puny
英 [ˈpjuːni]
美 [ˈpjuːni]
adj. 弱小的; 孱弱的; 不起眼的; 可怜的; 微不足道的
BNC.19445 / COCA.15824
牛津词典
adj.
- 弱小的；孱弱的
small and weak- The lamb was a puny little thing.
羊羔瘦小孱弱。
- The lamb was a puny little thing.
- 不起眼的；可怜的；微不足道的
not very impressive- They laughed at my puny efforts.
他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。
- They laughed at my puny efforts.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 弱小的；微弱的
Someone or something that ispunyis very small or weak.- ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
戴眼镜的瘦弱青年 - The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny.
中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
- ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
英英释义
adj
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance
- a puny physique
- puny excuses
双语例句
- As you have recognized our superiority, we will let your puny civilization survive for the moment.
既然你已经承认我们的优越性，我想我们会暂时饶你们这次等文明一条狗命的。 - Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
这些人有一颗硕大的头颅和瘦小的身子。 - 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。 - Phantom: You puny pathetic thing! I'll step on you like an ant!
蜘蛛：你这个可怜虫！我将会像踩扁一只蚂蚁一样踩扁你！ - Not anything that we puny humans could ever do.
没有任何我们这样微不足道的人类曾经做过的事情。 - Yes, you Asians and the Jews have taken up all the IQ points in the world, and the rest of us are lucky to be endowed with the puny remaining IQ's.
是的，你们亚洲人和犹太人拥有世上几乎所有的智商，我们其他人则很幸运地被赐予余下智商中的一丁点儿。 - My car only has a puny little engine.
我的汽车只有一只功率很小的引擎。 - 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。 - Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
境外账户的利率小的可怜，因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。 - I may even spare your puny little life.
我说不定会饶了你这条小命。