puny
['pju:ni]
adj.微小的, 瘦弱的, 微不足道的
例句与用法:
That from the last ding-dong of doom and clang had faded from the last worthless rock hanging tireless in the last red and dying evening, that even then, there will be one more sound, that of his puny and inexhaustible voice still talking.
说即使最后一次钟声已经消失,消失的再也没有潮水冲刷的映在落日余晖里的海上最后一块无用礁石之旁时,还会有一个声音,人类微弱的、不断的说话声,这也很容易。
Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.
他看上去虽然瘦弱,但人很勇敢。
They laughed at my puny efforts at rock-climbing.
他们取笑我在攀岩活动中的那可怜劲儿。
What a puny creature!
多瘦小啊!
词形变化:
副词: punily | 形容词比较级: punier | 形容词最高级: puniest | 名词: puniness |
a.
微小的; 弱小的; 次要的
puny
形容词比较级:punier
形容词最高级:puniest
词形变化:
副词: punily | 形容词比较级: punier | 形容词最高级: puniest | 名词: puniness |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.微小的; 弱小的
weak
meager
slight
little
small
frail
delicate
fragile
a.小的, 不重要的
petty
unimportant
trivial
同义参见:
tiny
short
反义参见:
great
grave2
grand
important
strong
puny['pju:ni]adj.1.■小的;弱的2.■不重要的;细微的;次要的3.■[废语]卑贱的;年轻的变形adj.punierpuniest
punypuny[ˈpju:ni]adj.1.■短小的, 弱小的; 软弱的2.■细微的; 不重要的
[ˈpjuːni]
(punier, puniest)
- small and weak
弱小的,微弱的
skeletal, white-faced, puny children.
瘦骨嶙峋、脸色苍白、弱不禁风的孩子们。
■poor in quality, amount, or size
质差的;量少的;体小的
the army was reduced to a puny 100,000 men.
部队仅剩下了十万人。
punily
adverb
puniness
noun
语源
- mid 16th cent. (as a noun denoting a younger or more junior person): phonetic spelling of puisne
puny
形容词 puny:
inferior in strength or significance
(used especially of persons) of inferior size
puny
■As for recycling, the 9,500 tonnes of electronics Apple says it has recycled since 1994 is puny given the amount of equipment the firm sells, says Ms Al-Hajj.
Al-Hajj女士表示,在回收方面,苹果所称从1994年以来共回收的9500吨电子产品与其销量相比微不足道。
■CLS21-II metallized polypropylene capacitors have low dissipation factor, stable capacitance, puny thermoguotiety. They can steadily work on logic control circuits &integral circuits and phase etc of instruments.
II型金属化聚碳酸酯电容器损耗小,电容量稳定,温度系数小,能稳定地工作在精密仪器、仪表的逻辑控制电路,积分电路等场合。
■Looking at these skyscrapers and these lighted windows in a row at night, one gets more and more conceited about the power of human civilization and forgets what puny little creatures human beings are.
一个人看见这些摩天楼和夜间的一列有灯光的窗户时,对于人类文明的力量越发感到骄傲而自负,而忘记人类是多么孱弱而渺小的动物。
■Pray tell us how a public meeting was held in June 2002 for the MPPP project to upgrade and beautify Little India -a project which was puny in comparison to the PGCC.
一再举办?请记得,迄今根本未为计划办过任何一场的公共听证会(不仅针对民众,甚至是附近居民而言)。
■Usually, just harpies, medusa heads, fleaman with birds and some other puny monsters.
一般来说,不过是一些诸如鹰身女妖,美杜沙头,空降跳蚤人等等并不算厉害的对手。
■Don't pit your puny wit against my massive intelligence.
不要拿你的小聪明来对付我高深的智慧。
■Nevertheless, the actual strength of independent network business still slants for opposite Beijing, Shanghai puny, those who need to get all walks of life is farther guide with give aid to.
