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able-bodied

/ey-buhl-bod-eed/US // ˈeɪ bəlˈbɒd id //

健全的,健壮的,健全,健壮

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having a strong, healthy body; physically fit: A couple of able-bodied guys dragged the tree off to the shoulder of the road and got traffic moving again.
    • : Sometimes Offensive. free from or unaffected by physical disability: There is a three-month limit on food assistance benefits for able-bodied adults who work fewer than 20 hours per week.

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Examples

  • The escort site Cowboys4Angels peddles chiseled, hot-bodied men and their smoldering model looks to women willing to pay.

  • Why they are so important for physically and cognitively disabled kids (and their able bodied peers).

  • The (very wealthy) de la Renta women wore bold colors, flared sleeves, full-bodied skirts and trousers.

  • GIF-able when he goes jogging in sweatpants, if you know what I mean.

  • The total “reality” that Kim offered to her fans made her brand incredibly popular, but it also made her so entirely mock-able.

  • He was a big-bodied, big-hearted, ruddy-faced, farmerlike man of fifty or so; and the service was proud of him.

  • It is followed by forty-four pages of argument and illustration relating exclusively to the able-bodied wage-earner.

  • The wonder is that between sword and halter there was any able-bodied man left in Munster.

  • As in the Report itself, no definition is given in the Act of what was meant by "able-bodied persons."

  • We can find no explanation of, or reason for, the entire absence of any provision for independent women who were able-bodied.