(adv.) in an imperfect or faulty way; 'The lobe was imperfectly developed'; 'Miss Bennet would not play at all amiss if she practiced more'- Jane Austen.
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The crust of the earth is a vast museum; but the natural collections have been imperfectly made, and only at long intervals of time. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
I am imperfectly consoled for this disappointment by the sacred pledge, the perished flower. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
In January of 1884, Wroblewski confirmed the liquefaction of hydrogen, which had been imperfectly accomplished by Cailletet before. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
This seemed to be true, so long as a genus was imperfectly known, and its species were founded upon a few specimens, that is to say, were provisional. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
There was a sound behind them, as of an imperfectly suppressed chuckle. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
Chinese history is still very imperfectly known to European students, and our accounts of the early records are particularly unsatisfactory. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
He stood wedged in the forum, imperfectly hearing a distant speaker. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
Harmoon's,' repeated Mr Rokesmith, seeming to have caught the sound imperfectly, 'Harmarn's. 查尔斯·狄更斯.我们共同的朋友.
But this imperfectly taught woman, whose phrases and habits were an odd patchwork, had a loyal spirit within her. 乔治·艾略特.米德尔马契.
Mr. Guppy saw us to the door with the air of one who was either imperfectly awake or walking in his sleep; and we left him there, staring. 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Betteredge gave his imperfectly-pointed pencil a preliminary lick with his tongue. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
In regard to the sterility of hybrids, in which the sexual elements are imperfectly developed, the case is somewhat different. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
The one is a finished work which received the last touches of the author: the other is imperfectly executed, and apparently unfinished. 柏拉图.理想国.
Uncouth and clumsy doors, windows and blinds, were framed on the simplest utilitarian basis, and a scanty supply of rude hand-made furniture imperfectly filled the simple wants of the home. Edward W. Byrn.十九世纪发明进展.
Islam had made millions of converts, and had digested those millions very imperfectly. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I have described very imperfectly a few of the battles and skirmishes that took place during this time. 尤利西斯·格兰特.U.S.格兰特的个人回忆录.
It is not my business to relate it imperfectly, on hearsay evidence. 威尔基·柯林斯.白衣女人.
She had read Miss Crawford's note only once, and how to reply to anything so imperfectly understood was most distressing. 简·奥斯汀.曼斯菲尔德庄园.
The largest of the two pirate ships was commanded by a Japanese captain, who spoke a little Dutch, but very imperfectly. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Mr. Bruff himself was looking eagerly through a crevice left in the imperfectly-drawn curtains of the bed. 威尔基·柯林斯.月亮宝石.
I have put these considerations to you, my dear Sir, very feebly and imperfectly, but I ask you to think of them. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
This is a very important subject, most imperfectly understood, and no doubt wholly different classes of facts may be here easily confounded together. 查尔斯·达尔文.物种起源.
You are perfectly pleasant; I am imperfectly pleasant; then, if I never allude to an unpleasant matter, how much less should you! 查尔斯·狄更斯.荒凉山庄.
Those were the days of pen and ink and the imperfectly developed typewriter. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The shaded light showed Miss Keeldar's form but imperfectly; yet it revealed her in elegant attire. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Yet how could we congratulate ourselves on any event thus imperfectly fulfilled? 玛丽·雪莱.最后一个人.
This is not true, as they are imperfectly cut. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
They were imperfectly performed, as he was not very expert; but, being on a subject quite new to me, they equally surprised and pleased me. 本杰明·富兰克林.富兰克林自传.
But darkness came on fast, and the paths of the wood seemed but imperfectly known to the marauders. 沃尔特·司各特.艾凡赫.