puny

puny怎么读

英式音标：[ˈpju:ni]

美式音标：[ˈpjuni]

puny基本解释

adj. 弱小的；微不足道的；微小的

puny的意思释义

adj.

小于一般尺寸的；微不足道的；弱小的；微弱的

英英释义

adj.

inferior in strength or significance

\"a puny physique\"; \"puny excuses\"

(used especially of persons) of inferior size

同义词：runtyshrimpy

puny用法及例句

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

They laughed at my puny efforts at rock-climbing.

他们取笑我在攀岩活动中的那可怜劲儿。

Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.

他看上去虽然瘦弱，但人很勇敢。

They laughed at my puny efforts.

他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。

Some doctors are pretty puny characters.

医生中也不乏庸庸碌碌之辈。

例句参考

The puny payoff from office computers

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Our Puny Boundaries: Why the Craving for Carving up the Nineteenth Century?

Analysis for the Urban Puny Colony and Institutional Supply

Pious Words, Puny Deeds: The “International Community” and Mass Atrocities

Puny males punch above their weight to preserve genetic diversity in a declining Atlantic salmon population

As Nanotech\'s Promise Grows, Will Puny Particles Present Big Health Problems?

Matsumoto Metrics of Constant Flag Curvature: A Puny Class of Finsler Metrics with Constant Curvature

Elementary Discussion on Application of Puny Surface Dealt Technology in Expressway Asphalt Road Surface Maintenance

puny词源

puny

puny: [16] Etymologically, puny means ‘born later’. It was borrowed from Old French puisne, a compound adjective formed from puis ‘afterwards’ and ne ‘born’ (a relative of English native, nature, etc). This signified ‘junior’, in which sense it was originally acquired by English as puisne. This spelling survives (albeit pronounced the same as puny) as a term denoting a judge of junior rank, and the anglicized orthography has since the 18th century been reserved to ‘feeble, small’.=> nation, native, nature

puny (adj.)

1570s, \"inferior in rank\" (1540s as a noun, \"junior pupil, freshman\"), from Middle French puisné (Modern French puîné), from Old French puisne \"born later, younger, youngest\" (12c., contrasted with aisné \"first-born\"), from puis nez, from puis \"afterward\" (from Vulgar Latin *postius, from Latin postea \"after this, hereafter,\" from post \"after,\" see post-, + ea \"there\") + Old French né \"born,\" from Latin natus, past participle of nasci \"be born\" (Old Latin gnasci; see genus). Sense of \"small, weak, insignificant\" first recorded 1590s. Compare puisne. Related: Puniness.