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TOEFL BNC: 1670 COCA: 1621

thin

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ldoce_335_fthin1 /θɪn/ ●●● S2 W2 adjectiveadj (comparativecomp thinner, superlativesupl thinnest)  
1  not thick 薄；细THIN OBJECT OR MATERIAL if something is thin, there is only a small distance between its two opposite sides or surfaces 薄的；细的 OPP thick
 a thin gold chain
一条细细的金链
 She’s only wearing a thin summer jacket (=a jacket made of light material).
她只穿了一件薄薄的夏装外套。
 two thin slices of bread
薄薄的两片面包
 The road was covered with a thin layer of ice.
路面上覆盖着一层薄薄的冰。
 The skin on the eyelids is the thinnest on the body.
眼睑上的皮肤是人体最薄的皮肤。
paper/wafer thin (=very thin) 薄如纸的，非常薄的
 Keep your voice down – the walls are paper thin.
小点声，墙很薄。
→5  See picture of a narrow lane 狭窄的巷子, a thin slice of lemon 柠檬薄片, a fine paintbrush 纤细的画笔, a slim phone 薄薄的手机 →4  See picture of 见图 thin
2  not fat 不胖的THIN PERSON having little fat on your body 〔身体〕瘦的 OPP fat
 He was tall and thin, with short brown hair.
他又高又瘦，一头棕色的短发。
thin arms/legs/lips etc
 He has long thin hands.
他有一双瘦长的手。
 Most high school girls say they want to be thinner.
大多数中学女生都说希望自己再瘦些。
nas thin as a rake/rail/whippet (=very thin)
3  hair 毛发FEW/NOT MANY if someone has thin hair, they do not have a lot of hair 〔毛发〕稀疏的
 a thin straggly beard
稀疏杂乱的胡子
 His hair is quite thin on top.
他头顶上的头发稀稀拉拉的。
4  liquid 液体LIQUID a liquid that is thin flows very easily because it has a lot of water in it 稀的，淡的 OPP thick
 thin paint
稀油漆
5  smoke/mist 烟/雾霭SEE smoke or mist that is thin is easy to see through 稀薄的，淡薄的 OPP thick
 The fog is quite thin in places.
有些地方雾很薄。
6  air 空气DN air that is thin is more difficult to breathe than usual because it has less oxygen in it 〔空气〕稀薄的
 the thinner air high in the mountains
高山上较为稀薄的空气
7  excuse/argument/evidence etc 借口/论据/证据等BELIEVE a thin excuse, argument, or evidence is not good or detailed enough to be useful or effective 贫乏的，空泛的，不能令人信服的
 Evidence that capital punishment deters crime is pretty thin.
极刑能制止犯罪的说法缺少有力的证据。
8  a thin margin/majority etc a very small number or amount of something 极小的差额/多数等
 Engle beat Blanchard by a razor-thin margin (=a very small number of votes) in the race for governor.
恩格尔在州长竞选中以极其微弱的多数票优势击败了布兰查德。
9  smile 笑 a thin smile does not seem very happy or sincere 冷淡的；不真心实意的
 Charlie gave her a thin smile.
查利对她淡淡一笑。
10  voice/sound 话音/声音HIGH SOUND OR VOICE a thin voice or sound is high and unpleasant to listen to 尖声细气的；刺耳难听的
 His thin voice trailed off.
他尖细的声音越来越小，最后听不到了。
11  the thin end of the wedge British EnglishBrE spokenHARM/BE BAD FOR an expression meaning something that you think is the beginning of a harmful development 糟糕事情的开始
 Workers believe the job cuts are just the thin end of the wedge.
工人们认为裁员只是厄运的开始。
12  be thin on the ground RAREif a particular type of person or thing is thin on the ground, there are very few available 不是随处可见，十分少有
Examples from the Corpus
be thin on the ground• Our only problem is finding staff, because good programmers are really thin on the ground.• By the mid-1970s, managers and executives in the late 30s to late 40s age group were thin on the ground.• Major launches were thin on the ground.• New textbooks on nuclear and particle physics are thin on the ground.• Not surprisingly, business news was thin on the ground.• Systems integrators and resellers are thin on the ground, and there is little home-grown technology.• Hard evidence is thin on the ground, and what there is, is not encouraging.• Magazines about home improvement were very thin on the ground at the time - not like now.• Even now, as in the beginning, women are thin on the ground in the service.• The cabs were thinner on the ground now, so I kept a couple of cars between us.
