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

• His T-shirt clung to his scrawny back.
  他的圆领衫贴着他瘦骨嶙峋的脊背。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• The scrawny little kitten looked so pitiful out in the rain.
  那只骨瘦如柴的小猫在屋外的雨中看起来很可怜。
• 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“***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。
• Your precious, scrawny little neck!
  你的宝贵的，一文不值的小命！