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 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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'll wring your scrawny neck for you, will scarlett!
  我要扭断你的脖子，威尔斯卡利特！
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• These big-eyed scrawny boys put out a small newspaper.
  这些大眼睛的瘦骨嶙峋的孩子办了一份小报。