不过,独立网商的实力相对北京、上海来说仍偏弱小,需要得到各界的进一步引导与扶持。
■These were puny compared to the bulk of the whale, so they were probably vestigial, in the slow process of disappearing.
与鲸鱼庞大的躯体比较这些腿显得微不足道,它们可能是腿部慢慢消失过程中退化的腿部。
■There are no Orientals as puny and ill-suited to wearing a uniform as the Vietnamese
东方民族没有像安南人那样形状委琐不配穿制服的。
■Puny though he looked, he was as brave as lion.
中文:他看上去虽然瘦弱,但人很勇敢。
■It is remarkable that the stature of this population should have diminished in the last fifty years and the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Revolution.
五十年来,人民的材又缩小了,这是值得注意的,巴黎四郊的人民,比革命前更矮小了。
■People have pathetically puny teeth and claws compared with the armaments of other dominant species.
人类的牙齿和爪子比起其他占优势的物种,弱得可怜。
■Once there was a puny little concert violinist named Rudolf, who lived in Sweden.
从前在瑞典,有一身材瘦弱矮小的小提琴手,名叫鲁道夫。
■They laughed at my puny efforts at rock-climbing
他们取笑我在攀岩活动中的那可怜劲儿。
■They laughed at my puny efforts.
他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。
■He seated himself on a wooden bench, with his back against a decrepit vine,he gazed at the stars, past the puny and stunted silhouettes of his fruit-trees.
他坐在一条木凳上,靠着一个朽了的葡萄架,穿过那些果树的瘦弱蜷屈的暗影,仰望群星。
■He fumed over the fact that the Luftwaffe could hit his capital, but the puny bomber arm of the V-VS (Voyenno-Vozdushny Sili, or Red Air Forces) could not strike back.Or could they?
他对德国空军能袭击首都的事冒火,但弱小的V-VS(Voyenno-VozdushnySili,红空军)装备的轰炸机是否能回击?
■He hoped that he could caress his cheek with his wings and kiss her on the forehead with his fine mouth, but his puny body is not big enough to be noticed by her.
他想用自己的翅膀抚摸她的脸,用细小的觜来亲吻她的额头,然而他弱小的身体还是不足已被她发现。
■"Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion."
他看上去虽然瘦弱,但人很勇敢。
■Which is puny compared with some Australian earthworms that can be three meters long.
但是跟澳洲某些可长达三公尺的蚯蚓比起来,仍小得多。
■That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players.
你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。
■You will find the world of name and form vanishing into void, and the puny ego dissolving in Brahman-Consciousness.
你会发现世上的名相会消失于空无,微不足道的自我会溶解入梵天意识。
■BD: You've robbed me of a meal, puny though it may have been.
你抢了我一餐饭,虽然或许只是道小菜。
■Do business between the market that the government of dispersive, individual, puny farmer and layer class numerous and jumbled, twinking alternates, the discretion of force decides Bo Yizhi outcome.
分散、单个、弱小的农户与层级庞杂的政府、瞬息变换的市场之间进行交易,力量之高低决定博弈之结局。
■The first time I came across a fornidable foe,I desperately bemoaned my tiny stature.I was too puny to protect myself.
初次遭遇强敌,我在心里拼命地抱怨自己太小,小得不足以保卫自己。
■It makes use of the synaesthesis of color including changes in temperature, light or heavy, strong or puny, advance or retreat, soft or hard unites function esthetics and art esthetics.
利用色彩心理效应所体现出的冷暖感、轻重感、强弱感、进退感、软硬感统一色彩的功能美和艺术美。
■She is puny, but also is the reincarnation of the strength.
前 言它弱小,但一样是力的化身!
■Some doctors are pretty puny characters
医生中也不乏庸庸碌碌之辈。
■Roughly half of all military spending in the world is American.Even potential adversaries in a conventional war spend puny sums in comparison.
