
scraggy
音标:
英音/ ˈskræɡi / 美音/ ˈskræɡi /
听听基本释意:
外刊例句:
He said: “A scraggy dog hit me square between the shoulders and knocked me over. I’d never been so glad to see the old girl. And I think she felt the same”.
他说:“一只冰雪的狗在肩膀之间打了我的正方形,把我撞倒了。见到那个老女孩,我从来没有那么高兴。我认为她的感觉也一样”。
—BBC
McKinley was still aglow afterward because the president had complimented him on the scraggily beard he’s growing – the one Boyle and the other teens had tried to get him to shave before the meeting.
麦金莱之后仍然很兴奋,因为总统在他正在长大的急躁的胡须上称赞他 – 一个博伊尔和另一个青少年试图让他在会议前剃须。
—Washington Times
Back on the beach, Maria Dolores is cutting a piece of ham to offer to the couple of scraggy dogs, which are skulking under the picnic table.
回到沙滩上,玛丽亚·多洛雷斯(Maria Dolores)正在切一块火腿,向这几只冰棍狗提供,这些狗在野餐桌下面滑过。
—BBC
基本释意:
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瘦弱的;凸凹不平的;皮包骨的
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文学例句:
He is very swarthy and scraggy, and strikes one at first as much less handsome than his photos: but gradually you see that it’s a face of genius.
他非常肮脏和糟糕,一开始比他的照片少得多:但是逐渐地,您看到这是天才的面孔。
—The Letters of Henry James (volume I) by James, Henry
Aye, I have wherewith to pay for your three scraggy hens, your four mangy pullets, and that big idiot of a peacock dragging his dirty tail in your yard.
是的,我可以为您的三只冰棍母鸡,四个狂热的小裤子和孔雀的大白痴付钱,将他肮脏的尾巴拖到院子里。
—The Legend of Ulenspiegel, Volume I (of 2)
And Lamme Goedzak, and their Adventures Heroical, Joyous
and Glorious in the Land of Flanders and Elsewhere by Coster, Charles Th?odore Henri de
I shambled about the field on scraggy legs, squalled for passes that never came my way.
我在小腿上闲逛了田野,qua了那些从未出现过的通行证。
—The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
词源:
scraggy (adj.)early 13c., scraggi, “rough, jagged” (figurative); 1570s, of landscape, “rough, rugged, stumpy;” 1610s, of persons or animals, “gaunt and wasted, lean, thin, bony;” see scrag (n.) + -y (2), and compare scroggy, scraggly, scrawny. In the landscape sense perhaps via scrag in the obsolete sense of “stump of a tree, rough projection from a trunk” (1560s), which had various spellings. In Scottish and Northern English, scranky “lean, slender, scraggy” (18c.). Related: Scraggily; scragginess.Related entries & more
下面是词源的翻译(机器翻译比较难翻,参考着看)
craggy(adj。)13c。 1570年代,景观,“粗糙,坚固,笨拙”; 1610年代,人物或动物,“ gaunt和浪费,瘦,瘦,骨头;”参见crag(n。) + -y(2),并比较scroggy,craggly,scrawny。从景观意义上讲,也许是在“树的树桩,树干的粗糙投影”(1560年代)的过时意义上,有各种拼写。在苏格兰和北方英语中,Scranky的“精益,细长,冰棍”(18c。)。相关:craggy;相关条目等等
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