单词 | stocky |
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音标 | ['stɔki] |
解释 | a.矮胖的,粗壮的 |
红宝书 | 【英】 adj. 矮胖的,粗壮的(comp act, sturdy) 【记】 stock(树桩)+y→像 树桩一样→矮胖的 |
字源 | stocky (adj.) c.1400, "made of wood," from stock (n.1). Of plants, "of stout and sturdy growth" (not weedy) it is recorded from 1620s. Of persons, "thick-set," 1670s, suggestive of tree trunks, but compare also stock in sense of "trunk of the human body" (late 14c.). |
不择手段背单词 | 无 |
趣味全助记 | 【记】stock树干一般 |
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