scrawny
['skrɔ:ni]
adj.瘦的, 骨瘦如柴的
例句与用法:
Your beautiful handwriting puts my untidy scrawl to shame.
你漂亮的字体把我的潦草字迹比得见不得人。
Can you decipher her scrawl?
你能辩认出她乱写的是什么吗?
Who's scrawled all over the wall?
是谁把墙划得这么难看?
Her signature was an illegible scrawl.
她的签字潦草难辩。
She scrawled a few words on the postcard.
她在明信片上草草地写了几个字。
词形变化:
形容词比较级: scrawnier | 形容词最高级: scrawniest | 名词: scrawniness |
a.
【美】瘦的; 骨瘦如柴的
scrawny
形容词比较级:scrawnier
形容词最高级:scrawniest
词形变化:
形容词比较级: scrawnier | 形容词最高级: scrawniest | 名词: scrawniness |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.瘦的
lean
thin
skinny
spare
gaunt
lanky
bony
同义参见:
peaked
lean2
meager
lank
反义参见:
obese
scrawny['skrɔ:ni]adj.1.■皮包骨的,骨瘦如柴的2.■矮小的,低矮的变形adj.scrawnierscrawniest
scrawnyscrawny[ˈskrɔ:ni]adj.1.■[美俗]细而瘦的, 皮包骨的; 营养不良的a scrawny beast一头瘦牲口
继承用法-ninessn.
(scrawnier, scrawniest)
- (of a person or animal) unattractively thin and bony
(人,动物)瘦得难看的,皮包骨的
■(of vegetation) meagre or stunted
(草木)瘦弱的,矮小的,发育受阻的
scrawniness
noun
语源
- mid 19th cent.: variant of dialect scranny; compare with archaic scrannel 'weak, feeble (referring to sound) '
scrawny
形容词 scrawny:
being very thin
同义词:scraggy, boney, skinny, underweight, weedy
inferior in size or quality
scrawny
■Mickey Mouse arrived on the world's cultural stage 75 years ago as a scrawny but buoyant black-and-white product of the Jazz Age.
75年前,生于爵士乐时代的米老鼠在世界文艺舞台上崭露头角。这个黑白相间的小家伙骨瘦如柴,但却活泼可爱。
■Skinny and scrawny are negative and can suggest lack of strength
skinny 和scrawny 都是贬义词,表示无力
■‘At the moment I am thin and scrawny,’ said the dog, ‘but my owners are about to celebrate a wedding, so if you let me go now, I'll get fattened up and you can make a meal of me later on.
‘我现在瘦骨如柴,’狗说道,‘可是我的主人马上就要举办一场婚礼,如果你放了我,我就会胖起来,你也就能够饱餐一顿了。’
■He [had] a long, scrawny neck that rose out of a very low collar"(Winston Churchill).
“他瘦长的脖子,从开口很低的衣领中伸出来”(温斯顿·丘吉尔)。
■"He[had] a long, scrawny neck that rose out of a very low collar" (Winston Churchill).
“他瘦长的脖子,从开口很低的衣领中伸出来”(温斯顿·丘吉尔)。
■For more than an hour a scrawny guy sat at bar staring into his glass.
一个骨瘦如柴的人坐在酒吧里眼瞪着自己的酒杯已超过一个小时。
■For more than an hour a scrawny guy sat at a bar staring into his glass.
一个骨瘦如柴的年轻人坐在酒吧盯着自己的酒杯看了一个多小时。
■One day a scrawny little man came up and said in a low voice, "I'd like to try the bet.
一天,一个瘦小男人走来并低声说:"我愿打这个赌。"
■a scrawny beast
一头瘦牲口
■A damned mule," she repeated, looking indignantly at the scrawny beast.
一头该死的骡子! "她重复说。 所以地瞧着那只瘦弱的畜生。
■In March, a scrawny cry from outside
三月里,外面传来一声纤细的啼鸣
■Two months later, one lion is scrawny and beat up, the other is fat and happy.
两个月后,其一骨瘦如柴、挨了不少揍,另一个却显得很富态。
■Stepping on a chairthat wobbled under him, he would knot a noose round his scrawny neck, test it,yank it, gyrate his neck like a pigeon and step out into the void.
