lank
lank 英 [læŋk] 美 [læŋk]
adj. 瘦的；平直的；长而柔软的；细长的
名词复数:lanks
- Lank can describe grass that is long, hair that is limp, and people who are tall and thin.
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- adj. 瘦的；平直的；长而柔软的；细长的
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1. This is partly out of practical necessity: it is indeed thin and lank.
当然这里面有实际的必要性,我的发质稀疏平直。
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2. All lank and bone, the boy stands at the corner with his younger sister, waiting for the yellow bus that takes them to their respective schools.
一个骨瘦如柴的男孩和他的妹妹站在街角，等着黄色的校车把他们带到他们各自的学校。
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3. "He was . . . exceedingly lank, with narrow shoulders" (Washington Irving).
“他…非常瘦，两肩窄小” （华盛顿·欧文）。
- lank (adj.) Old English hlanc "loose and empty, meagerly slim, flaccid," from Proto-Germanic *hlanka-, forming words meaning "to bend, turn," perhaps from PIE root *kleng- "to bend, turn," with a connecting notion of "flexible" (compare German lenken "to bend, turn aside;" see flank (n.)). In Middle English, "Some examples may be long adj. with unvoicing of g" ["Middle English Dictionary"]. In reference to hair, "straight and flat," from 1680s. Related: Lankness (1640s).
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