slim
slim 英 [slɪm] 美 [slɪm]
adj. 苗条的；修长的；微小的； v. 使…苗条
进行时:slimming 过去式:slimmed 过去分词:slimmed 第三人称单数:slims 名词复数:slims 比较级:slimmer 最高级:slimmest
- Anything slim is thin or narrow. So, your sister may be considered slim, and you could also have "a slim chance" of winning the lottery.
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- adj. 苗条的；修长的；微小的；
- v. 使…苗条
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1. a slim figure, a slim body, a slim waist
苗条的体形╱身材；纤细的腰肢
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2. She was tall and slim.
她是个瘦高个儿。
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3. How do you stay so slim?
你是怎样把身材保持得这么苗条的？
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4. a slim volume of poetry
一本薄薄的诗集
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5. a slim chance of success
成功的可能性不大
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6. You can still eat breakfast when you are slimming.
你减肥也可以吃早饭嘛！
- slim (adj.) 1650s, "thin, slight, slender," from Dutch slim "bad, sly, clever," from Middle Dutch slim "bad, crooked," from Proto-Germanic *slembaz "oblique, crooked" (source also of Middle High German slimp "slanting, awry," German schlimm "bad, cunning, unwell"). In English 17c. also sometimes with a sense "sly, cunning, crafty." Related: Slimly; slimness. With obsolete extended adjectival forms Slimsy "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1845); slimikin "small and slender" (1745). Slim Jim attested from 1887 in sense of "very thin person;" from 1902 as a type of slender cigar; from 1975 as a brand of meat snack.
- slim (v.) 1808, "to scamp one's work, do carelessly or superficially," from slim (adj.). Meaning "to make slim" (a garment, etc.) is from 1862; meaning "reduce (one's) weight" is from 1930. Related: Slimmed; slimming.
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