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wafer-thin

/wey-fer-thin/US // ˈweɪ fərˈθɪn //

薄如蝉翼,薄薄的,薄如蝉翼的,薄片

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : very thin: a wafer-thin slice.

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Examples

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

  • “I like decorating my slaves,” she said, referencing the rope, her thin, crimson-coated lips peeling off her front teeth.

  • Cheney is relying on some thin evidence to tie Hussein to al-Qaida.

  • They were done to give a thin patina of ersatz legitimacy to what is otherwise flagrant sexual assault.

  • We had a very thin book that we had to create characters with some different complexity.

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

  • Lionel Wafer in his travels upon the Isthmus of Darien in 1699 saw the plant growing and cultivated by the natives.

  • The Princess was pale and thin; and, though dressed superbly, seemed fitter for her chamber.

  • Her thin and narrow hands held the balcony railing rather tightly.

  • His slight, thin, rather graceless figure seemed suddenly to expand, even to grow taller.