■ ill

基本上是否定的意思，但这个否定是着重在“不相称”的差距上。

• ill-fitting shoes, clothes不合身的鞋子、衣服
• ill-gotten gains不义之财
• ill-mannered behavior失态的举止
• I can ill afford (to buy) another TV set.再买一台电视机，我就买不起了。
• The Soviet Union's struggling economy, hard hit by falling oil revenue, could ill afford another arms race. (The New York Review of Books, Nov. 04, 2004, p.26)苦苦挣扎中的苏联经济，因为石油收入下跌而受到沉重打击，再也经不起又一次军备竞赛了。
• Texas was a state Bush could ill afford to lose.德克萨斯州是布什输不起的一个州。
• Furthermore, the government's habit of promoting particular businesses sit ill with its purported aim of withdrawing from business altogether. (The Economist, June 1, 2003, p.41)更有甚者，政府的那种对特定企业加以扶持的习惯，同它所宣称的索性撤出产业界的宗旨南辕北辙。