puny
英 [ˈpjuːni]
美 [ˈpjuːni]
adj. 弱小的; 孱弱的; 不起眼的; 可怜的; 微不足道的
BNC.19445 / COCA.15824
牛津词典
adj.
- 弱小的;孱弱的
small and weak- The lamb was a puny little thing.
羊羔瘦小孱弱。
- The lamb was a puny little thing.
- 不起眼的;可怜的;微不足道的
not very impressive- They laughed at my puny efforts.
他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。
- They laughed at my puny efforts.
柯林斯词典
- ADJ-GRADED 弱小的;微弱的
Someone or something that ispunyis very small or weak.- ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
戴眼镜的瘦弱青年 - The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny.
中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
- ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
英英释义
adj
- (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- inferior in strength or significance
- a puny physique
- puny excuses
双语例句
- That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players.
你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。 - At home, fierce competition among thousands of producers and brands translates into puny market shares and slim profits.
在中国本土,数千家生产商和品牌之间的激烈竞争,导致各自只能获得极小的市场份额和微薄的利润。 - Our intention is to rescue the puny kids who could have their minds twisted due to parents like yourself.
救助弱小是我们的本意,我们不希望未成年人在你这样的父母羽翼下扭曲成长。 - This might show his followers how puny and weak was his power and how empty their flattery.
也许,这能使他的朝臣们看明白他的力量是多么渺小,多么微不足道,而他们的恭维又是多么无聊。 - If he had been small or puny or sickly or misshapen he would've been discarded.
如果他很瘦小或者羸弱或者多病或者畸形,他就会被丢弃。 - Yes, you Asians and the Jews have taken up all the IQ points in the world, and the rest of us are lucky to be endowed with the puny remaining IQ's.
是的,你们亚洲人和犹太人拥有世上几乎所有的智商,我们其他人则很幸运地被赐予余下智商中的一丁点儿。 - My car only has a puny little engine.
我的汽车只有一只功率很小的引擎。 - It is remarkable that the stature of this population should have diminished in the last fifty years and the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Revolution.
五十年来,人民的材又缩小了,这是值得注意的,巴黎四郊的人民,比革命前更矮小了。 - So that puny little pressure ends up being meters high.
所以如此小的压强,导致了数米高的水柱。 - Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
境外账户的利率小的可怜,因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。