词组 | thin |
释义 | thin /θɪn/ adjective 1. a thin person has little fat on his or her bodynounsa thin man/woman/boy/girl The clerk was a small thin man with yellow teeth.a thin face She had a long thin face.thin lips There was a faint smile on his thin lips.thin legs Her long cotton dress flapped against her thin legs.thin arms/wrists/fingers His thin arms trembled in the cold.a thin body She put her arms around his poor thin body.verbslook thin He looks thinner than the last time I saw him.get/become thin You need to eat more – you’re getting very thin.stay thin I wonder how she manages to stay so thin.adverbsextremely/incredibly thin Some fashion models are incredibly thin.painfully thin (=much too thin – used when you feel sorry for someone) The dogs were painfully thin and many were diseased.phrasesas thin as a rake (=very thin) When he came out of prison, he was as thin as a rake.THESAURUS: thin narrowwaist | hips | shoulders | chest | face | feet not wide – used about parts of someone’s body: Women had very narrow waists in those days. | His hips were narrow, like those of a young boy. | He has a narrow face and a long thin nose. | Her feet are very narrow and she has difficulty buying shoes that will fit her. slimwoman | man | build | figure | body | waist | legs | hips thin in an attractive way: She was a slim young woman with curly hair. | He had the slim build of an athlete. | We were all envious of her slim figure. | She was admiring her slim body in the mirror. | He put his arm around her slim waist. | She stretched her slim legs out in front of her. | She had firm thighs and slim hips. slender literarybody | figure | woman | legs | fingers | neck thin in an attractive and graceful way: A towel was wrapped around her slender body. | He saw her slender figure standing in the doorway. | She was a slender woman in her mid-thirties. | The dress showed off her long slender legs. | Her long slender fingers paused over the keyboard. skinny informallegs | arms | body | boy | kid | man | woman | model very thin, especially in a way that is not attractive: Her skinny legs were shaking because of the cold. | Her skinny arms were wrapped around her knees. | People used to make fun of her skinny body. | The skinny boy was standing there staring at him. | I was just a skinny kid and I wasn’t going to fight. | The postman was a tall, skinny man. | There are lots of really skinny models. leanbody | figure | face | frame looking healthy and fit, without any fat at all: I could see his strong lean body under his shirt. | A handsome lean figure came down the stairs. | He had a lean face and dark eyes. | The tight suit emphasized his lean frame. gaunt /ɡɔːnt $ ɡɒːnt/ literaryface | features | figure | woman | man very thin and pale, especially because you are tired, worried, or ill: The old man’s gaunt face broke into a smile. | She stared at his gaunt features. | The photograph showed a gaunt figure lying in a hospital bed. | I remember a tall gaunt woman wearing black. | A gaunt man was waiting outside my office. | He looked gaunt and had not shaved for days. underweight below the usual weight for someone of your height, and therefore too thin: The doctor says I’m underweight and has put me on a special diet. | She gave birth to an underweight baby. | Smokers are more likely to have underweight children. anorexic extremely thin because of a mental illness that makes you want to stop eating: Her daughter is anorexic. size zeromodel the smallest size of women’s clothing in the US – used to describe models and women who are very thin: The use of size zero models in advertising creates an unrealistic image of women’s bodies.ANTONYMS → fat1 (1)2. if something is thin, there is only a small distance between its two opposite sides or surfacesnounsa thin slice He cut himself a thin slice of bread.a thin strip Cut the bacon into thin strips.a thin layer/film/sheet The furniture was covered in a thin layer of dust.a thin line She noticed a thin line of sweat on his upper lip.thin material/fabric/cotton/silk etc She was wearing a thin cotton dress.a thin jacket/shirt/pullover etc The wind cut through his thin shirt like a knife.a thin chain/wire/string A thin gold chain hung from her neck.a thin wall He could hear the neighbours arguing through the thin wall.thin ice The lake was covered in thin ice.adverbsextremely/incredibly thin Television screens are incredibly thin nowadays.THESAURUS: thin slimvolume | book | paperback | box | watch slim books are short and thin. Slim is also used about other objects which are thin and attractive: He began reading from a slim volume of poetry (=a thin book of poetry). | Sontag published a slim book of essays. | She was reading a slim paperback. | He gave me a slim gold box for holding my business cards. | She glanced at the slim gold watch on her wrist. slender literarytree | stem | thread | column | vase | book tall and thin or long and thin, in a way that looks attractive but is often not very strong: The slender trees had lost all their leaves. | The bush has deep red berries on long slender stems. | The spider was hanging by a slender thread. | The roof was supported by four slender columns. | A remarkable amount of information is contained within this slender book. paper-thin/wafer-thinwall | slice | sheet | scrap | petal extremely thin, like paper. Wafer-thin is even thinner than paper-thin: The walls of the apartment were paper-thin. | He cut the cheese into wafer-thin slices. | The letters were written on wafer-thin sheets of wood. | The petals are paper-thin. finehair | thread | wire | needle | tip extremely narrow – used especially about hair, thread etc: Polly felt the fine hairs on her arm rise. | The cotton is spun to a fine thread. | The cloth is richly decorated with fine gold wire. | A fine needle is inserted into the patient’s skin. | The plant’s broad leaves curve to a fine tip.ANTONYMS → thick (1) |
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