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
- Morbo: Presenting puny human number one, puny human number two and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
莫尔博：现在出现的是弱小人类一号，弱小人类二号和莫尔博的好朋友理查德·尼克松。 - Looking at these skyscrapers and these lighted windows in a row at night, one gets more and more conceited about the power of human civilization and forgets what puny little creatures human beings are.
一个人看见这些摩天楼和夜间的一列有灯光的窗户时，对于人类文明的力量越发感到骄傲而自负，而忘记人类是多么孱弱而渺小的动物。 - What can puny human strength take by force out of the hand of Omnipotence?
微弱的人们能用武力从全能者的手中夺取祝福么？ - And how do these puny pods protect your face?
这些小小豆荚如何保护你的肌肤呢？ - 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。 - As you have recognized our superiority, we will let your puny civilization survive for the moment.
既然你已经承认我们的优越性，我想我们会暂时饶你们这次等文明一条狗命的。 - 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。 - 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。 - That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players.
你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。 - As such, these puny foraminifera serve as very distinct tags of when the K-T extinction event started.
因此，当K-T灭绝事件开始时这些微小的有孔虫充当十分鲜明的标签。