13. be having a thin time (of it) British EnglishBrE spokenPOOR to be in a difficult situation, especially one in which you do not have enough money 过得不顺，遇到麻烦〔尤指钱不够用〕
14  be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice PROBLEMto be in a situation in which you are likely to upset someone or cause trouble 处境不妙，很可能招惹麻烦
Examples from the Corpus
be (walking/treading/skating) on thin ice• It had been granted grudgingly and she knew she was on thin ice as far as her superiors were concerned.• He was on thin ice before.
15  disappear/vanish into thin air DISAPPEARto disappear completely in a mysterious way 神秘地消失不见
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disappear/vanish into thin air• As happened during and after the first war of independence, the money has disappeared into thin air.• It was almost as if he'd vanished into thin air.• Maybe each and every one of them had vanished into thin air.• The Cheshire cat is an odd character and he causes confusion when he literally disappears into thin air.• Victor and his kidnappers had disappeared into thin air.• Yet he seemed to disappear into thin air.• You can tell these mysterious trails were not made yesterday, because of the way they seem to disappear into thin air.• The money which has suddenly and mysteriously become available simply vanishes into thin air as Ruggiero Miletti magically reappears.
16  out of thin air out of nowhere, as if by magic 凭空，无中生有
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out of thin air• The juice landed on the floor like a red bubbly snake, a bad omen suddenly materializing out of thin air.• Ray picks a number out of thin air -- generally below wholesale -- and the deal is done.• He found rhymes irresistible, and produced them out of thin air, just for the fun of it.
→ wear1(6)
—thinness noun [uncountableU]
 THESAURUS
person 人
thin having little fat on your body 瘦的
a tall, thin man
一名高高瘦瘦的男子
slim thin in an attractive way 苗条的
her slim figure
她苗条的身材
a slim woman in her fifties
一位五十多岁苗条的女性
Magazines are always full of advice about how to stay slim.
杂志上总是有很多如何保持苗条身材的建议。
slender written thin in an attractive and graceful way – used especially about parts of the body, and used especially about women 苗条的〔尤指身体部位，尤用于女性〕
her long, slender legs
她修长的双腿
She is slender, with very fair hair.
她身材苗条，一头金发。
lean thin and looking healthy and fit 瘦而健康的
his lean body
他精瘦的身体
He was lean and looked like a runner.
他精瘦精瘦的，看上去像个赛跑选手。
skinny very thin in a way that is not attractive 皮包骨的
a skinny teenager
一个瘦骨嶙峋的少年
Your arms are so skinny!
你的胳膊瘦得都皮包骨了！
slight written thin and delicate 纤弱的
a small, slight girl with big eyes
一个有着大眼睛和纤巧身材的矮个子女孩
scrawny /ˈskrɔːni $ ˈskrɒː-/ very thin, small, and weak-looking 瘦弱的
a scrawny kid in blue jeans
一个穿蓝色牛仔裤的瘦弱小孩
underweight below the usual weight for someone of your height, and therefore too thin 体重不足的，偏瘦的
He had no appetite and remained underweight.
他没有胃口，身体依然偏瘦。
gaunt /ɡɔːnt $ ɡɒːnt/ written very thin and pale, especially because of illness or continued worry 〔尤因生病或持续担心〕消瘦憔悴的
He looked gaunt and had not shaved for days.
他看上去消瘦憔悴，几天没刮胡子了。
emaciated /ɪˈmeɪʃieɪtəd, -si-/ written extremely thin and weak, because you are ill or not getting enough to eat 〔因生病或食不果腹〕极为瘦弱的
The tents were filled with emaciated refugees.
帐篷里挤满了瘦弱不堪的难民。
skeletal written used about someone who is so thin that you can see the shape of their bones 瘦骨嶙峋的
The soldiers were shocked by the skeletal figures of the camp’s prisoners.
士兵们看到集中营囚犯那瘦骨嶙峋的身形都感到震惊。
anorexic used about someone who is extremely thin because they have a mental illness that makes them stop eating 〔因患厌食症〕极度消瘦的
Her daughter is anorexic.
她女儿瘦极了。
anorexic teenagers
极瘦的少年
object/material 物品/材料
thin not wide 薄的
a thin slice of cake
薄薄一片蛋糕
a thin layer of ice
一层薄冰
The gold was very thin.
金层很薄。
slim thin, especially in a way that looks attractive 纤细的,纤薄的
a slim volume of poetry
薄薄一本诗集
a slim mobile phone
机身纤薄的手机
a slim wooden box
狭长的木盒
slender written tall or long and thin, in a way that looks attractive, but is often not very strong 细长的〔常不太牢固〕
the slender columns that supported the roof
支撑屋顶的细长柱子
The spider was hanging by a slender thread.
