词汇 | bag-of-bones |
释义 | bag of bones noun[ S ] informaluk /ˌbæɡ əv ˈbəʊnz/ us /ˌbæɡ əv ˈboʊnz/ someone who is extremely thin: 瘦骨嶙峋的人 The child was just a bag of bones when we found her.我们找到那个女孩时,她瘦得都皮包骨头了。 Animal physiology: thin or slender (of people) be as thin as a rakephrase be skin and bone(s)idiom ectomorph ectomorphic emaciated emaciation gauntly hollow lithe scrawny slender slight slimly slimness sparely thinness ultra-thin waif-like wasted wiry Examples of bag of bonesbag of bones Oh my, she is a bagofbones. He was like a bagofbones when he came to the door, in a shocking state. I had seen him, once a fine strong man, gradually turn into a bagofbones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I am rather nervous that each of the nine families concerned—lovely families, good families—will get a bagofbones. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 He was a bagofbones. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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