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gaunt
[英] [gɔ:nt] [美] [ɡɔnt] 生词本

adj.

n.

  • 易混淆的单词：Gaunt  

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  • 英英释义

1. ADJ-GRADED （因生病、焦虑等）瘦削的，憔悴的 If someone looks gaunt, they look very thin, usually because they have been very ill or worried. 

  • Looking gaunt and tired, he denied there was anything to worry about.

    他看起来消瘦而疲惫，却说没什么可担心的。

2. ADJ-GRADED （建筑物）寒碜的，非常不起眼的，难看的 If you describe a building as gaunt, you mean it is very plain and unattractive. 

  • Above on the hillside was a large, gaunt, grey house.

    山坡上有幢难看的灰色大房子。

Adjective

1. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;

  • "emaciated bony hands"
  • "a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys"
  • "eyes were haggard and cavernous"
  • "small pinched faces"
  • "kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"