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
- Its stimulus measures, once derided as puny, have delivered a bigger bang for the buck than anyone expected.
德国的经济刺激措施曾被嘲笑为微不足道，但其影响却超出了所有人的预期。 - 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。 - 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。 - Once there was a puny little concert violinist named Rudolf, who lived in Sweden.
从前在瑞典，有一身材瘦弱矮小的小提琴手，名叫鲁道夫。 - If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
如果他以他那软弱的身心的整个力量爱她八年，也抵不上我一天的爱。 - Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.
虽然他看上去弱小，但却十分勇敢。 - 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。 - I may even spare your puny little life.
我说不定会饶了你这条小命。 - You'll never be able to lift that heavy box with your puny muscles.
你以这样瘦弱的肌肉是永远举不起那只沉重的箱子的。 - 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。