瘦削的人

Though Jou-chia could not compare with Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress, who was so slim-waisted that swallowing one quinine pill would have made her look pregnant, she was undeniably slim

柔嘉虽然比不上法国剧人贝恩哈脱，腰身纤细得一粒奎宁丸吞到肚子里就像怀孕，但瘦削是不能否认的。

He looked at them, and saw in them, without knowing it, the slow sure filing down of misery-worn face and figure, that was to make the meagerness of Frenchmen an English superstition which should survive the truth through the best part of a hundred years.

他也看看他们，虽然看到，却没有感觉到那些受到细水长流的痛苦磨损的面孔与人形。这类形象在英国人心目中形成了一种迷信：法国人总是瘦削憔悴的。而这种迷信在那类实际情况消失之后差不多一百年还存在着。

She was thin without the taut look of wiry people.

她瘦削但没有瘦人常有的紧巴巴的样子。

Because of its thinness the mouth and eyes looked disproportionately large, and the eyes seemed filled with a murderous , unappeasable hatred of somebody or something

由于瘦削，眼睛和嘴巴就大得不成比例，眼睛里似乎有一种对什么人或什么东西都怀有刻骨仇恨的恶狠狠神情。

Tall, blue-striped people with yellow eyes, or what mankind might have been if it had evolved in harmony with, and not in opposition to, the Edenic environment that gave rise to its birth.

这些纳维人高约10尺，身形瘦削，皮肤上有蓝色条纹，长着黄色眼睛。如果人类能够和谐地在给予他们生命的伊甸园里进化而不是与其对抗的话，也许也会变成那个样子。

Living among these creatures is Pandora's humanish tribe, the Na'vi, a lean, 10-ft.

在这些神奇生物中生活的是潘多拉的人类部落——纳维人，他们身形瘦削，高约10尺，带有蓝纹皮肤，黄色眼睛。

Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs — physically robust, psychologically assertive — and ectomorphs—skinny, nervous, sky.

本世纪初，在行为遗传学方面的一项初步研究将人分为运动型体格以及清瘦型体格（身体瘦削，神经紧张，好害羞）。

Fl Early in this century, a fledgling effort at behavioral genetics divided people into such classes as mesomorphs — physically robust, psychologically assertive — and ectomorphs—skinny, nervous, sky.

TIME， Mar.10， 1997， p.41 本世纪初，在行为遗传学方面的一项初步研究将人分为运动型体格以及 Chapter1 简易词形容词，副词 6 清瘦型体格(身体瘦削，神经紧张，好害羞)。

They all seem to look alike -lean, pointed, dedicated faces, wearing jeans and sandals, eating their buns and bedding down for the night on the flagstones outside the theatre to buy the 20 seats and 80 standing-room tickets held for the sleepers and sold to them when the box office opens at

他们看起来都一个样（虽然他们从各个地方而来）--瘦削、率直、专注的脸庞，穿着牛仔裤和便鞋，吃着小圆面包，在剧场外的石板上过夜，以便能买得起20张座票和80张站票，这些票都是为那些睡觉的人准备的，并且在票房第二天上午10点半开始售票时就卖给他们。

Most of the tourist party spent the afternoon lying on their beds with the shades drawn, but Jim, who was as lean as an alley cat, suffered much less than the others from the heat and humidity .

旅游团的大多数人下午都放下窗帘躺在床上睡觉，但是吉姆虽然那么瘦削却没有像别人那样因为炎热和潮湿感到那么难受。

The split between the two groups can hardly be papered over.

这两个团体间的分歧难以掩饰。

This approach not only encourages a greater number of responses, but minimizes the likelihood of stale groupthink.

这种做法不仅鼓励了更多的反应，而且减少跟风的可能性。