1. There's a serious worry about patent offices and how you stop them from granting pretty ropey patents, " he said." 专利官员的业务和操守也让人非常担心， 究竟该如何阻止对那些简单的不能再简单的事物授予专利呢？
2. Bank of China's investments in ropey American mortgages are almost as much as the amount it raised in a Hong Kong share offering last year. 中国银行在蹩脚的次级信贷抵押上的投资额几乎与它去年由于在香港证交所股票上涨所带来的资金相等。
3. An archaic wooden door with two ropey orange lanterns, that's my first impression of it, totally different with other night bars I've ever been. 到了地方了，给我的第一印象就是一个破旧的木门，两盏破破的泛着桔光的灯笼，反正和我去过的那些酒吧差别很大。
英英解释
adj.
1. of or resembling rope (or ropes) in being long and strong
2. forming viscous or glutinous threads
3. (British informal) very poor in quality
