gaunt
gaunt 英 [gɔ:nt] 美 [ɡɔnt]
adj. 憔悴的；荒凉的；枯瘦的
比较级:gaunter 最高级:gauntest
- You can never be too rich or too thin, but you certainly can be too gaunt. It means you look skinny like you're sick, not skinny like you have a personal nutritionist slapping your hand when you reach for a bonbon.
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- adj. 憔悴的；荒凉的；枯瘦的
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1. Look at An's gaunt face, I ask myself, no other options?
看到安憔悴的脸，我只能问自己，没有其他地选择了吗？
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2. They looked gaunt and exhausted. Clad in authentic costume, they were cooking buckwheat pancakes at a remote log cabin and wiring the soles back on to their authentic boots.
他们看上去憔悴而筋疲力尽，身穿道地的矿工服装，在一处遥远的原木小屋里做荞麦饼，还把鞋底缝回到地道的矿工靴子上去。
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3. And although he appears to have beaten the cancer, he shocked investors last year by mounting a stage looking sickly and gaunt.
而且尽管看起来他似乎已经治愈了癌症，可去年登台时虚弱和憔悴的样子还是令投资者们大为震惊。
- gaunt (adj.) "lean and haggard," from or as if from hunger, mid-15c. (as a surname from mid-13c.), from Middle French gant, of uncertain origin; perhaps from a Scandinavian source (compare Old Norse gand "a thin stick," also "a tall thin man") and somehow connected with the root of gander. Connection also has been suggested to Old French jaunet "yellowish" [Middle English Dictionary].
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