skimpy
['skimpi]
adj.(衣服等)尺寸小的, 不足的, 缺乏的, 吝啬的
例句与用法:
Use plenty of oil. Don't skimp!
多用些油. 别省著!
They have to skimp on fuel in winter.
冬天他们得节省燃料。
词形变化:
副词: skimpily | 形容词比较级: skimpier | 形容词最高级: skimpiest | 名词: skimpiness |
a.
1. 吝啬的
2. 缺乏的
3. 太小的
skimpy
形容词比较级:skimpier
形容词最高级:skimpiest
词形变化:
副词: skimpily | 形容词比较级: skimpier | 形容词最高级: skimpiest | 名词: skimpiness |
词义辨析:
同义:
a.缺乏的; 贫弱的
scanty
scarce
sparse
meager
同义参见:
little
tight
skimpy['skimpi]adj.1.■[口语]2.■不足的;不够的3.■过于节省的;吝啬的变形adj.skimpierskimpiest
见:skimp: skimpy
(skimpier, skimpiest)
- (of clothes) short and revealing
(衣服)短而裸露的
a skimpy dress.
一件裸露的短女装。
■providing or consisting of less than is needed; meager
不足的,不够的;贫乏的
my knowledge of music is extremely skimpy.
我对音乐的了解极其贫乏。
skimpily
adverb
skimpiness
noun
skimpy
■In 1961, G.M. was able to get away with a skimpy 2.5 percent increase in wages by also guaranteeing a 12 percent rise in pensions.
1961年,通用汽车做出养老金增加12%的保证,这才使得员工工资只增加2.5个百分点的计划得以通过。
■“I won't stand for skimpy towels;why should you?
“我不会提倡少用毛巾,你们怎么能那么做?”
■Ive been awarded an MA in Religious Studies, hold a 4th Dan Blackbelt in karate, started my professional life as a flautist, and love dancing Argentine tango wearing skimpy dresses.
一次又一次地惊叹你周围的事物(那些你每天都想当然的事物),是能够给你的思想带来全新视觉的有效方式。
■a skimpy meal.
不够吃的一顿饭。
■The skimpy rug barely covers the floor.
不够大的地毯勉强盖住了地板。
■a skimpy allowance.
不够花的零用钱。
■a skimpy dress;
不够长的裙子;
■skimpy disclosures
不完全消息
■The statement seems to have been, however, a little skimpy on specifics.
不过这一综述在细节方面似乎有一点过于吝啬。
■China is current everybody is average year of spending is skimpy 7 kilograms.
中国目前每人平均年消费不足7公斤。
■The gap in measurement is well known to private sector economists, who try to estimate China's quarter-on-quarter growth based on skimpy government data.
从事个人研究的经济学者对于这种统计方法的差距都很清楚,他们试图根据不充分的政府数据估算中国季度对季度的增长。
■They work very hard, for little money, clinging to the illusion of job security, looking forward to a three-week vacation each year and a skimpy pension after forty-five years of work.
他们为一点点钱而勤奋工作,兼有一种有工作的虚幻安全感,盼着一年三周的假期和工作45年后获得的一小笔养老金。
■They provided only skimpy details.
他们提供的细节不充分。
■Illinois's pension funds were skimpy even before the crisis.
伊利诺伊州的养老金基金在这次危机前本就不足。
■Because all the city gates had been closed for two days, peasants had been unable to bring in their produce from the surrounding countryside. Although the cook exercised all his ingenuity, the meals that day were necessarily rather skimpy.
但是城门已经关了两天,乡下人不能挑菜进城,菜场里并没有什么菜卖,所以厨子即使用了他的全副本领,大家仍然觉得饭桌上没有可口的饮食。
■But that role is impaired by the short duration of benefits and their skimpy level.
但是这个角色的作用被短期利益和不健全的体制所削弱。
■a lean budget; a skimpy allowance.
低预算;少量的津贴。
■1.Who are you trying to attract dressed in that skimpy outfit?
你穿得这么寒酸是想要吸引谁的注意呀?
■Study on Interrogation Status under the Skimpy Information
信息不完全之讯问状态研究
■Molecular evolution programs are heavy on bodies but skimpy on heritable information.
分子进化程序对物体而言很有分量,对遗传信息而言分量不足。
■a rather skimpy meal
分量不太够的一顿饭
■Just before heading to Florida for spring break, a college student bought a skimpy bikini.
参考译文:真的还是假的?
■It does come with a single windshield wiper, kind of skimpy for a country with a monsoon season.
另外,车上只有一个雨刷,对于有季风季节的印度,显然是不够的。
■I believe you have ever been anxious about the skimpy time.
可以让您更了解您的知心爱人、情人的一切行踪。
■a skimpy meal
吃不饱的一顿饭
■Because of a car's skimpy 12-volt electricity supply, HIDs in headlamps require fancier ballasts and voltage-boosting circuitry.
