| 英语单词 | bony |
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| 英美音标 | 英 ['bəʊni] 美 ['boʊni] |
| 中文释义 | adj.如骨的;多骨的;瘦骨嶙峋的 |
| 英语例句 | (1) A high bony fin was cutting through the water toward him. (2) The secretary is a tall and bony man. (3) He eats so little that he is bony. |
| 中文例句 | (1) 一个高高的骨状鱼鳍正划破水面,向他追来。 (2) 秘书是个又高又瘦的男子。 (3) 他吃得太少, 瘦得只剩皮包骨。 |
| vocabulary简明 | Someone who's bony is very thin. Your cat may have been plump when he was young, and become bony as he got older. |
| vocabulary扩展 | If you're so skinny that your bones are prominent, your friends might call you bony and encourage you to eat more. Another way to use the adjective bony is to mean "like bone" or "containing bone." Some animals have bony shells or protective plates — and you might not enjoy your fish dinner if it's way too bony. Bony shares a root with bone, the Old English ban, "bone or tusk." |
| 柯林斯解释 | 1 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]骨瘦如柴的;瘦骨嶙峋的 Someone who has a bony face or bony hands, for example, has a very thin face or very thin hands, with very little flesh covering their bones. [usu ADJ n]
2 [ADJ 形容词](人体或动物的器官)骨质的 The bony parts of a person's or animal's body are the parts made of bone. [usu ADJ n]
3 [ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](鱼)多骨的,多刺的 If you describe fish that you are eating as bony, you mean that it has a lot of bones.
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