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slim

/slim/US // slɪm //UK // (slɪm) //

苗条,纤细的,纤细,苗条的

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adj.形容词 adjective
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    slim·mer, slim·mest.

    • : slender, as in girth or form; slight in build or structure.
    • : poor or inferior: a slim chance; a slim excuse.
    • : small or inconsiderable; meager; scanty: a slim income.
    • : sized for the thinner than average person.
v.有主动词 verb
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    slimmed, slim·ming.

    • : to make slim.
v.无主动词 verb
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    slimmed, slim·ming.

    • : to become slim.
    • : Chiefly British. to try to become more slender, especially by dieting.
n.名词 noun
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    • : a garment size meant for a thin person.
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    • : slim down, to lose weight, especially intentionally. to reduce operating expenses; economize.

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Examples

  • It was a slim volume called “Illness as Metaphor,” by Susan Sontag.

  • With very slim wrists, the sweater fits easily under gloves and jackets.

  • All you really need to know is that Democrats don’t seem likely to use their slim majority to gut the filibuster.

  • So generally when advertising on Amazon margins are slimmer, than when advertising on other channels.

  • Weighted out across the two scenarios,5 Kansas City is an extremely slim 51 percent favorite in the model — essentially too close to call, for now.

  • He was one of living symbols of “White Ribbon Revolution” of 2012, always in black, slim, shaved, almost a monk.

  • Slim turned Bush down, and Lehman filed for bankruptcy in September 2008, just weeks before the presidential election.

  • It was slim, about “fifty to sixty pages,” according to Bradlee, and mostly concerned with her paintings.

  • For months, first term Democratic incumbent Kay Hagan has managed to cling to slim lead that has defied national factors.

  • Stangneth probes his affairs in Argentina, including with Ingrid von Ihne, “tall, blond, and slim, with a cold beauty.”

  • I pictured him as slim and young looking, smooth-faced, with golden curly hair, and big brown eyes.

  • His boyish suspenders had been put away in favor of a belt, which was tight-drawn about his slim waist.

  • One evening in the month of April, a slim, straight-backed girl stood in the veranda of a bungalow at Meerut.

  • Bedded in the soft earth underneath lay the slim buckskin sacks.

  • Outen the side door of the porch next me come a slim, little figger in white.