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 stocky ['stɑkɪ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
a. 矮胖的, 健壮结实的



    stocky
    stockier, stockiest
    [ adj ]
    having a short and solid form or stature
    <adj.all>
    a wrestler of compact buildhe was tall and heavyset
    stocky legs
    a thickset young man


    Stocky \Stock"y\, a. [From {Stock}.]
    1. Short and thick; thick rather than tall or corpulent.
    --Addison.

    Stocky, twisted, hunchback stems. --Mrs. H. H.
    Jackson.

    2. Headstrong. [Prov. Eng.] --G. Eliot.

    1. Government employees still slip and refer to "President Stroessner" instead of "President Rodriguez," but the ever-present photos of the stocky, shrewd ex-army commander-in-chief have disappeared from their offices.
    2. It took 10 years for Gregg Francis Braun to change from a stocky, popular high school football player into a frail, erratic man suspected of shooting five people to death in four states.
    3. Ernie Deloach, the stocky corrections guard who is another of the unit's sergeants, took the side of the instructor.
    4. When you play 18 holes, you have 18 stories.' A stocky man with the forearms of a stevedore, he is besotted by golf.
    5. Mr. Costescu, a stocky man with silver hair, lives, eats and drinks baseball in a little office at the end of a dark corridor on the seventh floor of the gloomy Ministry of Sports building, where the elevator rarely works.
    6. Sarkis, a stocky, 34-year-old with specks of gray in his hair, also has become more vocal about what he sees as shortcomings in the Soviet system.
    7. In the ring, the stocky 23-year-old possesses the most potent combination of hand speed and punching power that many of us have seen.
    8. A grade-school dropout, the stocky, bearded da Silva became nationally known in 1980 when he led a strike against Brazil's foreign-owned auto industry.
    9. Once upon a time, Sunday mornings at Emmanuel featured hymns and the hellfire preaching of the stocky, bearded Mr. Davis.
    10. Prescott, a stocky Morgan gelding who spent 20 years with the Boston Police Department, "paid his dues over and over," according to Patrolman Emilio "Moe" Ciriello, the city's top police horseman.
    11. Mr. Adams, 56, the thin and bespectacled Armstrong chief, proved in many ways a sharp contrast to the ruddy-faced, stocky Belzberg family boss.
    12. The stocky, black-haired general named himself acting president and, to the surprise of many Paraguayans, called for general elections, accepted the Colorado candidacy and campaigned for democracy and human rights.
    13. Residents remember seeing the stocky balding Gorbachev _ then the regional party boss _ jogging some mornings along the poplar-shaded streets or in the park opposite his one-story 19th century home at 109 Dzherzhinksy Street.
    14. Balthus's colours have become brighter over the decades, as his famous nudes have become more decorative and the atmosphere less menacing. 'Young Girl with a Blue Towel' (1958) is an enchantingly pretty painting of a stocky girl in a bathroom.
    15. "The more people try to stop us, the more it becomes a personal challenge." Mr. Liniger, a short, stocky dynamo who talks incessantly, has shaken up the way real-estate agents operate in North America.
    16. A short, stocky, balding man, the elusive Abu Nidal seldom appears in public or gives interviews.
    17. Warm, gregarious, of stocky build, a lover of gossip and a voracious reader, Moynihan was professor of painting at London's Royal College of Art from 1948 to 1957.
    18. "We unanimously support the theses submitted to the conference," said Grintsov, 53, a stocky man with graying hair. The two other delegates present did not demur.
    19. Esposito is now comfortably stocky and graying, and says that club life has been good to him.
    20. Nazmu dismisses such concerns, saying his religion does not forbid him to make money. Zul, a small stocky man, held the post of managing director of the leisure division.
    21. Bloom, a stocky junior high school teacher, knocked off 32,770 push-ups in 24 hours during the weekend, unofficially breaking by 197 the Guinness Book of World Records' mark for the most push-ups in a single day.
    22. A stocky guard flicks a remote-control switch.
    23. John Gordon rode a stocky chestnut horse in front of a column of rebel soldiers marching four abreast between Union troops with shouldered arms.
    24. Asked why he hadn't been swept up in the fitness craze, the stocky Sununu told a reporter: "Hey, listen, I wish I had more time, and I should probably have more discipline.
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