他会跳上一把摇摇晃晃的椅子,在瘦骨嶙峋的脖子上打上一个绳套,先试一下,然后猛地一拉,把脖子扭得象一只鸽子,接着跳下椅子悬在半空中。
■He is an unhappy, scrawny youth, in his hysterical way he is expressing the fears and doubts of many young people. He is wonderful, unsettling, and strangely innocent.
他是个不幸的,骨瘦如柴的青年,通过他自己歇斯底里的方式,他表达了许多年轻人内心的恐惧和疑惑。他是如此的令人惊奇,让人不安而且奇怪的清白!
■He's a scrawny , greyfaced man, who looks half-starved, and he's always very slovenly in appearance.
他是个瘦骨棱棱,脸色发灰的人,活象没吃饱饭,外表总是非常邋遢。
■His short, scrawny frame was covered in thick furs, a sign of high status, and rich clothing lay in a pile nearby.
他枯瘦矮小的身上盖着一层厚厚的毛皮。
■He [had] a long, scrawny neck that rose out of a very low collar
他瘦长的脖子,从开口很低的衣领中伸出来
■He [ had ] a long,scrawny neck that rose out of a very low collar(Winston Churchill.
他瘦长的脖子,从开口很低的衣领中伸出来(温斯顿·丘吉尔)。
■He had long scrawny fingers.
他的手指又瘦又长。
■He also noticed five scrawny children peeking at him from behind various pieces of furniture.
他还注意到了五个骨瘦如材的孩子躲在拼拼凑凑的几件家具后面偷偷地瞅着自己.
■" He goes into the freezer and discovers that there's only one scrawny turkey left.
他进了冷藏室,发现只剩下一只瘦得可怜的火鸡了。
■Amazingly, one in 50 wished they looked like scrawny junkie rocker Pete Doherty.
令人惊讶的是,2%的男人竟然希望自己的体型能和骨瘦如柴的吸毒摇滚青年彼得·多赫提一样。
■CLEVELAND - A scrawny, black and white female kitten has apparently survived a trip across the Pacific Ocean and North America inside a shipping crate.
克利夫兰-貌似这只骨瘦如柴,长着黑白条纹的小母猫竟然呆在板条箱里挨过了这场横跨太平洋、北美的旅途。
■Christine put an arm around him, aware of his scrawny shoulders
克里丝汀用手臂扶着他,感觉到他那骨瘦如柴的肩膀。
■A few scrawny chickens were scratching around the yard.
几只瘦骨嶙峋的鸡正在院子周围刨来刨去。
■eg:Cathy wants a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp.
凯西要一个健美的男友,而不是瘦弱的软脚虾.
■Arnold Schwarzenegger, the California governor, once joked that he had "scrawny arms" and that he would make Mr Obama "do some squats".
加州州长阿诺德-施瓦辛格就曾开玩笑说奥巴马的“胳膊细得像竹竿”,并称他应该让奥巴马“做一些蹲举运动”。
■It's the story of a 900 pound domesticated grizzly bear named Boog and a scrawny, one horned mule deer named Elliot, who find themselves stranded in the woods together during hunting season.
动画讲的是在狩猎季节到来时,被困于森林中,处境危险的两只动物:一只900磅重的马戏团棕熊布格和一只瘦骨嶙峋的独角麋鹿埃利奥特。
■He was pushing on the barrier with the flat of his hands when he noticed his arms, how thin and scrawny they were.
卡森用手抵住结界,支撑着整个身体的重量,他发现自己的双臂似乎已变得无比瘦弱。
■She never mentioned how ludicrous it was to imagine her 4)scrawny, slow-footed son playing pro ball.
可是,她从来没有说过,想象一下自己那个骨瘦如柴、磨磨蹭蹭的儿子打职业赛的场面,就会觉得滑稽可笑。
■The scrawny young soldier, forgoing any subtleties, merely rubbed his fingers together in an age-old gesture.
因为那位骨瘦如柴的年轻士兵,一点也不注意巧妙手法,仅仅只是用一种古老的方式来表达意思:把手指并在一起揉了揉。
■Several scrawny cottonwood trees do not usually generate much excitement in the world of ecology.
在生态学世界中,几株瘦骨嶙峋的三角叶杨通常没什么好令人兴奋的。
■On the ninth tee, he surveyed the landscape: scrawny mesquite trees, dying grass, sand and a tick-ridden jack rabbit.
