gangly
gangly 英 ['ɡæŋɡlɪ] 美 ['ɡæŋɡlɪ]
adj. 身材瘦长的
- Someone who's tall, long-limbed, and awkward is gangly. Many teenagers go through a gangly phase before they reach their full height and weight.
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- adj. 身材瘦长的
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1. I was an awkward child. Tall, gangly, and, like everyone else in my family, severely myopic.
我是一个不讨人喜欢的孩子，瘦高个，还像我家里的每个人一样，眼睛严重近视。
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2. When the bell rang, a nasal buzzing sound, a gangly boy with skin problems and hair black as an oil slick leaned across the aisle to talk to me.
铃声响了起来，一个嗓音尖细，身材瘦长，满脸粉刺的黑发男孩像油一样滑行冲过过道来和我说话。
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3. As a boy, I dreamt of becoming the World's Tallest Man, inspired by the gangly 8ft 11in frame of Robert Wadlow peering out at me from my favourite book.
当我还是个小毛孩时，身高8英尺11英寸的瘦汉罗伯特沃德洛从我最喜欢的书中凝视着我，我便梦想能成为世界第一高人。
- gangly (adj.) 1872 (Mark Twain, "Roughing It"), an American English alteration of gangling.
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