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ADJ-GRADED
弱小的；微弱的 Someone or something that is puny is very small or weak.
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...a puny, bespectacled youth...
戴眼镜的瘦弱青年
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The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny.
中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
- Adjective
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1. inferior in strength or significance;
- "a puny physique"
- "puny excuses"
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2. (used especially of persons) of inferior size
- 1. Have grandiose aims but puny abilities,great ambition but little talent.
- 眼高手低，志大才疏。
来自《简明英汉词典》
- 2. We did not meet again for ten years,by then,the rather puny boy had grown into a six-foot man,weighing 200 pounds.
- 我们有10年没有见面了，本来是一个小不点的男孩子，现在已长成6英尺高200磅重的大个儿了。
来自《简明英汉词典》
