Bony
['bəʊnɪ] or ['boni]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) having bones especially many or prominent bones; 'a bony shad fillet'; 'her bony wrist'; 'bony fish' .
(adj.) very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold; 'emaciated bony hands'; 'a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys'; 'eyes were haggard and cavernous'; 'small pinched faces'; 'kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration' .
巴雷特校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) Consisting of bone, or of bones; full of bones; pertaining to bones.
(a.) Having large or prominent bones.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Mukle—to the rector, Mrs Mukle to her friends—was a hard-featured, bony woman, who looked as if she had been cut out of a deal board. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- The bony remains discovered at Piltdown in Sussex display a creature still ascending only very gradually from the sub-human. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- A tall, bony woman--straight all the way down--in a coarse, blue pelisse, with the waist an inch or two below her arm-pits, responded to the call. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- A tall, bony colored woman now entered the kitchen, bearing on her head a basket of rusks and hot rolls. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The other was a red-headed, bony man, in top-boots; with a rather ill-favoured countenance, and a turned-up sinister-looking nose. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Rub into the surface of the meat some dry salicylic acid, particularly about the bony and fatty parts; the meat to be afterward cleaned before cooking as usual. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- The fish were small and bony, and the potatoes were a little burnt. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- I had heard this woman termed plain, and I expected bony harshness and grimness--something large, angular, sallow. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- And as to being regarded in lights, there's bumpey lights as well as bony. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
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