chronically
adv. 慢性地,长期地
A chronic illness or disability lasts for a very long time.
...chronic back pain.
慢性背痛
You can describe someone's bad habits or behaviour as chronic when they have behaved like that for a long time and do not seem to be able to stop themselves.
Anyone who does not believe that smoking is an addiction has never been a chronic smoker.
不相信抽烟能上瘾的人肯定不是老烟民。
...a chronic worrier.
总是忧心忡忡的人
A chronic situation or problem is very severe and unpleasant.
One cause of the artist's suicide seems to have been chronic poverty...
那位艺术家自杀的一个原因似乎是极端贫困。
There is a chronic shortage of patrol cars in this police district.
这个治安辖区严重缺乏巡逻车辆。
1. in a habitual and long-standing manner;
2. in a slowly developing and long lasting manner;
Research and technology are said to be chronically underfunded.
据说为研究和技术方面提供的经费严重不足。
Many factories were chronically overmanned.
很多工厂长期人浮于事。
Most of them were chronically ill.
他们多数人患有慢性病。
It is required by law to shut down banks which it regards as chronically short of capital.
法律规定资金长期短缺的银行必须关闭。
Similarly, any pigment nevus that is chronically irritated should be excised.
同样, 凡是经常受慢性刺激的各种色素痣切勿予以切除.