1.THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles 〔人〕瘦而结实的
2.BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strong 〔毛发或草〕硬而结实的
Examples from the Corpus
wiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damagedcomplexion, he could have been a retiredflyweightboxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially cappedsmile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twistingelectricalwires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharpnose and deep-set eyes.• Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shootingbirds.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wirypark service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.