slender

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slen·der /ˈslendə $ -ər/ adjectiveadj

1 THIN PERSONTHIN OBJECT OR MATERIALthin in an attractive or graceful way 修長的；苗條的；纖細的 SYN slim

She is slender and stylish.

她身材修長，穿着時髦。

Laura’s tall, slender figure

勞拉高挑的身材

slender legs/arms/fingers etc 修長的腿/纖長的手臂/纖細的手指等

► see thesaurus at thin →4 See picture of 見圖 THIN 1

2 LITTLE/NOT MUCHsmall or very limited in amount or size 微小的；微薄的；不足的 SYN slim

The company only has a slender hope of survival.

這家公司維持下去的希望很渺茫。

The Republicans won the election by a slender majority.

共和黨以微弱多數赢得選舉。

We had to make the most of our rather slender resources.

我們必須充分利用我們相當緊缺的資源。

—slenderness noun [uncountableU]

Slender sounds rather literary. In everyday English, people usually say slim or thin: 聽上去比較有文學色彩。在日常英語中，人們一般說 slim 或 thin

I don’t know how she stays so slim.

我不知道她是怎麽把身材保持得如此苗條的。

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slender• The girl's body was curved and slender and my hands were straying to the ribbons on her bodice.• Mandy was slender and very fair with long golden hair.• Film stars and fashion models became more slender because their angles photographed better on screen and in magazines.• The path led through the slender birch trees.• Her slender body was untidily bundled up in a big leathery jacket and she was wearing long, shiny red boots.• The pictures are held in place by three slender brass rods.• She was beautiful, too: tall and slender, effortlessly and unselfconsciously elegant, even in her muddy farm clothes.• She had long, slender expressive hands, like a concert pianist.• The Democrats had only a slender majority in Congress.• The tall, slender man and his goofy wife had been guests in the family compound.• Clare could see more rusty chain around the slender, peeling, silver trunk of a nearby birch tree.• The third quarter's slender profit was still an improvement on previous results.• A spider was hanging from a slender thread.• It has a slender torpedo-shaped body with slightly elongated finnage.• slender white candles• Gabriel was a tall slender young man with a light brown moustache.

slender legs/arms/fingers etc• She ticks them off, one by one, on her long slender fingers.• She wore a pale pink dress that swirled around slender legs and her hair was caught back with a matching headband.• The long slender arms are flexible, unlike the starfish shown previously.• She returned to the letter in her hand, turning it over in her slender fingers before opening it.• Lissa's slender fingers curled into fists at her sides.• His hands held her slender arms in a grip that hurt, and his mouth was only inches away from her own.• Long, slender legs showed beneath the swirling pleats of a school skirt.• Experts said its long, slender legs suggest it was a fast runner.

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