| 词汇 | underweight |
| 释义 | underweight adjective uk /ˌʌn.dəˈweɪt/ us /ˌʌn.dɚˈweɪt/ Underweight people weigh too little and are too thin: 体重不足的;过瘦的 According to the hospital chart he's four kilos underweight.照医院的体重表来看，他比标准体重轻4公斤。 Opposite overweight 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 underweight | American Dictionaryunderweight adjective us/ˌʌn·dərˈweɪt/ weighing less than usual: The children were found to be malnourished and underweight. underweight | Business Englishunderweight adjective STOCK MARKETuk /ˌʌndəˈweɪt/us used to describe portfolios that include too little of a particular type of share, bond, etc.: underweight in sthHe's seriously underweight in Japanese bonds, which make up only 8% of his portfolio. an underweight rating/recommendationThey initiated coverage of both stocks with an underweight rating. Compare overweight Examples of underweightunderweight Such babies may be at a more serious risk than those who are underweight because of short gestation only. However, based on prospective epidemiological studies since the mid-1980s, underweight has been also recognized as a risk factor for longevity especially among older populations. Second, post-harvest and pre-harvest underweight exhibited sharper seasonal patterns. An increase in the weight was welcomed by most of the patients because they were usually underweight and belonged to the lower socio-economic strata. Several previous workers have shown that the incidence of diarrhoea is higher in children who are underweight. This picture was gender-biased because women were more numerous than men among the underweight individuals during the post-harvest period. Others, such as underweight, might possibly be partially solvable through nutrition education. When combined with the notion of regret where individuals tend to overweight loss but underweight potential gain, this suggests that many people systematically avoid risk. Second, post-harvest underweight was far less common than in 1963-4. A very interesting instance of the representational and propaganda use of ducats so late in modern times, this issue was crudely made, underweight and aimed squarely at the rural population. Diarrhoea was more common in boys than in girls and more common in underweight children. Seven women described feeling insecure and unattractive as children because they had perceived themselves as being either underweight (three women) or overweight (four women) as compared with their age peers. Just as it is not healthy to be overweight, it is not healthy to be underweight. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 That means that the very group of people most likely to give birth to underweight babies are to be denied free milk. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In both cases, underweight was defined as a person with a body mass index of less than 20. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 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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