portly

英 [ˈpɔːtli]

美 [ˈpɔːrtli]

adj.  发福的; 发胖的

BNC.23027 / COCA.20110

牛津词典

adj.

• 发福的；发胖的
  rather fat

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （尤指男性）肥胖的，过胖的
  Aportlyperson, especially a man, is rather fat.
  1. ...a portly middle-aged man.
     一个胖胖的中年男人

英英释义

adj

• euphemisms for `fat'
  1. men are portly and women are stout
  Synonym:stout

双语例句

• My wandering eye alighted on a rather portly middle-aged man who was talking earnestly from the platform to a young lady at the next window but one to ours.
  我的目光四处游弋，移到一个中年人身上的时候眼前突然一亮，他体格颇为健壮，站在站台上，正同我们旁边第三个窗口里的一名年轻女郎亲切话别。
• Now recovered from their trauma, the portly pussies have been christened Roly Poly and Pudding in homage to their waistlines.
  现在这两只肥猫已经从重创中恢复过来。人们向它们的腰围致敬，给它们起名为圆滚滚和布丁。
• The lawyer was a tall and portly man with a short neck.
  这律师个子高高的，胖胖的，脖子很短。
• As for Meggie, she was incapable of equating Teresa's beaming, portly little mother with her own slender unsmiling mother.
  至于梅吉，她简直没法把特丽萨满脸笑容、矮矮胖胖的妈妈和她自己那面无笑容、颀长苗条的妈妈相提并论。
• The tunnels are now widened to accommodate portly Americans, and they are still a tight fit.
  如今，隧道已拓宽，好让大腹便便的美国游客得以通行，不过仍然感觉很紧。
• He wore a belted raincoat that accentuated his portly middle
  他穿着一件系腰带的雨衣，使他发福的腰身更加显眼。
• The portly gentlemen in the front rows began to feel that she was a delicious little morsel.
  前排的那些大腹便便的绅士们开始觉得她是一个可人的小东西。
• They saw me with my thin marathoner's body and wondered what it was that I admired in this portly paramour with the plus-size panties.
  他们看着我跟马拉松运动员一样瘦削的身段，讶异于我究竟看上这个穿加大尺码裤子的了不得的情人的哪一点。
• Carrie acquiesced, and that evening met the portly vance, an individual a few years younger than hurstwood, and who owed his seemingly comfortable matrimonial state much more to his money than to his good looks.
  嘉莉答应了，那天晚上见到了大腹便便的万斯。他比赫斯渥小几岁。他那看似美满的婚姻，多半是因为他有钱，而不是因为他有副好长相。
• She had come up the imposing steps, guarded by the large and portly doorman.
  她真的走上了由那个身强力壮的看门人守护的堂皇的台阶。