解释
- adj. 骨瘦如柴的
※ 提供单词"scrawny"的中文意思、发音示范及音标对照,中英文词源、例句和用法等。
中文词源
scrawny 瘦巴巴的
拼写变体自方言词 scranny,薄的,瘦的,词源可能同 scraggy,皮包骨的,骨瘦如柴的。
英文词源
- scrawny (adj.)
- 1824, apparently a dialectal variant of scranny "lean, thin" (1820), which is of uncertain origin but probably from a Scandinavian source, perhaps Old Norse skrælna "to shrivel." Compare scrannel.
例句和用法
- 1. The vulture extended his scrawny neck.
- 兀鹫伸出细长的脖子。
- 2. 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.
- 3. 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.
- 4. 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.
- 5. He looks much too skinny / scrawny to be a weight - lifter.
- 他瘦骨嶙峋的,当不了举重运动员.
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