因为汽车没有供给12伏特的电压设备,HIDs前灯需要孵化巢和电压轰击电路。
■In our post-sexual-revolution world, skimpy dresses, mini-skirts, tiny bikinis, low-rise pants, and lowcut shirts have become part of the mainstream attire for women today.
在我们所处的后性革命时代,“难以蔽体的小礼服”、迷你裙、“布料极少的比基尼”、低腰裤、低胸衫已经融入了当代女性的主流服饰。
■Carcass mature woman in her skimpy dress in the curve revealed.
女人成熟的胴体在她轻薄的衣裙中曲线毕露。
■She wears skimpy dresses.
她穿着暴露。
■Year gross profit embellish goes to ten yuan tens of thousands of yuan, skimpy share relies on finance to allocate funds the income that reachs rental part room keeps expenditure.
年毛利润几万元到十几万元,不足部分靠财政拨款及出租部分房间的收入维持开支。
■And the scant and skimpy equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer’s least favored form of recreation.
慢跑仅需要简单凑合的装备,商家们从中无利可图,必然对它毫无热情。
■I don't like those skimpy trousers
我不喜欢这种小里小气的裤子。
■While our intelligence was skimpy and conveyed no particular sense of urgency, the Soviets seemed to be better informed
我们这方面情报工作这样差,而且毫无紧迫感,而苏联人的消息似乎比较灵通。
■The new government cemented its pact with the City: skimpy regulation in return for the growing tax revenues that helped to fund Labour's social programmes.
新政府和城市之间的协议得以加强:税收收入增加,工党的社会项目由此得到资金支持,作为回报,政府管制也相应减少。
■The material available on Argo City was skimpy suspiciously skimpy
有关阿尔格城的材料少得可怜,少得出奇。
■Would he come out here one evening to find her parading around in some skimpy fighting costume, like Bela's bossed and D-ringed body harness?
某天晚上当他离开这里时,他会不会发现她正穿着短小紧身的战斗服,就像贝拉穿的那种有突起的D环状甲胄,同时她还在四处炫耀?
■Some of the smaller gameplay issues from the original haven't been touched; skimpy manual doesn't explain online modes.
源自于老版本的一些细微的游戏瑕疵还是没有改进;简陋的用户手册没有解释在线模式。
■Little girls want to be models and celebrities now, and reality television trumpets the makeover and the skimpy dress as the keys to a life full of glamour and admiration.
现在小女孩们愿意当模特和名流,而现实的电视宣传整容和服饰是辉煌的,令人羡慕的生活的钥匙。
■a skimpy dress
短而暴露的连衣裙
■Researchers have speculated that skimpy forebrain myelin is one reason that teenagers do not have adult decision-making abilities.
研究人员推测,青少年的前脑髓鞘不成熟,是他们缺乏成人决策能力的原因之一。
■skimpy, skimpily, paltry, scantily, scanty
稀少的,贫乏的。不足的。吝啬的。
■Dress up in skimpy clothes, all to fulfill your dreams
穿很少的衣服,都是为了实现你的愿望
■Then she came.She was dressed in clothes not suited for an 11-year old girl.She wore a skimpy tight skirt that showed her shapely thighs and a blouse that partly showed her young breasts.
终于,她回来了,穿着与她11岁的年龄不相称的衣服,一条小短裙紧紧的包着屁股还有一件半露胸部的上衣。
■Cashmere products because of skimpy soft, warm good, comfortable fitted, beautiful and elegant, and other characteristics, known as "soft gold" for all.
羊绒制品由于轻薄柔软、保暖性好、舒适贴体、美观高雅等特性,素有“软黄金”之称。
■Pretty women dressed in skimpy outfits hand out free hats, pens, and key chains to crowds of enthusiastic truckers.
美丽的姑娘们穿着紧身的打扮向热情高涨的卡车司机们免费分发帽子,铅笔以及钥匙链。
■Ada : With all the 4)skimpy outfits I'll be wearing, I'm going to need all the protection I can get. Anything else?
艾达:既然我会穿得那麽少,我会需要我能得到的一切防护。还有什麽要带的?
■That sounds skimpy, but it was still the first increase in 16 years.
虽然这看起来是微不足道的增值,但是这仍然是16年来日本第一次地产增值。
■Beyond Skimpy Skirts, a Rare Debate on Identity
超越短裙,罕见的文化同一性之争
■And the scant and skimpy equipment which jogging demands must make it a marketer's least favored form of recreation.
跑步只需要少量简单的装备,这就使它成为商品推销商最不喜欢的娱乐形式。
■Dallas-area school district has decided high school girls wearing tight leggings with skimpy skirts are too distracting and banned the outfits.
达拉斯(美国得克萨斯州东北部城市)学区认为打底裤配超短裙实在太让人分心,所以禁止这种装扮。