puny
puny 英 [ˈpju:ni] 美 [ˈpjuni]
adj. 弱小的；微不足道的；微小的
比较级:punier 最高级:puniest
- Are your muscles looking small, weak, and totally inferior? In other words, puny? Sounds like somebody needs to eat more spinach.
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- adj. 弱小的；微不足道的；微小的
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1. Greece is a puny power and was so even before it descended into the vortex.
无论是在经济崩溃之前还是之后，希腊都是一个弱小的国家。
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2. Like the early Apple II of Mr. Jobs, it is too puny for many tasks, including sequencing the entire genome of a person.
像早期的苹果II乔布斯，实在是太对许多任务，包括测序一个人的整个基因组微不足道。
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3. Almost any computer manufactured in the past 10 years with any old processor and puny amount of RAM should provide plenty of power for building and using the code described here.
过去 10 年制造的配有任何旧处理器和 RAM 数量很小的几乎所有计算机都应当可以提供足够的能力来构建和使用本文描述的代码。
- puny (adj.) 1570s, "inferior in rank" (1540s as a noun, "junior pupil, freshman"), from Middle French puisné (Modern French puîné), from Old French puisne "born later, younger, youngest" (12c., contrasted with aisné "first-born"), from puis nez, from puis "afterward" (from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea "after this, hereafter," from post "after," see post-, + ea "there") + Old French né "born," from Latin natus, past participle of nasci "be born" (Old Latin gnasci; from PIE root *gene- "give birth, beget"). Sense of "small, weak, insignificant" first recorded 1590s. Compare puisne. Related: Puniness.
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