蜘蛛悬在一根细长的线上。
paper-thin/wafer-thin extremely thin, like paper 薄如纸片的/极薄的
The walls of the apartment were paper-thin.
公寓墙体薄如纸片。
wafer-thin slices of pastry
极薄的一块油酥点心
nThe petals are paper-thin.
Examples from the Corpus
thin• I wish my legs were thinner.• In fact, one of the features that sets the goat-antelopes apart from their relatives is the relatively thin and fragile skull.• She looked pale, thin, and unhealthy.• He's tall and thin and wears glasses.• Her thick brown cotton stockings were bunched around her thin ankles, her legs were blue.• a wire as thin as a human hair• I'm afraid the evidence is really too thin as it stands. We need to investigate further.• For these crepes you will need a fairly thin batter, so do not add too much flour.• It was a chilly night, and he had only a thin blanket for warmth.• a thin blue line• Martin wore a thin cotton shirt under his sweater.• How do you get your sugar cookies so thin, Dagmar?• That's a pretty thin excuse - he could have gotten there if he'd really wanted to.• "What do you want?" gasped Helen in a thin, frightened voice.• I was disappointed with your history essay, it seemed a little thin in terms of content.• If this showed their somewhat thin knowledge of my country, the compliment was returned.• The lake was covered with a thin layer of ice.• In her pocket was a thin leather wallet containing six ten dollar bills.• It is a cage, suspended from the ceiling by the thinnest of threads.• His hair's getting thin on top.• Both of them noticed with shock how alarmingly thin she was, frail to the point of vanishing.• a thin slice of bread• My curtains are too thin to keep the sun out.• At sixteen, I was still very thin, unattractive, and underdeveloped.• The air is so thin up here I can hardly breathe.• The layers of paint are built up by the application of a thin wash, staining the primed canvas.• Larry was tall and thin with dark brown hair and bright blue eyes.
paper/wafer thin• She and Justine developed a long distance friendship, cemented by immensely long letters on wafer thin paper.• If only I had a duck's back instead of wafer thin skin.• A wafer thin translucent something undulated through the air towards her, chuckling gently to itself in a liquid voice.• It was fashioned from dark green plastic, wafer thin, yet of considerable weight.
thin arms/legs/lips etc• She hurried them away from their anchorage and stripped them down her thin legs.• He kept his on, suspicious as he was; the shirt masked his thin arms and caved chest.• His dark skin glistens, his slanted eyes above his high cheekbones are cruel, his thin lips are determined.• Paler, shiny colours help thin lips look more full.• The men lay crumpled and motionless, open-mouthed, their thin legs tangled together.
thin2 ●●○ verb (thinned, thinning)  
1  CROWD[intransitiveI, transitiveT] (also thin out) to become fewer in number, especially when there were many before, or to remove people, plants, or things so that fewer remain （使）〔拥挤的人群、植物、物品等〕变稀少；散去
2  [intransitiveI, transitiveT] to make something thinner or to become thinner （使）变薄；（使）变稀 OPP thicken
3  LIQUID[transitiveT] (also thin down) to make a liquid weaker by adding water or another liquid 〔掺水等〕使稀薄，使变淡
4  [intransitiveI] if someone’s hair is thinning, they have less hair than they used to 〔头发〕变稀疏，变稀少
5  thin the ranks LESSif something thins the ranks of a group of people, there are fewer of them as a result of it 减少人员
Examples from the Corpus
thin the ranks• But the sector suffered like chemicals and shipping from cyclical downturns in world demand which thinned the ranks.• Higher prices have thinned the ranks of prospective home owners.
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thin• Zhao's hair has thinned and turned gray.• Fermanagh the Carboniferous sediments thin northwards against the land mass from which they were derived.• The small group of protesters thinned out by midnight.• With luck, the press might have thinned out.• Add a little oil to thin the mixture.• They went through the fields to thin the sugar beets.• Generally there are too many bodies on stage and it may be your job to thin them out.
thin3 adverbadv  
THIN PERSONthinly. Many teachers think this is not correct English 薄薄地；细细地〔许多教师认为这种用法不正确〕
 Don’t cut the bread so thin.
别把面包切得这么薄。
Examples from the Corpus
thin• Core and slice apples very, very thin.
From Longman Business Dictionary
thinthin /θɪn/ adjectiveadj journalism
if trading on a financial market is thin, there is not much activity
Trade was thin in the currency markets yesterday, heading into a Japanese long weekend.
—thinly adverbadv
The shares were thinly traded.
Origin thin1
Old English thynne
thin1 adjectiveadj
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