svelte
svelte 英 [svelt] 美 [svɛlt]
adj. 苗条的；线条清晰的；和蔼的
名词复数:sveltes
- Svelte means slender. It's used to describe people, not things, and it implies a certain elegance. You might say that a middle-aged woman who had kept a svelte figure could still pass for a sixteen-year-old girl.
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- adj. 苗条的；线条清晰的；和蔼的
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1. Even weight-loss surgery doesn't always help people maintain their more svelte physiques.
即使减肥手术也并不能让人永远保持苗条的体型。
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2. I think I’ve known some of these women — they eat junk food all the time and stay super svelte.
我想我已经知道一些这样的人——她们一直吃垃圾食品，保持着苗条的身材。
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3. Your craving for Peppermint Patties will disappear and your waistline will remain svelte. Or at least the size it is now.
放两片口香糖在嘴里反复咀嚼，你渴望吃到薄荷饼的愿望就会消失，而你的腰身就会保持苗条，或至少维持现状。
- svelte (adj.) "slender, lithe," 1817, from French svelte "slim, slender" (17c.), from Italian svelto "slim, slender," originally "pulled out, lengthened," past participle of svellere "to pluck or root out," from Vulgar Latin *exvellere, from Latin ex- "out" (see ex-) + vellere "to pluck, stretch," from PIE *wel-no-, suffixed form of *uelh- "to strike" (source also of Hittite ualh- "to hit, strike," Greek aliskomai "to be caught").
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