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。
• 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”。
• 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。
• I'll wring your scrawny neck for you, will scarlett!
  我要扭断你的脖子，威尔斯卡利特！
• 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。
• 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。
• Scrawny cattle; scrubby cut-over pine; old stunted thorn trees.
  瘦骨如柴的牛；矮小的被砍断的松树；老而矮小的荆棘。
• 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。
• I'm not scared of you and your scrawny arms.
  瞧你那小细胳膊？难不成爷怕你？
• 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。