slim

英[sl?m] 美[sl?m]

反義詞stout

第三人稱單數:?slims;過去式:?slimmed;過去分詞:?slimmed;現在分詞:?slimming;比較級:?slimmer;最高級:?slimmest;名詞:?slimness;

1. 諧音“使你母”----使你母親變得很苗條。
2. 諧音“使你苗”----使你變得很苗條。
3. 諧音“是你苗”----是你很苗條。

slim 瘦弱的，苗條的，纖細的，使苗條，減肥

來自輔音叢 sl-,黏的，滑的，光滑的。引申比喻義瘦弱的，苗條的，纖細的，以及動詞詞義使苗條，減肥。

slim: slim: [17] Slim is now quite an upbeat word, but that is a comparatively new departure, for historically it has been neutral if not downright derogatory. It was borrowed from Dutch slim ‘small, inferior’, which went back via Middle Dutch slim ‘slanting, bad’ to a prehistoric Germanic *slimbaz ‘oblique, crooked’ (source also of German schlimm ‘bad’). It may be distantly related to Latvian slīps ‘crooked, steep’.
slim (adj.): 1650s, "thin, slight, slender," from Dutch slim "bad, sly, clever," from Middle Dutch slim "bad, crooked," from Proto-Germanic *slembaz "oblique, crooked" (cognates: Middle High German slimp "slanting, awry," German schlimm "bad, cunning, unwell"). In English 17c. also sometimes with a sense "sly, cunning, crafty." Related: Slimly; slimness. With obsolete extended adjectival forms Slimsy "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1845); slimikin "small and slender" (1745). Slim Jim attested from 1887 in sense of "very thin person;" from 1902 as a type of slender cigar; from 1975 as a brand of meat snack.
slim (v.): 1808, "to scamp one's work, do carelessly or superficially," from slim (adj.). Meaning "to make slim" (a garment, etc.) is from 1862; meaning "reduce (one's) weight" is from 1930. Related: Slimmed; slimming.

1. The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim.: 行星躲過超新星爆發的幾率總是十分渺茫。

4. He was a slim, solemn, darkly handsome young man.: 他是個身材修長、表情莊重、皮膚黝黑的帥小伙。

5. He published only three slim volumes of verse in his short life.: 在他短暫的一生里，他只出版過3卷薄薄的詩集。