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比较级:lanker
最高级:lankest
lankly (adv.), lankness (n.)
词根:lank
adj.lanky 瘦长的
n.lankiness 过分细长;又瘦又高
Adjective
1. long and thin and often limp;
"grown lank with fasting"
"lank mousy hair"
2. long and lean
古英语中的 hlanc 意为"松散空虚,瘦弱,松弛",源自原始日耳曼语的 *hlanka-,形成了意为"弯曲,转动"的词,可能源自 PIE 根词 *kleng- "弯曲,转动",并带有"灵活"的联想(比较德语中的 lenken "弯曲,转向"; 参见 flank (n.))。在中古英语中,"一些例子可能是 long 形容词,其中 g 的发音未发出" [中古英语手册]。关于头发,"直而平坦",始于1680年代。相关词: Lankness (1640年代)。
Middle English, from Old English hlanc; akin to Old High German hlanca loin
The first known use of lank was before the 12th century
lanthanumnoun
a white soft metallic element see element
lanternnoun
a usually portable light with a protective covering
projector
lanternnoun
a usually portable light with a protective covering
projector
lantananoun
any of a genus of tropical shrubs and herbs that have showy heads of small bright flowers
lanolinnoun
the fatty coating of sheep's wool especially when purified for use in ointments and cosmetics
lankyadjective
being tall, thin, and usually loose-jointed
a lanky teenager
lankyadjective
being tall, thin, and usually loose-jointed
a lanky teenager
lankyadjective
being tall, thin, and usually loose-jointed
a lanky teenager
lankadjective
not well filled out : thin
lank cattle
hanging straight and limp without spring or curl
lank hair
1 A photograph from his late middle years shows him as gaunt and sinister, like the villain in a Victorian melodrama, with long, lank hair and bulging eyes–a face to frighten babies.
2 Rachael’s proportions, he noticed once again, were odd; with her heavy mass of dark hair, her head seemed large, and because of her diminutive breasts, her body assumed a lank, almost childlike stance.
3 That will lank him in prison.
那事会弄得他蹲监狱.
4 The old man has lank hair.
那位老人头发稀疏。
5 The old man has lank hair.
那位老人头发稀疏。
6 Perhaps counterintuitively given that hot, humid weather can result in lank strands, oil-based emollients can help protect hair throughout summer, as well as facilitating the wet look that was seen on many spring runways.
7 Bobby pins held back her lank gray hair, and a cigarette dangled from her mouth.
8 We won’t reveal the circumstances of his appearance but needless to say the hair remains lank and black, the put-downs vicious and the banter with Hermione as lively as ever.
9 I've got lank work to do.
我有很多工作要做。
10 She looked at the lank figure leaning against the porch column, chewing a straw.
思嘉打量着这个靠在廊柱上、跟里嚼着干草的瘦个子。
11 You don't suddenly decide to grow lank, greasy hair and wear bad, ill-fitting clothes.
12 Gleeson had several entry points to his character: the long, lank mop of hair, the hangdog expression, the unique verbosely terse manner.
13 Mostly, with his lank black hair and wan complexion, he just looked deliciously evil.
14 She’s a stick figure with a curtain of lank hair, but she has grit, watchful eyes and friends who have dared her to bum a cigarette.
15 On a scarlet- draped platform an orator of the Inner Party, a small lean man with disproportionately long arms and a large, bald skull over which a few lank locks straggled, was haranguing the crowd.
16 Chapter Eleven’s previously lank hair was now leonine in back, while the front retreated.
17 The sunken cheeks were covered with a thin scattering of fuzz; the hair was lank and matted.
18 The children sat opposite the king, staring at his milky face and weak chin and lank, wet-looking hair.
19 The horse was lean and lank Misfortune seemed his lot He got into a drifted bank And we – we got upsot.
20 Lank grammar can both parse English and Chinese.
链接文法不仅可以用来分析英语句子,也可以用来分析汉语句子.
2 极妙的
3 大量
large full strong wide fat extensive vast substantial abundant plentiful lavish heavy-duty galore copious teeming bountiful profuse multitudinous aplenty way hard highly plenty heavily abundantly many much lot umpteen body bit size deal score host load bag mountain sea mass array bunch quantity mess wealth stack flood ton pile bucket surge abundance multitude legion rash heap myriad mound slew raft bushel plurality truckload profusion gob lashing plenitude scads oodles cartload wodge shedload million hundred billion trillion out the wazoo up the wazoo in leaps and bounds by a long way a whole lot a whole lot of in force quite a lot quite some like water in abundance quite a lot of in spades any amount of an ocean of by leaps and bounds no end of
4 很多的
6 细长的
rattailed fine lean slender shoestring spindly attenuated spidery stalky snakelike threadlike spindling wandy rat-tail flagelliform slight linear capillary elongate lanky reedy gracile svelte rattail slab-sided slimjim
14 很多
great awful legion galore innumerable plenty overmuch umpteen beaucoup dozen deal score mile bag bushel oodles like nobody's business a whole lot
15 大量的
long wealthy round serious Mass massive extensive vast liberal substantial flush infinite legion abundant prolific plentiful substantive heavy-duty galore bountiful fulsome aplenty billion gazillion power mess wall-to-wall a good deal up the wazoo a gogo large full strong wide fat lavish copious teeming profuse multitudinous
18 直的
19 皱缩的
20 软的
22 瘦
poor thin lean spare bony meager meagre slab-sided macerate mawger gaunt hidebound fatless thinly
23 极好的
dandy deadly peachy rare tasty perfect safe excellent super capital famous fantastic royal magic champion sick stunning brilliant crucial fabulous banner tremendous keen wizard superb neat swell magnificent sterling heavenly topping righteous standout splendid fab top-notch cracking nifty dreamy RAD ripper marvellous egregious smashing first-rate grouse goodly storming rattling banging ripping def fantabulous phat high-toned spiffing corking braw bonzer bang-up must-have A1 beezer super-duper whizzo shit-hot out of sight a whale of a
24 平直
25 瘦长得难看的
27 直
28 众多的
29 细长
rattailed fine lean slender shoestring spindly attenuated spidery stalky snakelike threadlike spindling wandy rat-tail stalkness flagelliform slight linear capillary elongate lanky reedy gracile svelte rattail slab-sided slimjim slightly slenderize
30 长的
31 长