inferior
a. 次等的, 较差的, 下方的, 下级的 n. 部下, 次品, 下标(符号)
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教材释义与例句
下级；次品
差的；自卑的；下级的，下等的
释义与例句
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1.
A person of lower rank, stature, or ability to another.
下属
As you are my inferior, I can tell you to do anything I want.
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2.
An inferior letter, figure, or symbol.
媒体 印刷
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Lower in rank, status, or quality.
低劣
低贱
Anna had always felt inferior to her brother due to poor school grades.
The pathological liar was morally inferior to his much nicer constituents.
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2.
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Of low rank, standard or quality.
an inferior officer
Due to the internet issue, the system generates an inferior audio file.
She detests visiting inferior places.
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3.
Lower in rank, status, or quality.
(of a court or tribunal) Susceptible to having its decisions overturned by a higher court.
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Lower in rank, status, or quality.
Denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes.
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Located below:
Situated further below (another part of the body), a direction that in humans corresponds to caudad.
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Located below:
Situated in a relatively low posterior or ventral position in a quadrupedal body.
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Located below:
Situated below some other organ (said of a calyx when free from the ovary, and therefore below it, or of an ovary with an adherent and therefore inferior calyx).
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Located below:
On the side of a flower which is next to the bract.
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Located below:
Printed in subscript.
媒体 印刷an inferior figure or letter
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Located below:
Below the horizon.
天文the inferior part of a meridian
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Nearer to the Sun than the Earth is.
天文the inferior or interior planets
an inferior conjunction of Mercury or Venus
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Borrowed from Latin īnferior (“lower in situation or place”), comparative of īnferus (“below, underneath”).
来源：wiktionary