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skin and bones

皮肤和骨骼,皮肤和骨头,皮包骨头,皮肉之躯

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a condition or state of extreme thinness, usually the result of malnutrition; emaciation: Anorexia had reduced her to skin and bones.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inmeager
as ingaunt

Examples

  • As an example of good science-and-society policymaking, the history of fluoride may be more of a cautionary tale.

  • As this list shows, punishments typically run to a short-ish jail sentence and/or a moderately hefty fine.

  • Creating PGCs from skin tissue, on the other hand, seems like a walk in the park compared to egg freezing.

  • Yes, Byrd—dead four-and-a-half years now—was a Kleagle in the Ku Klux Klan.

  • “I sense that mobile games are starting to shed their skin, getting rid of all the dead things they carry around,” he says.

  • Many of us had been hit by the balls, but a bruise or a graze of the skin was the worst consequence that had ensued.

  • She also practises etching, pen-and-ink drawing, as well as crayon and water-color sketching.

  • No law of that country must exceed in words the number of letters in their alphabet, which consists only in two-and-twenty.

  • A lurid spot on each cheek showed burning red through the bronze of his skin.

  • I saw this girl, eight or nine years old, all benumbed and nothing but skin and bone.