| 释义 |
‖ chétif, a.|ʃetif|
Also fem. chétive |ʃetiv|.
[Fr.]
Sickly, thin, weak, esp. of a person's constitution; miserable, wretched.
1801C. W. Wynn Let. in Corr. (1920) 62, I hail you by your newly acquired Title in comparison of which the appellation of Clerk is certainly as you say chetive. 1908Daily Chron. 30 Oct. 4/4 Her tall, strapping girl is usually accompanied in the streets by a chétive, but rather pretty little maid. 1914D. H. Lawrence Prussian Officer 75 A small, chétif man, scarcely larger than a boy of twelve. 1920D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxx. 522 He looked chétif and puny. 1921Blackw. Mag. Feb. 250/1 Upon this small coterie..there burst..this insignificant chétive child. 1946H. Nicolson Diary 29 July (1968) 69 Our delegation does not look impressive. Attlee, so small, so chétif; A. V. Alexander, sturdy but scrubby; Hector McNeil, Scotch and dour. 1976J. Bayley Uses of Division i. i. 35 The unconscious humour of the glowing texture, in accounts of food, clothes, gesture and speech; and the way in which these things emerge in contrast to the chétif and malign accuracy of self-glorifying intention. |