lanky 英 [ˈlæŋki] 　 美 [ˈlæŋki]

lanky

lanky　 英 [ˈlæŋki] 美 [ˈlæŋki]

adj. 瘦长的　

I stopped at the straw hat stand and chatted with a lanky boy as he was setting out the hats.　我在一个草帽摊旁停了下来。 摊主是一位身形瘦长的小伙子，他在摆放草帽时，我与他聊了起来。
As they approached the shore, a lanky, suntanned, salt-encrusted 26-year-old stepped out with a splash and clambered up onto a jumble of broken basalt.　当他们到达海岸，一个瘦长的，黝黑的，身上沾著些许海盐的26岁青年溅踏着水面爬上一堆杂乱破碎的玄武岩。

  • Use the adjective lanky to describe someone who’s tall, thin, and a little bit gawky.
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  • adj. 瘦长的

  • 1. I stopped at the straw hat stand and chatted with a lanky boy as he was setting out the hats.

    我在一个草帽摊旁停了下来。 摊主是一位身形瘦长的小伙子，他在摆放草帽时，我与他聊了起来。

  • 2. As they approached the shore, a lanky, suntanned, salt-encrusted 26-year-old stepped out with a splash and clambered up onto a jumble of broken basalt.

    当他们到达海岸，一个瘦长的，黝黑的，身上沾著些许海盐的26岁青年溅踏着水面爬上一堆杂乱破碎的玄武岩。

  • 3. The lanky animals’ long, but awkward legs traveled across the desert in half the time it took most other desert animals.

    这种瘦长动物的腿很长也很笨拙，但穿越沙漠的时间却比大部分其他沙漠动物还要快上一倍。

  • lanky (adj.) 1630s, "straight and flat," used of hair, from lank (adj.) + -y (2). Sense of "awkwardly tall and thin" is first recorded 1818. Fowler writes that "The short form is almost only literary, the long chiefly colloquial." Related: Lankily (1848); lankiness (1846).
lanky / ˈlæŋki ; NAmE ˈlæŋki / adjective ( lank·ier , lank·iest ) (of a person 人 ) having long thin arms and legs and moving in an awkward way 瘦长（或胳膊、腿细长）而行动笨拙的 ◆ a tall, lanky teenager 身材瘦长的少年 SYN gangling lanky lankier lankiest lanky / ˈlæŋki ; NAmE ˈlæŋki /
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