| 单词 | fat |
| 释义 | fat I. 1. obsolete 2. archaic 3. II. 1. a. < a cute fat little baby > < ate a fat capon for supper > b. < a woman of medium height, a little plump but not fat — Mary McCarthy > c. of an animal d. of food < a fat, rich cheese > 2. a. < a fat letter > < a fat volume of verse > : big < a resistor spark plug … permits a wider gap, thus a fatter hotter spark — Newsweek > : unusually large < he had to pay a fat price to move his factory — Martin Turnell > : substantial and impressive < point to some fat facts and figures to justify his claim — Time > < a fat bank account > < make a mule of myself for a fat fee on the stage — Harry Bailey > also < a gorgeous fat bass voice — Irish Digest > < the fat aroma of chocolate and coffee — Marcia Davenport > b. < a fat refrigerator > < a fat shelf > < this book is fat with firsthand information — Frank Rounds > : abundant < a fat feast > also < grew fat on the war — Time > c. of a type face d. of a line of copy or type < a fat heading > e. of a slug < trimming knives set to cast slugs .0015 inch fat > 3. a. < a fat part in a new play > : markedly profitable or lucrative or presenting a marked opportunity of profit or advantage < a nice fat job > < a fat opening in a business firm > < landed in the fat post of governor of Buenos Aires — Time > b. slang < the depression left us with a fat chance of making our first million > < a fat lot of good it did him — Arthur Koestler > c. archaic, of matter printed on a handpress d. < the dull, soft, fat routine of peace — F.E.Robin > 4. < growing soft on the fat land and the easy living > < a fat year for crops > 5. a. of clay or soil b. of beer or wine c. of air or mist d. of wood < pine splinters fat with pitch — Rebecca Caudill > e. of coal f. of a pavement g. of mortar h. of lime 6. a. < a foolish smile on his fat face > < fat stupidity > b. < got myself in trouble because I did not use my fat head > Synonyms: < the unreasonably fat woman with legs like tree trunks — Katherine A. Porter > < he remained fat, and his round, red cheeks shone like ripe apples — W.S.Maugham > fleshy is a close synonym for fat but may suggest an abundance of muscular flesh as well as adipose < my appetite is plenty good enough, and I am about as fleshy as I was in Brooklyn — Walt Whitman > stout suggests a thickset figure with abundant flesh, but is a less uncomplimentary word than fat < one very stout gentleman, whose body and legs looked like half a gigantic roll of flannel — Charles Dickens > corpulent suggests a bulky excess of flesh, either graceless or burly < a large burly man, gradually growing corpulent, with a soft oily face — Anthony Trollope > obese suggests a graceless excess of flesh; it is often used in medical or pathological discussion and is always quite uncomplimentary < a woman of robust frame … though stout, not obese — Charlotte Brontë > < a retarded, obese child who died young > chubby may suggest rounded ample flesh; it is often used in reference to children and suggests well-nurtured health and appeal < [children] looked so fresh and pink and chubby — Bruce Marshall > rotund stresses the notion of roundness and is applicable without being umcomplimentary to more-or-less short men and women of ample girth < a rotund governor, five feet six inches in height, six feet five inches in circumference > portly suggests a thickset body with quite ample girth sustained with presence and carried with dignity < large, imposing, portly people … with the air of grave responsibility which sometimes marks the man of large and imperious physical organism — Havelock Ellis > plump suggests soft, pleasing, ample, buxom fullness with well-rounded curves and lack of sharp angularity < his wife was … plump where he was spare — Dorothy Sayers > III. intransitive verb < large fatting pigs — British Ministry of Agric. Advisory Leaflet > transitive verb 1. < fatted out as porkers — E.W.Lloyd > < fat her up and kill her — Aldous Huxley > 2. archaic 3. a. b. < a well-fatted soap > IV. 1. < the fat of meat > 2. a. b. c. 3. a. < living on the fat of the land > b. 4. < a person somewhat inclined to fat > 5. < commercial producers, all of whose pigs are being sold as fats — New Zealand Journal of Agric. > 6. a. < slicing a little fat off the city budget — Anthony West > < the new reserves would have to come from the remaining fat of the United States not yet stripped for total war — Time > b. < while the country is in a relative depression, it can still live for a time off its fat — Newsweek > V. Scotland variant of what VI. variant of phat |
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