即使把传统战争中潜在敌人的微小开支也计算在内,美国的军费开支大约是全球军费支出的一半。
■Advertisers and television networks have pushed back even against this puny threat.They have developed relatively static advertisements that get a message across even at high speed.
即使面对如此小的威胁,广告商及电视网络公司也采取了相应对策:推行一种相对静态的广告(非常高速的传递信息);
■THE SCIENTISTS WHO ATTEND that conference will no doubt commiserate about the inherent difficulty of engineering a relatively puny stretch of DNA to work reliably within a cell that is constantly changing.
即将参加这场会议的科学家到时便能体认,要让DNA这麽微小的东西在细胞中稳定地运作,是多麽困难的事情,毕竟细胞是不断在变动的。
■Not fully grown; puny.
发育不全的未长足的,弱小的
■Real median family income over the same period grew 36 percent, not the puny 4 percent in the official statistics that deflate by the CPI.
同期中等家庭的真实收入增长了36%,不是根据官方统计的CPI收缩了微小的4%。
■My loss is puny compared with his.
和他相比,我的损失微不足道。
■Do be proud, The puny grass, It is only you that decorates the whole world.
四八弱小的草呀骄傲些罢,只有你普遍装点了世界。
■When he dissolved parliament in July to hold the elections, the LDP held 300 seats.NHK's count showed it had won 119 seats so far, almost the same as the puny number the DPJ held before the elections.
在其7月解散国会举行大选时,自民党拥有300个席位,而NHK的数据显示,目前席位仅剩下119个,正如大选前民主党拥有极少的数目几乎相同。
■In both situations, the big state feels a sense of grievance over the very existence of its puny neighbour and resents outsiders that act as its self-appointed protectors.
在这两个案例中,大国抱怨其弱小邻居过于明显的存在,也怨恨外人自顾自的担任这些小国的保护者。
■The rugged forest is crowded with large fir trees and tall lodge pole pines, but they all look like puny twigs compared to the giant sequoia
在这片地势起伏的森林中,高大的冷杉和美国黑松随处可见,但与巨大的红杉相比,它们看起来都如小枝小条一般。
■Alien 2: I hate these puny undersized planets. The gravity is so different.
外星人2:我讨厌这些小不点的星球。重力是那么不一样。
■What a puny little creature!
多么瘦小哇!
■What a puny creature
多瘦小啊!
■Othello. I am not valiant neither, But ever puny whipster gets my sword: But why should honour outlive honesty? Let it go all.
奥瑟罗我的勇气也离我而去了,每一个孱弱的懦夫都可以夺下我的剑来。可是奸恶既然战胜了正直,哪里还会有荣誉存在呢?让一切都归于幻灭吧!
■" They love vanity, strong material, supercilious, fault-finding, artificial, great ambition but puny ability.
她们爱慕虚荣、物欲强烈、目中无人、挑剔、做作、眼高手低。
■She was of that puny sort which remains backward for a long time,then suddenly starts up rapidly.
她属于那种长期滞留,继又陡然猛长的病态孩子。
■If he had been small or puny or sickly or misshapen he would've been discarded.
如果他很瘦小或者羸弱或者多病或者畸形,他就会被丢弃。
■"If the children gathered about her, as they sometimes did, Pearl would grow positively terrible in her puny wrath,"
如果孩子们有时围起她来,她就发起小脾气,变得非常凶狠
■Puny and sorry as those lives were, they much resembled his own.
它们的生命是那样渺小,那样可怜,和他自己的非常相似。
■It has 8 gigabytes (GB) of flash storage and 512 megabytes of RAM, which is a bit puny.
它有8GB的快闪存储器和容量稍微少一些的512MB的RAM。
■Its high ideals, its steadfastness and spirit make all other studies puerile and puny in comparison.
它的较高理想、它的执着和精神,使所有其它学科比较起来较幼稚、微不足道。
■Antonio was a puny lad, and not strong enough to work
安东尼奥是个瘦小的小家伙,身体还不壮,还不能干活。