable in the warm, dry climate of the south.
    • Men and women everywhere hawked government-controlled newspapers printed on a grayish, low-grade newsprint no doubt full of comparably dull propaganda.
    • She said: ‘The site is low-grade agricultural land within a developed area and inside the ring road.’
    • The low-grade kangaroo meat used in the sausages is in a different class from the high-quality prime cuts that reach Moscow's pricier restaurants via Europe.
    • Only until about 10 years ago, all of India's coffee was bought up by the Government - at a universal price and with expectation of seven year's credit - and sold as low-grade blends.
    • The film has a very low-grade videotape visual quality, which I'm willing to bet stems from the low budget and heavy use of available light; nevertheless, it's still rather ugly.
    • I spent $2.09/gallon at the pump this morning and it's only the low-grade gas I buy!
    • In place of skills, knowledge and seams developed over generations came ‘cheap’ imports of low-grade coal and the return to open-cast mining.
    • There has been no meaningful talk between the sides on what really ails the sport: the low-grade quality of the games themselves.
    • This is the new moneyed middle class of India, an outward-looking group, no longer willing to accept the low-grade food and worse service that was the norm when government restaurants and hotels dominated the service industry.
    • Not too long ago, these inexpensive loads were assembled using soft, low-grade shot and cheap wads.
    Synonyms
    poor-quality, inferior, substandard, below standard, second-rate
    1. 1.1 At a low level in a salary or employment structure.
      薪金(或职业层次)低的
      low-grade clerical jobs

      级别低的文员工作。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • Companies have to move faster and we should applaud those that let low-grade jobs go offshore.
      • Do the people holding low-grade office and factory jobs have what it takes for the information age?
      • White people had the power, control, resources and the empire; black people were perceived as exotic immigrants doing the low-grade jobs and disfiguring the landscape as well as the labour and housing markets.
      • At the time, he was a civilian assisting in the force's computer unit doing low-grade jobs such as imaging and downloading files.
      • In some cases feminising occupations offered men high and rising wages relative to other men, in others-such as low-grade service jobs, men's wages were relatively low and falling.
      • In the Invergordon job centre most of the jobs advertised seem to be low-grade, local authority work.
      • It's the people in low-grade jobs who have less power and more anxiety.
      • He gives little sense of the place of the poor in the information/service economy, which is important as many low-grade data entry jobs are being farmed out to the Third World.
      • His security clearance was immediately withdrawn and he was moved to a low-grade administrative job.
    2. 1.2 (of a medical condition) of a less serious kind; minor.
      (病状)不严重的;轻微的
      a low-grade fever

      劣质钢铁。

      Example sentencesExamples
      • During the long, cruel month of February, waiting for my delinquent digestive system to kick in, I had contracted low-grade pneumonia.
      • Malt lymphomas are low-grade malignancies, and progression to a high-grade lymphoma is rare, occurring in less than 10% of cases.
      • Physical examination showed low-grade fever and a slightly tender, markedly enlarged spleen.
      • Tick-borne diseases typically begin with a low-grade fever, headache, malaise, and possibly a rash.
      • Patients with giant cell arteritis often have a variety of other symptoms, such as malaise, fatigue, low-grade fever, anorexia, weight loss, myalgias or arthralgias.
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