scrawny

英 [ˈskrɔːni]

美 [ˈskrɔːni]

adj.  干瘦的; 瘦巴巴的

比较级：scrawnier　

TEM8

BNC.24581 / COCA.16827

牛津词典

adj.

• 干瘦的；瘦巴巴的
  very thin in a way that is not attractive

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 骨瘦如柴的;皮包骨头的
  If you describe a person or animal asscrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin.
  1. ...a scrawny woman with dyed black hair...
     染了黑发、骨瘦如柴的女人
  2. The vulture extended his scrawny neck.
     兀鹫伸出细长的脖子。

英英释义

adj

• being very thin
  1. a child with skinny freckled legs
  2. a long scrawny neck
  Synonym:scraggyboneyskinnyunderweightweedy
• inferior in size or quality
  1. scrawny cattle
  2. scrubby cut-over pine
  3. old stunted thorn trees
  Synonym:scrubbystunted

双语例句

• Slimane, who goes on "model safaris" to source scrawny teenagers from the streets and clubs of Antwerp, Berlin and Bristol, is obsessed with British youth culture.
  苏莱曼迷恋英国青年文化，他进行“模特大搜寻”，从安特卫普、柏林和布里斯托尔的街道和夜总会里寻找骨瘦如柴的十来岁的青少年。
• It was a few days before the fourth of july, and a gray, scrawny Italian child was setting torpedoes in a row along the railroad track.
  再过几天就是七月四号了，因此有一个灰蒙蒙的、骨瘦如柴的意大利小孩沿着铁轨在点放一排“鱼雷炮”。
• The scrawny kitten lingered, brushing itself against our legs, and meowing plaintively.
  这只瘦得皮包骨的小猫赖着不走，在我们的脚边蹭来蹭去，叫得挺凄凉的。
• Lily wants a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp.
  莉莉想要一个身材健美的男朋友，而不是一个软脚虾。
• 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。
• 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。
• She was a scrawny little thing.
  她那时是个瘦溜的小不点儿。
• Those same hands, in West Bengal in 1971, had massaged the scrawny limbs of Bangladeshi refugees, and in December 1984 had soothed the burning eyes of victims of the explosion at a chemical factory in Bhopal.
  1971年在西孟加拉邦，正是这双手为孟加拉国难民按摩骨瘦如柴的四肢，1984年12月在博帕尔市，也正是这双手为化工厂爆炸受害者安减轻被灼伤眼睛的疼痛。
• Perhaps, the scientists thought, the same would hold true for scrawny specimens versus the truly buff.
  科学家们想，或许对于瘦小的人，他们的听力比那些真正的大个子要灵敏。
• He came home after three months at college looking terribly scrawny.
  他在大学里呆了三个月后回到家里，看上去瘦得可怕。