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scrawny adj.瘦的；骨瘦如柴的 (1) 莉莉想要一个身材健美的男朋友，而不是一个软脚虾.(2) 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。 The adjective scrawny can describe a small, underweight body but it can also describe anything that's not very big or well-made — a scrawny tree that never gets any taller or fuller or a scrawny audience that disappoints the band because they were expecting a sold-out concert. Scrawny may have come from the Old Norse word skraelna, to shrivel.

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英 ['skrɔːni] 美 ['skrɔːni] (1) Lily wants a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp.(2) For more than an hour a scrawny guy sat at a bar staring into his glass. Scrawny is an insulting way to describe someone who's very thin and weak. You might be surprised by how lifting weights transformed your scrawny teammate to a muscular athlete by the end of the season. 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；皮包骨头的 If you describe a person or animal as scrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin.   [disapproval]...a scrawny woman with dyed black hair...染了黑发、骨瘦如柴的女人The vulture extended his scrawny neck.兀鹫伸出细长的脖子。

英语单词	scrawny
英美音标	英 ['skrɔːni] 美 ['skrɔːni]
中文释义	adj.瘦的；骨瘦如柴的
英语例句	(1) Lily wants a beefcake for a boyfriend and not some scrawny shrimp. (2) For more than an hour a scrawny guy sat at a bar staring into his glass.
中文例句	(1) 莉莉想要一个身材健美的男朋友，而不是一个软脚虾. (2) 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。
vocabulary简明	Scrawny is an insulting way to describe someone who's very thin and weak. You might be surprised by how lifting weights transformed your scrawny teammate to a muscular athlete by the end of the season.
vocabulary扩展	The adjective scrawny can describe a small, underweight body but it can also describe anything that's not very big or well-made — a scrawny tree that never gets any taller or fuller or a scrawny audience that disappoints the band because they were expecting a sold-out concert. Scrawny may have come from the Old Norse word skraelna, to shrivel.
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；皮包骨头的 If you describe a person or animal as scrawny, you mean that they look unattractive because they are so thin. [disapproval] ...a scrawny woman with dyed black hair... 染了黑发、骨瘦如柴的女人 The vulture extended his scrawny neck. 兀鹫伸出细长的脖子。

Scrawny Describe 英 Skrɔːni] 美 Skrɔːni Adj.瘦的；骨瘦如柴的 Lily Beefcake