slender的意思|slender的解释-里氏词典

slender ['slendә]

a. 苗条的, 纤弱的, 微少的, 微薄的

[机] 细的, 纤细的

slender

[ adj ]

being of delicate or slender build

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she was slender as a willow shoot is slender

a slim girl with straight blonde hair

watched her slight figure cross the street

very narrow

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a thin line across the page

having little width in proportion to the length or height

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a slender pole

small in quantity

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slender wages

a slim chance of winning

a small surplus

moving and bending with ease

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Slender \Slen"der\, a. [Compar. {Slenderer}; superl.
{Slenderest}.] [OE. slendre, sclendre, fr. OD. slinder thin,
slender, perhaps through a French form; cf. OD. slinderen,
slidderen, to creep; perh. akin to E. slide.]
1. Small or narrow in proportion to the length or the height;
not thick; slim; as, a slender stem or stalk of a plant.
``A slender, choleric man.'' --Chaucer.

She, as a veil down to the slender waist,
Her unadorned golden tresses wore. --Milton.

2. Weak; feeble; not strong; slight; as, slender hope; a
slender constitution.

Mighty hearts are held in slender chains. --Pope.

They have inferred much from slender premises. --J.
H. Newman.

The slender utterance of the consonants. --J. Byrne.

3. Moderate; trivial; inconsiderable; slight; as, a man of
slender intelligence.

A slender degree of patience will enable him to
enjoy both the humor and the pathos. --Sir W.
Scott.

4. Small; inadequate; meager; pitiful; as, slender means of
support; a slender pittance.

Frequent begging makes slender alms. --Fuller.

5. Spare; abstemious; frugal; as, a slender diet.

The good Ostorius often deigned
To grace my slender table with his presence.
--Philips.

6. (Phon.) Uttered with a thin tone; -- the opposite of
broad; as, the slender vowels long e and i.
※ -- {Slen"der*ly}, adv. -- {Slen"der*ness},
n.

So far, they have only seen pictures of the slender, hazel-eyed Kimberly.
In Truro, which this year is functioning as a kind of Iowa in the British political schedule, the Liberal Party last Thursday won 60.4%, the greatest majority earned by the slender party in the past 40 years.
The once slender, boyish singer was credited with revolutionizing popular music in the early 1950s with his unique blend of rhythm and blues, country and gospel punctuated with real-sounding sobs.
Sales rose a slender 1.4% to $102.5 million.
The latest child witness, a slender, 11-year-old boy, took the stand last week, telling jurors in 15 minutes what he remembered of his alleged molestation by Buckey and mentioning briefly that he once saw Buckey kill a horse.
For the original film's slender wit and charm, read the Disney Studio stomping across the sand in size-12 schmaltz-boots. Hollywood could not, of course, get to the all-French-made Germinal, also starring Depardieu.
Given a new fragility in the ruling coalition between Mr. Kohl's party, the Conservative Christian Democratic Union, and Mr. Genscher's party, the slender Free Democrats, the dovish Mr. Genscher is particularly powerful this season.
Mandela is normally slender," Herzog said. "He did not cough once when I visited him.
It will be helpful to set stakes, such as 2-foot tall slender bamboo poles, beside each growing stalk when the plants are set out.
They were well cast, both slender young women with attractive voices with vibrato.
One of those successes from 1986 is currently being revived in the Queen Elizabeth Hall - Yan Tan Tethera, Birtwistle's 'mechanical past-oral' to a text by Tony Harrison. It is a slender tale.
The long, slender fish commonly known as the grass carp has proven effective in controlling underwater and floating weeds, said Tim Murphy of the University of Georgia Extension Service.
But on this evening, his attention was drawn to the tall, slender girl with wavy, reddish-brown hair, twirling around the dance floor in a green-and-red holiday dress with one of his tennis buddies.
The pope, wearing white robes and a crimson cape trimmed with gold, carried before him a slender black cross made of lightweight wood.
And weaving together the slender threads of freedom in the East will require much from the Western democracies.
She had decided to pass on long skirts and the soft, slender outline of 1993, the look which demands clumpy shoes and looks frumpy with spike-heeled court shoes.
Even before the article was published, the foreign policy establishment and the academic world were abuzz. When it appeared, copies of a high-brow journal with a slender circulation were suddenly in high demand.
Tall and slender, his black hair thinning above a bespectacled, fine-featured face, he seems to wear a permanently serious expression.
Lifting a slender, 5-foot-high cross before him, Pope John Paul II led a torchlight procession through the Colosseum Friday night to re-enact Jesus' march to his crucifixion.
She has a slender physique, and a touchingly vulnerable profile for the peasant girl, but as yet her reading is a matter of lessons repeated rather than a masterpiece illuminated.
People with slender, angular frames usually don't have sufficient muscle mass for high-strength exercises but do well in endurance activities such as long-distance running or cross-country skiing.
The slender, smiling man spoke to reporters from his wheelchair during a news conference at HCA Park West Medical Centers.
Surrounded by slender minarets, Saladin's lusty Citadel and scores of cats, Fathy struggles in his aerie above Old Cairo to complete projects for three Egyptian oases.
Its common stockholder equity capital, the clearest measure of its ability to absorb losses, was $812 million at year end, a slender 2.4% of assets.
As a team, the two men are known for running low-budget newspapers, relying on slender staffs, low pay and lots of wire copy.
She is slender, with a gently commanding technique - balances hover; steps poise and hang upon a breath of air - and she brings a total concentration upon the drama.
When the machine is at rest, the beam is vertical, slender end at the top and weight box just clearing the ground.
Now rates are rising and equities falling, some will be tempted to preserve slender gains, or forestall further losses, by selling shares. Stability has to be achieved at some point, but how far down is the bottom of the market?
Mays said he would never have agreed to genetic testing of the slender, hazel-eyed blonde if the Twiggs hadn't signed an agreement in October promising not to seek custody of Kimberly no matter what the test results revealed.
Mr. Chirac and his conservative allies hold a slender majority in the Chamber of Deputies that they won in elections two years ago.

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