Flimsy
['flɪmzɪ] or ['flɪmzi]
解釋/意思:
(adj.) lacking substance or significance; 'slight evidence'; 'a tenuous argument'; 'a thin plot'; a fragile claim to fame' .
(adj.) lacking solidity or strength; 'a flimsy table'; 'flimsy construction' .
校對:谢尔曼--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(superl.) Weak; feeble; limp; slight; vain; without strength or solidity; of loose and unsubstantial structure; without reason or plausibility; as, a flimsy argument, excuse, objection.
(n.) Thin or transfer paper.
(n.) A bank note.
手打:莱曼
同義詞及近義詞:
a. [1]. Slight, thin, unsubstantial, of frail texture.[2]. Weak, feeble, trivial, frivolous, foolish, trifling, light, puerile, shallow, superficial, trashy.
杰勒德整理
同義詞及反義詞:
SYN:Gauzy, poor, thin, transparent, trifling, trivial, puerile, inane, slight,superficial, weak, shallow
ANT:Solid, sound, irrefragable, substantial, cogent
布莱尔整理
解釋/意思:
adj. thin: without solidity strength or reason: weak.—n. transfer-paper: (slang) a bank-note: reporters' copy written on thin paper.—adv. Flim′sily in a flimsy manner.—n. Flim′siness.
贾尼斯編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- All these great walls are as exact and shapely as the flimsy things we build of bricks in these days. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- This is indeed, he continued, as he looked at the flimsy texture and slender fingers, a slight and frail gage for a purpose so deadly! 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Compared with the massiveness of the task, these books do indeed seem poetical and scholarly and flimsy. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Result: the gate was only a flimsy structure of wood--we would break it down. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- In doing this engines were built of such flimsy construction that they soon went to pieces. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- There are temporary and flimsy subjugations. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
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