puny

1 ‘What’s the point of being gods if you have to rely on puny mortals to do your bidding?’

2 The skyscraper dwarfs the surrounding buildings. By comparison to it, they seem puny.

这摩天大楼使周围的建筑物相形见拙, 比较之下它们显得微不足道.

3 The carmaker's output of 108,000 vehicles in 2007 is puny by global standards—about half what Toyota builds in a week.

这家汽车制造商2007年产量是180,000辆，以国际标准来看，这是微不足道的——大约相当于丰田公司周产量的一半。

4 These puny trees were growing right out of little patches of dirt in the middle of concrete.

5 The shock was so enormous that I found my own puny fear of exposure melting into a much larger darker terror that seemed to have no boundaries.

6 After all, I only had puny softskin muscles now to power my wings, while he had the muscles of a dragons body.

7 I am the lord of all creatures of the darkness, puny Iapetus.

8 What did the puny friendship of Jan and Max mean in the face of a million men like Buckley?

9 The deputy examined the puny little chess book as if he was expecting to find a false compartment and a skeleton key.

10 You are a mere puny mortal , and I care nothing for you.

玩家在游戏中是渺小的, 我漠不关心.

11 So he's not the puny little worm you'd taken him for.

12 To Steinberg, this shows clearly that risk-taking rises not from puny thinking but from a higher regard for reward.

对斯坦伯格而言，这清楚地表明，冒险增加并非由于考虑不周而是由于回报增加。

13 Writing a story was a hopeless, puny enterprise when such powerful and chaotic forces were turning about her, and when all day long successive events had absorbed or transformed what had gone before.

14 The Bay Area and California both added jobs in April, but the gains were puny and sketch a picture of an ominously feeble employment market, a new report shows.

15 Giant sequoias are unimpressed by your puny human lifespan.

与巨型红杉800至1300年的生命跨度相比，人的寿命极其微不足道。

16 Why didn’t Chinese ships proceed around Africa’s southern cape westward and colonize Europe, before Vasco da Gama’s own three puny ships rounded the Cape of Good Hope eastward and launched Europe’s colonization of East Asia?

17 Jason tried to grasp him in both arms, trying to prison the puny fury of him.

18 “They slowed us down a bit,” Chiron admitted, “but I think they’re intended mostly to keep mortals out. Kronos doesn’t want puny humans getting in the way of his great victory.”

19 Ah, no thanks.That puny Celtic whine.You people love your alcohol.

20 “And if my friend here”—Aru jerked her chin in Mini’s direction, who merely adjusted her sunglasses—“approves, then I’ll accept your measly and puny offerings.”

1 不起眼

inconspicuous dinky not much to look at

2 瘦弱

poor hungry lank macerate

3 虚弱

marantic weak tender wan delicate pale faint fragile shaky feeble weakly impotent rickety infirm valetudinarian white-livered impuissant impotently frailly weakliness weakness fragility impotence infirmity frailty prostration enervation frailness impuissance frail sickly unsound anaemic effete dicky limp-wristed low rundown wobbly prostrate banal decrepit weedy bloodless peaky namby-pamby asthenic asthenia debility debilitate emaciate enfeeble

4 可怜

little sorry appealing miserable pathetic wretched pitiful pitiable piteous poor pity

5 微弱

small light slim lunar slender feeble sickly thready faintish piano feebly tenuity

6 虚弱的

marantic weak tender wan delicate pale faint fragile shaky feeble weakly impotent rickety infirm valetudinarian white-livered impuissant frail sickly unsound anaemic effete dicky limp-wristed low rundown wobbly prostrate banal decrepit weedy bloodless peaky namby-pamby asthenic

7 短小

cutty gnomish smallness scraggly puniness

8 小型的

small compact miniature small-scale lilliputian minikin vest-pocket mini- baby

9 次要

side secondary subsidiary fringe petty petite offbeat petit one-horse scrabbly puniness second-drawer off occasional lesser sub indirect peripheral incidental small-time small-fry side-bar

10 不起眼的

inconspicuous dinky

11 短小的

cutty gnomish scraggly

12 可怜的

poor sorry miserable wretched pitiful pitiable piteous little appealing pathetic

13 微弱的

slender thready small weak mild WAN faint dim feeble tenuous soppy subaqueous light slim lunar sickly faintish piano

14 小型

small compact miniature small-scale lilliputian minikin vest-pocket mini- baby midget in a small way

15 差的

short poor weak paltry

16 瘦弱的

poor hungry lank

17 细微

minuscular slight finely subtly imperceptibly infinitesimally hair fineness

18 次要的

second minor peripheral accidental incidental circumstantial small-time sub- by- side secondary subsidiary fringe petty petite offbeat petit one-horse scrabbly second-drawer off occasional lesser sub indirect small-fry side-bar

19 微不足道的

desipient pygmaean piss-ass light minute slight petty trivial negligible shabby paltry miniscule measly trifling dinky two-bit pelting nugatory pimping halfpenny piffling inappreciable twopenny-halfpenny outside marginal nominal insignificant nickel-and-dime piddling little fractional inconsequential niggling small-bore small mere silly pissy poxy derisory no-account pettifogging

20 微不足道

desipient pygmaean piss-ass light minute slight petty trivial negligible shabby paltry miniscule measly trifling dinky two-bit pelting nugatory pimping halfpenny piffling inappreciable insignificancy trivialize twopenny-halfpenny outside marginal nominal insignificant nickel-and-dime piddling little insignificance fractional inconsequential niggling small-bore least triviality no nothing to speak of no to speak of

21 未充分发展的

simple rudimentary unformed inchoate

22 孱弱

incapacity

23 差

short poor weak paltry badly to bad

24 弱

thin lenis

25 发育不良的

scrubby

26 弱小

dwarf puniness

27 弱小的

weak

28 不足道的

twopenny-halfpenny poor petty vain worthless vile futile pygmy trifling valueless two-bit threepenny piddling waff two-by-four no-account simple slight superficial shitty fiddling small-time

29 弱的

thin lenis

30 细微的

minuscular slight

31 不足道

twopenny-halfpenny poor petty vain worthless vile futile pygmy trifling valueless two-bit threepenny piddling waff two-by-four insignificance no-account puniness

32 细小的

cramp insignificant fiddling peddling

33 瘦小的

weak slight elfin