emaciated

英 [ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd]

美 [ɪˈmeɪsieɪtɪd]

adj.  (常指因疾病或缺少食物而)消瘦的，憔悴的，虚弱的
v.  使消瘦，使衰弱
emaciate的过去分词和过去式

过去式：emaciated　

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BNC.22385 / COCA.22698

牛津词典

adj.

• （常指因疾病或缺少食物而）消瘦的，憔悴的，虚弱的
  thin and weak, usually because of illness or lack of food

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （因疾病或饥饿而）消瘦的，骨瘦如柴的
  A person or animal that isemaciatedis extremely thin and weak because of illness or lack of food.
  1. ...horrific television pictures of emaciated prisoners.
     电视上骨瘦如柴的囚犯们的恐怖画面

英英释义

adj

• very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold
  1. emaciated bony hands
  2. a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys
  3. eyes were haggard and cavernous
  4. small pinched faces
  5. kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration
  Synonym:bonycadaverousgaunthaggardpinchedskeletalwasted

双语例句

• In stature she was tall, somewhat slender, and in her latter days, even emaciated.
  她身材修长，有点娇弱，临死前，竟是形销骨立。
• The animals had lost weight noticeably, becoming lean, almost emaciated.
  那些动物体重明显下降，瘦多了，简直是憔悴不堪。
• He was very emaciated after a long illness.
  久病之后，他看上去憔悴不堪。
• To make thin or emaciated.
  使变瘦或使瘦。
• Back and forth I walk next to the barbed wire fence, trying to keep my emaciated body warm.
  我不停地在倒刺铁丝围拦边来回走动着，想让自己瘦弱的身躯尽快暖和起来。
• She was emaciated and on the verge of death.
  当时的她如此憔悴并且徘徊在死亡的边缘。
• Sick devils also become emaciated, because the tumors interfere with eating, and many mothers lose their young.
  同时，因为肿瘤会干扰到袋獾的进食，所以生病的袋獾通常会变得非常衰弱，这个时候，雌性的成年袋獾就很容易丧失它们的幼仔。
• They fished in the big river, but somehow they were still very thin, emaciated, already old, some very crippled.
  他们在大河里捕鱼，但是不知怎地他们依然非常瘦弱、憔悴、已然衰老，其中一些人有严重的残疾。
• That was the medical ward on the fifth floor; my emaciated mother lay by the side of window.
  那是五楼内科病房，我的瘦弱的母亲躺在窗前。
• My father died of an accident resulted from drinking, leaving my emaciated mother and two younger brothers alone.
  父亲因酗酒死于一场事故，撇下了我瘦弱的母亲和两个弟弟。