英:['ru:mɪ]
美:['rumɪ]
英:['ru:mɪ]
美:['rumɪ]
比较级:rheumier
最高级:rheumiest
词根:rheum
adj.rheumatic 风湿病的;风湿病引起的
n.rheumatic 风湿病;风湿病患者
rheum 感冒,鼻粘膜炎;发炎性分泌物
Adjective
1. moist, damp, wet (especially of air);
"the raw and theumy damp of night air"
2. of or pertaining to arthritis;
"my creaky old joints"
"rheumy with age and grief"
1590年代,“风湿的,充满粘液的,受粘液影响的”,来自 rheum 和 -y(2)。
Middle English reume, from Anglo-French, from Latin rheuma, from Greek, literally, flow, flux, from rhein to flow — more at stream
The first known use of rheum was in the 14th century
rhinocerosnoun
any of various large plant-eating mammals of Africa and Asia that are related to the horse and have a thick skin with little hair, three toes on each foot, and one or two heavy upright horns on the snout
rhinocerosnoun
any of various large plant-eating mammals of Africa and Asia that are related to the horse and have a thick skin with little hair, three toes on each foot, and one or two heavy upright horns on the snout
rhinonoun
rhinoceros
rhinestonenoun
a colorless imitation diamond of high luster made usually of glass or paste
rheumnoun
a watery discharge from the mucous membranes especially of the eyes or nose
1 Virginia’s Lost History “LET me get up out of here,” said Captain Red, rheumy, slow moving, a snowy thatch belying the nickname of his youth.
2 “Those hazel eyes may have become a shade rheumy, but they could still flash at the merest hint of weakness or a perceived character defect. Testing you, always probing, looking for vulnerable areas.”
3 So the only animal in Or You Could Kiss Me, their new show for the National, is a rheumy old dog.
4 “God is merciful, if you are not,” I say, looking directly into his rheumy eyes.
5 The preacher stands there, his rheumy brown eyes locked on Katherine's bosom and a smile that borders on indecent on his thin, pink lips.
6 The huge folding doors were flung back, and the sight of so much food kindled a gleam in Sir Jeremy's rheumy eyes and waked a cackle from his lean throat.
7 He gazed at the officer through thick glasses that magnified rheumy brown eyes and beamed.
8 I slog the three blocks to the drugstore in a toxic haze of germs, and halfway there my rheumy eyes focus on a dress in a shop window.
9 “Who are you?” he might demand, staring with those rheumy, impenetrable eyes.
10 The blue eyes seemed to turn rheumy with regret: When a 2016 video interview promoting the Showtime series “The Affair” revealed a Fraser who seemed dejected and defeated, it went viral.
11 He was a German Jewish refugee, a camp survivor, a prematurely aged, sweet-tempered man with rheumy eyes, who wore a double-breasted blue serge jacket, unbuttoned, and baggy brown pants.
12 The woman who owned a poodle was usually small, plump, white, soiled and with rheumy eyes just like a poodle.
13 He has a rheumy patriarch’s fascination with dynasties.
14 Hodgkin’s hair is silver and short, his eyes rheumy and penetrating.
15 Old clocks whirred and gasped, clearing their rheumy throats before striking the hour.
16 Clover was an old stout mare now, stiff in the joints and with a tendency to rheumy eyes.
17 Black skin as shiny as patent leather, rheumy eyes the color of spilled milk, tongue an obscenely wriggling raw jumbo hot dog, and the teeth — oh, what teeth he has.
18 Billy-the-Gawk straightened his crooked back, opened wide his rheumy eyes, pursed up his wizened cheeks, and emitted a low, long whistle.
19 In a Zoom meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous last week, a waifish figure with rheumy eyes assumed the center of the computer screen.
20 The faces in “Funny Pages” are critical to the film’s gestalt, its philosophy and aesthetic, and offer an astonishment of humanity in all its sweaty, wrinkly, frizzy, rheumy, comb-over, tender glory.