pokey

基本解释

An entire genre of television reality shows has grown up to supply ideas for turning that pokey back room into a place of cherry wood cabinets, polished granite and brushed aluminium.
一整套的电视真人秀已经成熟起来，向人们提供种种思路，将狭小的密室改造成一个满眼樱木橱柜、磨光花岗石和铮亮铝合金的世界。
In it the author poured scorn on Europe, an annoyingly fractured continent with its “dopey little countries”, “pokey borders”, “itty-bitty” languages and “Lilliputian” drinks measures.
作者在文中极力嘲笑欧洲为由愚蠢的小国、狭小的边界、各种小语种语言以及小酒量居民组成分裂的大陆，令人厌烦。
London is filled with oddball place names, from pokey alleyways to grand thoroughfares - and a tourism organization has launched a monthlong campaign to tell the city's history through its streets.
从小街深巷到大路通途，伦敦充满了各种奇怪的地名。曾有个旅行社开展了时长一个月的活动，仅仅是为了讲解整个城市街道的历史。

When we adjusted for the pokey rate of oceanic warming being observed, that figure dropped by half.
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To stay out of the pokey and hold on to their goods, collectors have to meet difficult legal standards.
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But they also suffer from cramped keyboards, dinky screens and relatively pokey processors.
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