单词	paper-thin
释义	paper-thinˌpaper-ˈthin adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES paper-thin slices of raw beef The walls in this apartment are paper-thin; I can hear everything they're saying next door. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS By the early 1950s the claim that agriculture saved valuable foreign exchange was already paper-thin. Her sophistication was paper-thin, and underneath she was just a very young, and probably over-protected, girl. Lunch is a sparse plate of sandwiches with salmon paste or paper-thin processed turkey roll. Slice the ginger paper-thin and scatter it, along with the onion slices, over the fish. Suddenly, hideously, the world had become a mask - a paper-thin veil behind which lay another nightmare world. The wrinkled skin was stretched tightly over the bones, paper-thin, blue-shadowed over pink crêpe. This is made of paper-thin material pierced by a number of small lenses. With his brother he invented a paper-thin malt flavoured toasted flake of maize - the Corn Flake. Thesaurus THESAURUSobject/material► thin not wide: · a thin slice of cake· a thin layer of ice· The gold was very thin. ► slim thin, especially in a way that looks attractive: · a slim volume of poetry· a slim mobile phone· a slim wooden box ► slender written tall or long and thin, in a way that looks attractive, but is often not very strong: · the slender columns that supported the roof· The spider was hanging by a slender thread. ► paper-thin/wafer-thin extremely thin, like paper: · The walls of the apartment were paper-thin.· wafer-thin slices of pastry· The petals are paper-thin. Longman Language Activatorflat and thin► thin · a thin slice of bread· In her pocket was a thin leather wallet containing six ten dollar bills.· The lake was covered with a thin layer of ice.· How do you get your sugar cookies so thin, Dagmar? ► paper-thin extremely thin - use this about thin pieces of food or about walls that are very thin: · paper-thin slices of raw beef· The walls in this apartment are paper-thin; I can hear everything they're saying next door. ► slim a book, box etc that is slim is thin in an attractive way and usually of good quality: · Claude gave me a slim gold box for holding my business cards.· a slim volume of poetry very thin:  paper-thin walls► see thesaurus at thin
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