| 单词 | brawny |
| 释义 | brawny (once / 3257 pages) adj Someone brawny is bulky and muscular. Most football players are brawny. Brawn refers to muscles and physical strength: people often contrast brains and brawn. Therefore, if someone is brawny, they have large muscles and are quite strong. Many athletes are brawny, especially ones such as weightlifters and football players. Tennis players and jockeys are usually smaller and not so brawny. A brawny person is big, strong, rugged, and tough. If you'd like to be brawnier, go to the gym. WORD FAMILYbrawny: brawnier, brawniest, brawnily, brawniness+/brawn: brawns, brawny USAGE EXAMPLESIt’s the brawny creation of a man who teaches not at a conventional art school but at the Rochester Institute of Technology. Washington Post(Dec 08, 2016) While I have nothing against Turley Zinfandels, the wines are a very specific type: big, brawny and fairly high in alcohol. Wall Street Journal(Nov 23, 2016) Not surprisingly, those qualities bristled throughout the brawny, intense account he led of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. New York Times(Nov 18, 2016) adj (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful Syn hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy strong having strength or power greater than average or expected |
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