英语词汇“spry”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典-现代词典

spryspry /spraɪ/ adjective

WORD ORIGINspry

Origin:

1700-1800 Perhaps from a Scandinavian language

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES

EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS

A grey squirrel, spry after its winter sleep, startled Ben by scampering across his path.
Anne Enright is a very original writer-a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences.
Mum is still spry and energetic - and she's 91.
Out of doors Shaw continued to look spry and active well into his eighties.
Some of your team should be spry, others should be massive.
Though apparently quite spry, the old men's memories are not what they once were.

a spry old person has energy and is active SYN sprightly:

He’s still remarkably spry.—spryly adverb

单词	spry
释义	spryspry /spraɪ/ adjective Word Origin WORD ORIGINspry Origin: 1700-1800 Perhaps from a Scandinavian language Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES a spry silver-haired grandmother EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS A grey squirrel, spry after its winter sleep, startled Ben by scampering across his path. Anne Enright is a very original writer-a spry surrealist who challenges the world with extraordinary, lancing sentences. Mum is still spry and energetic - and she's 91. Out of doors Shaw continued to look spry and active well into his eighties. Some of your team should be spry, others should be massive. Though apparently quite spry, the old men's memories are not what they once were. a spry old person has energy and is active SYN sprightly: He’s still remarkably spry.—spryly adverb
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