stouter 结实的
强壮的
坚固的
粗壮的(stout的比较级)
- But the moonlight could not hide that she was something stouter than in years agone . . . and Diana had never been what Avonlea folks called "skinny."
但是月光无法掩饰的是经过几年的时间她有些发胖了,已经不再是阿冯丽的人们所认为的“苗条的姑娘”了。 - For 40 years, its whole reason for existing was the military threat posed by the Soviet Union and Western Europe's need for stouter defences than it could provide alone.
四十年来,北约的存在一直是以前苏联的军事威胁和西欧对更加坚实的防御体系的需要为理由。 - The second clutched his coral amulet in his fist, but the gray-beard was carved from stouter stuff.
副官把他的珊瑚项坠攥在拳头里,而灰胡子却在钻研更实在的事情。
Stout \Stout\ (stout), a. [Compar. {Stouter} (stout"[~e]r);
superl. {Stoutest}.] [D. stout bold (or OF. estout bold,
proud, of Teutonic origin); akin to AS. stolt, G. stolz, and
perh. to E. stilt.]
1. Strong; lusty; vigorous; robust; sinewy; muscular; hence,
firm; resolute; dauntless.
With hearts stern and stout. --Chaucer.
A stouter champion never handled sword. --Shak.
He lost the character of a bold, stout, magnanimous
man. --Clarendon.
The lords all stand
To clear their cause, most resolutely stout.
--Daniel.
2. Proud; haughty; arrogant; hard. [Archaic]
Your words have been stout against me. --Mal. iii.
13.
Commonly . . . they that be rich are lofty and
stout. --Latimer.
3. Firm; tough; materially strong; enduring; as, a stout
vessel, stick, string, or cloth.
4. Large; bulky; corpulent.
Syn: {Stout}, {Corpulent}, {Portly}.
Usage: Corpulent has reference simply to a superabundance or
excess of flesh. Portly implies a kind of stoutness or
corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing
appearance. Stout, in our early writers (as in the
English Bible), was used chiefly or wholly in the
sense of strong or bold; as, a stout champion; a stout
heart; a stout resistance, etc. At a later period it
was used for thickset or bulky, and more recently,
especially in England, the idea has been carried still
further, so that Taylor says in his Synonyms: ``The
stout man has the proportions of an ox; he is
corpulent, fat, and fleshy in relation to his size.''
In America, stout is still commonly used in the
original sense of strong as, a stout boy; a stout
pole.