英:[ˈpi:ki]
美:[ˈpiːki]
英:[ˈpi:ki]
美:[ˈpiːki]
比较级:peakier
最高级:peakiest
词根:peak
adj.peak 最高的;最大值的
peaked 尖的;消瘦的;有遮檐的
n.peak 山峰;最高点;顶点;帽舌
v.peaked 到达高点,消瘦,竖起(peak的过去式和过去分词形式)
vi.peak 消瘦;到达最高点;变憔悴
vt.peak 使达到最高点;使竖起
Adjective
1. having or as if having especially high-pitched spots;
"absence of peaky highs and beefed-up bass"
The first known use of peaky was in 1821
1 At the other side of this road were three large detached deep-bodied villas with peaky eaves and small wooden balconies, each standing in its own little square of grass and of flowers.
2 They tend to be looking a bit peaky and green about the gills.
他们看上去有点憔悴,被吓得脸色苍白。
3 He's a peaky little chap; it comes of being a poet, I think.
4 The other, clad in a dirty russet suit with a long sweeping doublet, had a cunning, foxy face with keen, twinkling eyes and a peaky beard.
5 By the end the Barbarians looked pretty peaky too, but for healthier reasons.
6 Looked a bit peaky, it seemed to me.
7 Whisk the eggs and sugar to a really fluffy, white, peaky sabayon.
8 She was a small, frail creature, well over forty, I should say, with a pale, peaky face, and hair of a very light shade of chestnut.
9 The Colonel's face, seen in the full light, had lost the brown of health; it was thin and peaky, and still bore signs of privation.
10 Many are but 50 feet in height, and there are regular, peaky, and prettily-shaped little mountain ranges, the summits of which overtop the plain but five to ten yards.
11 It's better than the iPhone 4, which starts looking peaky after a day of heavy use.
12 "Your voice sounds peaky; you have been doing too much."
13 Amy really did think Mr. Wingfield was right, and had better taste than the people who thought her a poor washy, peaky thing, as she had more than once heard herself called.
14 You all right? You look a bit peaky.
15 Before us, seaward, rose a rampart against the sky, like the turreted and embattled wall of a huge eastern city, built of loose stones piled high, and divided by great peaky rocks.
16 One minute she was looking a bit peaky.
17 He drew a contrast between the peaky, timorous Jewish boys of the Russian pale and the lusty Jewish youngsters astride half-tamed horses on the ranche.
18 I'll tell you what it is, Mr. Northey," madam continued, "she takes you in with her pale, peaky face and her round eyes.
19 She's been looking a little peaky the last week or two.
20 He raised his meagre figure to its full height, and his pale peaky face assumed a dignity which the pulpit had never known.
1 苍白
green pale ghastly pasty colourless bloodless ashen pallid washy cadaverous white as a sheet white chalky grey doughy paleness wan lunar lymphatic sickly lurid mealy anaemic Lily pallor ghostly waxen as white as a sheet
4 虚弱
limp-wristed low weak shaky rundown feeble wobbly prostrate banal puny rickety decrepit infirm weedy bloodless effete namby-pamby asthenic impuissant asthenia weakness frailty debility debilitate emaciate enfeeble
5 虚弱的
limp-wristed low weak shaky rundown feeble wobbly prostrate banal puny rickety decrepit infirm weedy bloodless effete namby-pamby asthenic impuissant
6 憔悴
wearish wasted gaunt emaciated haggard peaked cadaverous chapfallen toilworn emaciation languishment peak consume fade pine wilt languish emaciate pine away drawn peak and pine worn wan strained
7 苍白的
pale ghastly pasty colourless bloodless ashen pallid washy cadaverous white as a sheet white green chalky grey doughy wan lunar lymphatic sickly lurid mealy anaemic Lily ghostly waxen as white as a sheet drawn peaked watery wintry washed-out
8 消瘦的
10 有峰的
11 尖
cuspidate cuspidal acute pike pointed picked acuminate cuspate end tip cap toe neb taper end leaf
14 憔悴的
wearish wasted gaunt emaciated haggard peaked cadaverous chapfallen toilworn drawn skeletal starveling worn wan strained
15 瘦弱的