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

• A child with skinny freckled legs; a long scrawny neck.
  腿上长满斑点、瘦得皮包骨的小孩；骨瘦如柴的脖子。
• At 71 he faced the canvas, scrawny, grey-naked, palette and brush in hand, with just a pair of unlaced hobnail boots on his feet.
  他71岁，面对着画布，骨瘦如柴，裸体，身显灰色，手中握着调色板和画笔，只穿着一双未系鞋带的带平头钉底的靴子。
• It was not a guard, though, but an old man on what looked like an even older pony, accompanied by a pair of scrawny dogs.
  然而不是警卫，而是一个老人，骑在一个看起来更老的矮马上，还带着两条瘦骨如柴的狗。
• In the first film, he wasn't that hot: long hair, bit scrawny, at least a foot shorter than all the other men in Forks.
  在第一部电影里，他并没有那么性感：长发，有点骨瘦如柴的，至少比福克斯的所有其他男人矮一点。
• His T-shirt clung to his scrawny back.
  他的圆领衫贴着他瘦骨嶙峋的脊背。
• 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。
• He was a weak and scrawny boy, but daring nonetheless.
  范德科尔克是一个骨瘦如柴的孱弱男孩，但这丝毫没有减损他的勇敢。
• They are scrawny. That means the Kazakh herders have suffered, too.
  这意味着哈萨克族牧民的日子也不好过。
• 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。
• 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。