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
- And how do these puny pods protect your face?
这些小小豆荚如何保护你的肌肤呢？ - 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。 - I may even spare your puny little life.
我说不定会饶了你这条小命。 - 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。 - Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
境外账户的利率小的可怜，因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。 - 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。 - 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。 - This puny mortal will be no problem.
对付这个凡人，会顺利的。 - Yes, you Asians and the Jews have taken up all the IQ points in the world, and the rest of us are lucky to be endowed with the puny remaining IQ's.
是的，你们亚洲人和犹太人拥有世上几乎所有的智商，我们其他人则很幸运地被赐予余下智商中的一丁点儿。 - Our intention is to rescue the puny kids who could have their minds twisted due to parents like yourself.
救助弱小是我们的本意，我们不希望未成年人在你这样的父母羽翼下扭曲成长。