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单词 wiry
释义
wirywir‧y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjective Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico
  • Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.
  • About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.
  • Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.
  • His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.
  • Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.
  • Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.
  • The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.
Thesaurus
Longman Language Activatorthin and strong-looking
thin and physically fit, especially because you do a lot of exercise or physical work: · He's a very handsome man: tall, lean and tanned with thick blond hair.· At seventy-two my grandfather was lean and strong and I expected him to live forever.· She had a runner's lean physique and an overall healthy glow.
a man or boy who is wiry is thin and strong, though often not very tall: · Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.· a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSNOUN
· Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.· Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and darting, deep-set eyes.· Lou Minton was a wiry man with gaunt, chiseled features and prematurely gray hair, combed straight back.
Word family
WORD FAMILYnounwirewirelesswiringadjectivewirywiredwirelessverbwire
1someone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles2wiry hair or grass is stiff and strong
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