瘦小

Mom always said she was the runt of the litter.

妈妈总是说：她是瘦小的那只

Matthew was not looking at her and would not have seen what she was really like if he had been, but an ordinary observer would have seen this: A child of about eleven, garbed in a very short, very tight, very ugly dress of yellowish-gray wincey. She wore a faded brown sailor hat and beneath the hat, extending down her back, were two braids of very thick, decidedly red hair. Her face was small, white and thin, also much freckled; her mouth was large and so were her eyes, which looked green in some lights and moods and gray in others.

用普通人的眼光看，这是个十岁左右的女孩儿，上身穿着又脏又难看且过于短小的浅黄色灰绒布罩衫，头上戴着一顶已经褪了色的褐色水兵帽，帽子下面是一头浓密的红发，两根小辫子从帽子下面伸出来，瘦小而苍白的脸上长着好些雀斑，大眼睛大嘴巴，眼睛在处于某些神情和情绪时看起来是绿色的，在其他情况下则是灰色的。

On the ninth tee, he surveyed the landscape: scrawny mesquite trees, dying grass, sand and a tick-ridden jack rabbit.

在第九发球区，他环视了一下周围的景色，见到的是瘦小的牧豆树、快要凋谢的花草、沙土，还有一只受虱蝇折磨的长耳野兔。

Jimmy was a sawed-off, skinny runt.

吉米是一个瘦小的孩子。

I am sure you would never remember me again, that poor widow who was a teacher in primary school and her minor and scraggy daughter.

你 肯定再也不会想起我，想不起那个寒酸的小学教员寡妇，和她那尚未成年的瘦小的女儿。

It was always at my heels wagging its scrawny tail.

他总是跟在我后面，摇著瘦小的尾巴。

He got shot in his scrawny little butt in Normandy.

他在诺曼第时瘦小的屁股中了弹

Nor was it his thin,wiry body,for he was rather scrawny looking.

也不是因为他那瘦小的身材，他让人看起来真的骨瘦如柴。

One day a scrawny little man came up and said in a low voice,"I'd like to try the bet."

一天，一个瘦小男人走来并低声说："我愿打这个赌。"

Seuss's If I Ran the Zoo :"And then, just to show them, I'll sail to Ka-Troo And Bring Back an It-Kutch a Preep and a Proo a Nerkle a Nerd and a Seersucker, too!"

蠢货本身是一个具有人类特点的小动物，一副好笑发怒的样子，像瘦小很生气的切斯特·A阿瑟）。

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。