| 单词 | stony |
| 释义 | stony (once / 762 pages) adj Someone who's stony shows little emotion or sympathy for other people. As your math teacher hands back last week's geometry quiz, her stony face won't seem like a very good sign. A face with a stony expression is so lacking in feeling that it is "like stone." The other way to use the adjective stony is to mean "with lots of stones," like when you talk about a stony blueberry field in Maine or a stony path leading up to a lush garden. Stony comes from the Old English stanig, with its root of stan, "rock or gem." WORD FAMILYstony: stonier, stoniest, stonily+/stone: stoned, stoneless, stonelike, stoner, stones, stoning, stony/stoner: stoners/stoning: stonings USAGE EXAMPLESThe Sachem High School East student was transported to Stony Brook University Hospital for treatment of hip fractures. Washington Times(Dec 22, 2016) Two FBI agents approached her, their faces stony. Wall Street Journal(Dec 02, 2016) Stony Brook University began a series of training sessions this week with school officials using dummy body parts. Seattle Times(Nov 29, 2016) 1adj abounding in rocks or stones stony ground Syn bouldered, bouldery, rocky rough, unsmooth having or caused by an irregular surface 2adj hard as granite Syn granitelike, granitic, rocklike hard resisting weight or pressure 3adj showing unfeeling resistance to tender feelings Syn flint, flinty, granitic, obdurate hardhearted, heartless lacking in feeling or pity or warmth |
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