在第九发球区,他环视了一下周围的景色,见到的是瘦小的牧豆树、快要凋谢的花草、沙土,还有一只受虱蝇折磨的长耳野兔。
■In the neighbourhood of the elephant shed, there was a scrawny, poorly fed, stray dog.
在象棚的旁边住着一只骨瘦如柴常常半饥半饱的流浪狗。
■Here Oliphant makes Bush out to be a scrawny beast, not the muscular and rather cuddly sort of working dog that most real seeing-eye dogs are
在这里,奥列芬特把布什画成一只很瘦的动物,而不是像大多数真导盲犬那样的健壮而可爱的狗。
■Elliot is a scrawny,fast-talking,missing an antler mule deer,and is strapped to the hood of a truck - courtesy of thehunter Shaw.
埃利奥特这只瘦骨嶙峋的长耳鹿,还失去了一支角,但说起话来却像连珠炮一样快。
■Eric Seal thought the scrawny puppy at his feet was perhaps five weeks old.
埃里克·西尔想,他脚旁骨瘦如柴的小狗也许有5周大。
■Large packs of scrawny dogs wander aimlessly in search of food through rubbish-strewn red desert camps.
大群大群瘦得皮包骨头的狗漫无目的地穿梭于扔满垃圾的沙漠红色营地之间,寻找着食物。
■They were convalescing slowly and lay scrawny and weak in their bed.
她们在慢慢康复,但仍然消瘦而虚弱地躺在床上。
■If we, the rich, value these forests as forests and not as pastures for scrawny cattle, then we must find ways to reward financially the countries that keep forests intact.
如果我们这些有钱人认为森林具有其价值,不能用来畜养瘦巴巴的牛只,我们就必须想办法对这些国家施以经济援助,方能保护森林不受破坏。
■LifeWire) -- For singles suffering from Goldilocks syndrome -- this person's too beefy, that one's too scrawny;
对于每位有着“高蒂亚和三只小熊”症状----这家伙太强壮,那家伙太骨瘦弱;
■Still, even that blank, slightly off-centre beauty has proved useful: she can be polished to luminous, Grace Kelly fragility or reduced to looking like a scrawny junkie in need of rehab.
尽管如此,她所拥有的纯粹的,略微偏离主流的美貌也是强大的:一瞬间,她可以像格雷斯凯利那般优雅脆弱;另一瞬间,她又可以成为一个潦倒的瘾君子。
■Flat sand stretching away, a few scrawny bushes in clumps here and there.The bushes were blue, too, but in varying shades, some lighter than the blue of the sand, some darker.
平坦的沙地向前延伸开,其间遍布着数丛同样蓝色的矮树,在光线的映衬下,数浅数深。
■We enjoyed the big old trees (all the trees in Teda are young and scrawny) and a fresh aired day.
我们非常享受这里古老的参天大树(泰达所有的树都是新种的并且骨瘦如柴)和这空气清新的一天。
■I am a scrawny old rooster with a great sense of humour who loves to travel and is looking for a gentle sensitive snake to love and share the rest of my life with.
我是个很瘦的老男人,有很好的幽默感,爱旅行,寻找一个温和,敏感的人相爱,共度余生.
■2.I want a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp.
我要一个健美的男朋友,而不是一个瘦弱的软脚虾。
■perhaps now he, too, looked this scrawny and wild.
所以也许,他自己看上去也跟这个精灵一样,骨瘦如柴、野性十足。
■Way back in the deep woods there lived a scrawny old woman who had a reputation for being the best conjuring woman in the Ozarks.
方式后面在那里深森林居住有名誉在是上最佳的召唤的妇女在奥扎克族印第安人的一个骨瘦如柴的老妇人。
■One day this scrawny little man came in, wearing thick glasses and a polyester suit, and said in a tiny, squeaky voice, "I'd like to try the bet.
某天有个戴著厚重眼镜穿著便宜货瘦骨嶙峋 的傢伙走进来,他用微弱尖锐的声音说, "我想试试看。"
■Winston sprang to attention in front of the telescreen, upon which the image of a youngish woman, scrawny but muscular, dressed in tunic and gym-shoes, had already appeared.
温斯顿跳到电幕前面,来了个立正。 电幕上早出现了个年轻女人,瘦骨嶙峋的,然而刚健有力,身穿紧身上衣,脚蹬体操鞋。