| 单词 | wiry |
| 释义 | wiryWord family (noun) wire wireless wiring (adjective) wiry wired wireless (verb) wire From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishwirywir‧y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjective1 THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles2 BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strongExamples from the Corpuswiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling. |
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