ropy

1 He is tall with a ropy build, and at his station his affect turned solemn.

2 A fan switched on, sending the sacred flame that is the centerpiece of Act I flickering upward; the ropy vines of a primeval forest were pulled down taut with weights.

3 A tree was growing out between the stones on the north side of the Gatehouse Tower, its gnarled limbs festooned with ropy white blankets of ghostskin.

4 Only up close do you see that their eyes are wide open, and their skin is a porous weave of ropy ink lines, with rainbow color glinting through like light from behind.

5 The hot tub is a wide pan holding a steaming bath of lard and broth in which flaps of suadero burble happily alongside orange links of longaniza and ropy lengths of tripa, beef intestines.

6 Kebabs: Ask for “Aleppo,” a ropy wand of garlicky ground lamb that summons Syria with a sprinkling of lightly toasted crushed pistachios.

7 But the industry's record when it comes to making deals work is ropy.

但业内纪录显示，达成最后交易的工作是很一个胶着的过程。

8 She enrolled at Columbia University, and continued to work in a ropy, churning gestural style that took something from Cezanne and body-conscious abstractionists like Gorky and de Kooning.

9 Instead of repelling herself to a safe altitude, Holly crumpled onto the troll’s back, becoming instantly entangled in the ropy fur.

10 Calamari aren’t the usual thin threads of squid, but thick, ropy rectangles, piping hot and partnered with an Asian-inflected, peanut-tamarind-miso dipping sauce.

11 We crouched as we walked under densely matted hau trees, their ropy branches strewn across the trail; it was like having a meatball’s-eye view of spaghetti.

12 And yet I did wonder how such a ropy pothead has managed to maneuver that heavy instrument onto a dolly with no apparent sweat.

13 With ropy, woozy-looking figures of the Virgin and apostles leaning out of deep-cut space, the sculptures are more spooky than sublime.

14 Honda’s updates to the Fit’s suspension and steering for 2018 only slightly button down its ropy behavior.

15 The rub, which includes a small amount of sugar, seasons every bite, turning these ropy, fatty pieces of pork into something that goes down like candy.

16 In darkness, the thing with ropy what soaked his hand.

黑暗中，有什么粘稠的东西浸湿了他的手。

17 I feel the ropy hardness of his arms, the warmth of his slightly concave chest, as he holds me tight, tighter than anyone has ever held me.

18 The Fed only runs a risk of being left holding ropy assets if one of its counterparties goes bust.

美联储仅有的风险是，当它的某个借款者破产时，它还得持有着那些次级的资产。

19 And CIT's hopes of getting an exemption that would permit it to fund ropy assets at its non-bank parent company with deposits from its Utah-based bank appear to have been dashed.

CIT曾希望得到豁免，让其可以用位于美国犹他州的银行储蓄款，来资助其母公司(非银行业)的劣质资产，眼下，这个希望已破灭。

20 A hulking contradiction tucked under a stratum of ropy muscle, his Dennis is at once massive and passive, as big as a house and shy as a mouse.

1 黏黏的

sticky viscid smeary limy

2 坚牢

good sound strong fast firm tight substantial durable stiff stout trig pucka solidity fastness

3 质量差

bad thin low-grade not be up to much

4 黏的

tacky gooey gummy glutinous viscid

5 糟糕的

pretty dirty glorious crappy dreadful ill diabolical woeful crummy rank crap filthy appalling ratty damnable execrable cruddy mangy

6 差劲

sloppy naff pissant pitifully Mickey Mouse

7 黏

tacky gooey gummy glutinous viscid viscosity adhibit

8 黏稠的

stiff stringy grumous thick

9 状况不佳的

sad dodgy

10 有黏性的

gummous agglutinant sticky adhesive viscous smeary cloggy

11 有黏性

gummous agglutinant sticky adhesive viscous smeary cloggy toughly toughness

12 糟糕

pretty dirty glorious crappy dreadful ill diabolical woeful crummy shockingly dreadfully be on last legs rank crap grim filthy appalling ratty damnable execrable cruddy mangy poorly mal- dear mis-

13 情况差的

ropey

14 身体不好的

lousy poorly punk

15 黏稠

stiff stringy grumous thick

16 质量差的

tacky tatty wretched low-grade meagre bad thin

17 状况不佳

sad dodgy at a low ebb

18 成丝状黏质

rope

19 坚牢的

good sound strong fast firm tight substantial durable stiff stout trig pucka

20 差劲的

sloppy naff pissant useless dismal of a kind thudding third-rate Mickey Mouse pathetic lousy atrocious

21 体弱的

infirm weedy

22 能拉长的

tensible

23 体弱

infirm weedy infirmity

24 品质差的

bad GI sleazy tinny lamentable cut-rate

25 劣等的

lousy inferior low-grade snide

26 胶黏的

tough stiff sticky adhesive tacky sticking gummy viscous gelatinous jellied viscid

27 品质不好的

ropey