puny

英 [ˈpjuːni]

美 [ˈpjuːni]

adj.  弱小的; 孱弱的; 不起眼的; 可怜的; 微不足道的

比较级：punier　最高级：puniest　

GRE

BNC.19445 / COCA.15824

牛津词典

adj.

• 弱小的；孱弱的
  small and weak
  1. The lamb was a puny little thing.
     羊羔瘦小孱弱。
• 不起眼的；可怜的；微不足道的
  not very impressive
  1. They laughed at my puny efforts.
     他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 弱小的；微弱的
  Someone or something that ispunyis very small or weak.
  1. ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
     戴眼镜的瘦弱青年
  2. 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。

英英释义

adj

• (used especially of persons) of inferior size
  Synonym:runtyshrimpy
• inferior in strength or significance
  1. a puny physique
  2. puny excuses

双语例句

• 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。
• As such, these puny foraminifera serve as very distinct tags of when the K-T extinction event started.
  因此，当K-T灭绝事件开始时这些微小的有孔虫充当十分鲜明的标签。
• Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.
  虽然相对于宇宙而言，我们显得那样卑微渺小、微不足道，但是我们却在某种意义上充当了造物主的角色。
• Phantom: You puny pathetic thing! I'll step on you like an ant!
  蜘蛛：你这个可怜虫！我将会像踩扁一只蚂蚁一样踩扁你！
• I may even spare your puny little life.
  我说不定会饶了你这条小命。
• Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
  境外账户的利率小的可怜，因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。
• If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
  如果他以他那软弱的身心的整个力量爱她八年，也抵不上我一天的爱。
• My car only has a puny little engine.
  我的汽车只有一只功率很小的引擎。
• Not anything that we puny humans could ever do.
  没有任何我们这样微不足道的人类曾经做过的事情。
• Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.
  虽然他看上去弱小，但却十分勇敢。