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shapely adj.样子好看的；线条优美的；形状美观的 (1) 虽然她有好的身材，但穿的大衣很难看。(2) 那个体态优美的女孩子靠卖黑纱为生。 The word shapely most often describes a woman, but there's no reason you can't use it to talk about a nicely shaped man as well. You could describe a mountain climber you know as being physically fit, with shapely legs, or complain that fashion magazines are full of identical shapely models, with no variation of body types. Shapely has been used in English since the fourteenth century, from the Old English root word gesceap, or "creation, form, or destiny."

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英 ['ʃeɪpli] 美 ['ʃeɪpli] (1) Although she has a shapely figure, she is wearing a shapeless coat.(2) The girl with shapely body scraped a living by selling crapes. Use the adjective shapely to describe someone whose body has an attractive shape. You might start going to the gym to run and lift weights with the goal of becoming more shapely. 1[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](女子)体形匀称的，有曲线美的 If you describe a woman as shapely, you mean that she has an attractive shape.   [usu ADJ n]  [approval]...her shapely legs.她那双美腿

英语单词	shapely
英美音标	英 ['ʃeɪpli] 美 ['ʃeɪpli]
中文释义	adj.样子好看的；线条优美的；形状美观的
英语例句	(1) Although she has a shapely figure, she is wearing a shapeless coat. (2) The girl with shapely body scraped a living by selling crapes.
中文例句	(1) 虽然她有好的身材，但穿的大衣很难看。 (2) 那个体态优美的女孩子靠卖黑纱为生。
vocabulary简明	Use the adjective shapely to describe someone whose body has an attractive shape. You might start going to the gym to run and lift weights with the goal of becoming more shapely.
vocabulary扩展	The word shapely most often describes a woman, but there's no reason you can't use it to talk about a nicely shaped man as well. You could describe a mountain climber you know as being physically fit, with shapely legs, or complain that fashion magazines are full of identical shapely models, with no variation of body types. Shapely has been used in English since the fourteenth century, from the Old English root word gesceap, or "creation, form, or destiny."
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](女子)体形匀称的，有曲线美的 If you describe a woman as shapely, you mean that she has an attractive shape. [usu ADJ n] [approval] ...her shapely legs. 她那双美腿

Shapely Body Describe Attractive Shape Word English 英