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- lower in rank, status, or quality（等级）下级的, （地位）下等的, （质量）次的：
schooling in inner-city areas was inferior to that in the rest of the country.
市中心贫民区的学校教育次于全国其他地方。
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- of low standard or quality（水准, 质量）劣等的, 差的, 次的：
inferior goods.
次品。
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- Law (of a court or tribunal) able to have its decisions overturned by a higher court【律】（法庭, 特别法庭）下级的。
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- Economics denoting goods or services which are in greater demand during a recession than in a boom, for example second-hand clothes【经济】（商品, 服务）需求量在衰退期中较之繁荣期更大的, 低档的。
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- chiefly Anatomy low or lower in position【主剖】（位置）下方的, 下位的, 靠下的：
ulcers located in the inferior and posterior wall of the duodenum.
位于十二指肠下部和后部肠壁的溃疡。
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- (of a letter, figure, or symbol) written or printed below the line（字母, 数字, 符号）下标的。
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- Botany (of the ovary of a flower) situated below the sepals and enclosed in the receptacle【植】（子房）下位的, 在下的。
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- a person lower than another in rank, status, or ability下级, 下属; 能力低下者：
her social and intellectual inferiors.
社会地位和知识水平不如她的人。
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- Printing an inferior letter, figure, or symbol【印刷】下标字母; 下标数字; 下标符号。
派生词
inferiorly
adverb （限形容词义项2）词源
late Middle English (in sense 2): from Latin, comparative of inferus 'low'.