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 burly ['bɚlɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 结实的, 粗壮的, 率直的

  1. Strongly built; burly.
    结实的;强壮的
  2. The burly soldier pause at the foot of the blockhouse.
    魁梧的士兵在堡垒下停了下来。
  3. Big, burly men with narrow eyes.
    高大,魁梧,小眼睛。


burly
burlier, burliest
[ adj ]
muscular and heavily built
<adj.all>
a beefy wrestlerhad a tall burly frame
clothing sizes for husky boys
a strapping boy of eighteen
`buirdly' is a Scottish term


Burly \Bur"ly\ (b[^u]r"l[y^]), a. [OE. burlich strong,
excellent; perh. orig. fit for a lady's bower, hence
handsome, manly, stout. Cf. {Bower}.]
1. Having a large, strong, or gross body; stout; lusty; --
now used chiefly of human beings, but formerly of animals,
in the sense of stately or beautiful, and of inanimate
things that were huge and bulky. ``Burly sacks.''
--Drayton.

In his latter days, with overliberal diet, [he was]
somewhat corpulent and burly. --Sir T. More.

Burly and big, and studious of his ease. --Cowper.

2. Coarse and rough; boisterous.

It was the orator's own burly way of nonsense.
--Cowley.

  1. Nakasone, now 67, is shown as burly, with round eyes and a uncharacteristic full head of hair.
  2. Bert Lance has no official role at the Democratic convention, but Jesse Jackson will make sure there is a place at the table for the burly Georgia politician declared persona non grata four years ago.
  3. Kathleen Tynan was an excellent Belinda and Nigel Leeson-Williams sang a burly warrior of an Aeneas. Still all this might not have succeeded, if the performance had not found so striking a focal point in its central performer.
  4. During much of the concert Satriani stood planted, eyes closed, between burly bassist Stuart Hamm and polyrhythmic drummer Jonathan Mover.
  5. The burly Worcester Democrat doggedly preserved $1 million to begin a loan-forgiveness program for newly graduated nurses willing to serve in public or rural hospitals.
  6. A survey of sheep ranchers by Agriculture Department researchers shows flocks are less likely to be attacked by coyotes, wild dogs and other predators if a burly guard dog is on watch.
  7. "I have never been so scared," said the burly redhead.
  8. Grogan, a burly man with a red beard and moustache, becomes most incensed when he recalls the preliminary hearing for Buono and the subsequent trial.
  9. The burly agent, dressed in jungle fatigues and carrying an assault rifle, looked on as police troopers exploded the charges on the landing strip.
  10. Judge McKay had ordered that every person entering the courtroom be searched before Rider, who is Flynt's former brother-in-law, arrived with his retinue of burly bodyguards.
  11. And then Bill Blaikie, a burly member of Parliament from Winnipeg, was yelling at her to get out of there before she was hit by a bullet.
  12. The highlight was the Great Zsa Zsa Drill Team, in which several women and one burly man, all dressed as Zsa Zsa Gabor, re-created the actress' infamous policeman-slapping incident with men dressed as Beverly Hills motorcycle officers.
  13. Now, as President-elect Bush's choice to be the nation's first drug czar, it will fall on the shoulders of the burly former college football lineman to find a way to win that war.
  14. "I think I'm a little bit past the roller-skating age," said one inmate, a burly, 42-year-old Detroit man in the center for selling cocaine.
  15. The burly guards, body searches, bomb detectors and dogs trained to smell hidden explosives have become increasingly familiar staples of air travel, helping to drive ticket prices higher.
  16. We were nervous, especially after seeing the burly paddlers on the other team.
  17. One burly German, spotting Polish TV cameras, leaned out the window and shouted in heavily accented Polish, "Thank you, Polonia!" The sentiment was repeated by West German Ambassador Franz Joachim Schoeller after the train pulled out.
  18. Rescue workers, drained by almost four grisly days of peeling bodies and vehicles from the wreckage, burst into a throaty cheer when they saw the face of burly Buck Helm, who was wearing a red jogging suit.
  19. "This is as American as apple pie and Chevrolet," said one burly man, wearing a Jack Daniels baseball cap. "There's a lot more worse things than this.
  20. The burly, 57-year old Yeltsin's shock of white hair stood out at the podium and his voice boomed through the hall.
  21. Buckshot was a burly 400-pounder and a natural leader, Jakarta grumbled constantly with a running commentary of sighs and grunts.
  22. That attitude is exemplified by Vasily, a burly 55-year-old janitor in a Moscow apartment block, who recalls the terror of Hitler's bombers laying waste to the wooden huts of his childhood village.
  23. Iltis, an intense, burly, Czech-born botanist at the University of Wisconsin, is one of the world's foremost collectors of rare plant species.
  24. After you give a good performance, you're that way, too." Tackling Shakespeare was scarier to Biasucci than getting rushed by a bunch of burly defensive linemen.
  25. "Out here they call you 'Give-'em-hell DeWine,'" a burly constituent says while pounding the congressman on the back.
  26. "We're too poor to strike," one burly, unidentified worker told the evening Soviet television newscast "Vremya," which noted there was little support of the call to walk off the job.
  27. From nowhere appeared a burly youth.
  28. Police and fire departments from New York City to Phoenix, Ariz., sent monitors to observe the search and rescue work at I-880, where a burly dockworker was plucked from the crumbled concrete four days after the Tuesday temblor.
  29. Buck Helm, the burly longshoreman who survived 90 hours in the rubble of the quake-flattened Nimitz Freeway, has been spending much of his time in the hospital listening to Mozart, his former wife says.
  30. No mere impression, mind you since this tale comes complete with a photo of The Jog itself: A perky Van, a few paces ahead, chats amicably to a gasping Mr. Bush (even his burly Secret Service agents seem ready to pack it in).
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