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paper-thin

/pey-per-thin/US // ˈpeɪ pərˈθɪn //

薄如纸,薄如纸的,薄如纸张的,薄如纸张

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : extremely thin: a paper-thin razor blade.
    • : inadequate or unconvincing; flimsy: a paper-thin excuse.

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Examples

  • Also, she was tall and thin, too, further adding to the ways she met the physical beauty conventions.

  • Back when Sam went upstate, job searches required nothing more than a typewriter, some paper, and the classifieds.

  • “We would just as soon stay away from a group that will create controversy,” the Cubs general manager Sam Bernabe told the paper.

  • The reality TV mogul bared her butt—and everything else, too—for Paper Magazine in a spread that sent Twitter into a tizzy.

  • Fold the parchment paper with the dry ingredients in half and pour into the stand mixer.

  • Even as they gazed they saw its roof caught up, and whirled off as if it had been a scroll of paper.

  • A small book, bound in full purple calf, lay half hidden in a nest of fine tissue paper on the dressing-table.

  • This has a warm though a thin soil, which must be highly favorable to the Vine to induce so exclusive a devotion to it.

  • Bits of paper blew aimlessly about, wafted by a little, feverish breeze, which rose in spasms and died away.

  • The Spaniards since have substituted paper for the leaves of maize, in imitation of them.