emaciated

英 [ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd]

美 [ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd]

adj.  (常指因疾病或缺少食物而)消瘦的，憔悴的，虚弱的
v.  使消瘦，使衰弱
emaciate的过去分词和过去式

过去式：emaciated　

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BNC.22385 / COCA.22698

牛津词典

adj.

• （常指因疾病或缺少食物而）消瘦的，憔悴的，虚弱的
  thin and weak, usually because of illness or lack of food

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （因疾病或饥饿而）消瘦的，骨瘦如柴的
  A person or animal that isemaciatedis extremely thin and weak because of illness or lack of food.
  1. ...horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners.
     电视上骨瘦如柴的囚犯们的恐怖画面

英英释义

adj

• very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  1. emaciated bony hands
  2. a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
  3. eyes were haggard and cavernous
  4. small pinched faces
  5. kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
  Synonym:bonycadaverousgaunthaggardpinchedskeletalwasted

双语例句

• She was emaciated by long illness.
  长期的疾病把她折磨得瘦骨伶仃。
• They fished in the big river, but somehow they were still very thin, emaciated, already old, some very crippled.
  他们在大河里捕鱼，但是不知怎地他们依然非常瘦弱、憔悴、已然衰老，其中一些人有严重的残疾。
• One might almost say emaciated. He pined and became melancholy.
  简直可以说是很憔悴。
• There were pictures of emaciated families on the cover of the magazine.
  杂志封面上是面黄肌瘦的几家人的照片。
• He was emaciated by long illness.
  他由于长期生病而瘦弱。
• Sick devils also become emaciated, because the tumors interfere with eating, and many mothers lose their young.
  同时，因为肿瘤会干扰到袋獾的进食，所以生病的袋獾通常会变得非常衰弱，这个时候，雌性的成年袋獾就很容易丧失它们的幼仔。
• On another occasion I saw a group of disoriented, emaciated Amerindians, begging for food by the side of the road.
  还有一次我看到了一群迷失了方向的印第安人，他们非常憔悴，站在路边乞讨食物。
• That was the medical ward on the fifth floor; my emaciated mother lay by the side of window.
  那是五楼内科病房，我的瘦弱的母亲躺在窗前。
• Emaciated kids begging milk from the callous governor.
  向冷漠的总督乞讨牛奶的瘦弱的孩子们。
• And he struck his breast with his emaciated fist.
  腾格拉尔说，他用他那瘦削的拳头捶着他的胸膛。