Meager *** (缺乏 消瘦 顏色 貧窮 動物 單字大集合)

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–adjective 

1. deficient in quantity or quality; lacking fullness or richness; scanty; inadequate: 



a meager [salary]

meager [fare]

a meager [harvest]  



2. having little flesh; lean; thin: a body meager with [hunger]. 

3. maigre. (無肉的,素食的)



–adjective 

containing neither flesh nor its juices, as food permissible on days of religious abstinence.【宗】禁食



Also, especially British, meagre.



—Synonyms 

1. See scanty. 2. gaunt (憔悴的,荒涼的), spare, skinny.



Scanty, meager, sparse refer to insufficiency or deficiency in quantity, number, etc. 



Scanty denotes smallness or insufficiency of quantity, number, supply, etc.: a scanty supply of [food]. 



Meager indicates that something is poor, stinted, or inadequate: meager [fare]; a meager [income]. 



Sparse applies particularly to that which grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, often over a wide area: 



sparse [vegetation] 

a sparse [population].





　

Far separated from the sparse, [atmospheric] creation 



that makes up much of Mignola's comics, Hellboy II dares to cram as much creativity into every frame as possible, leaving no doubt that this big-screen incarnation is its own valid animal -- and one that's well worth the price of [admission].



From the exquisite production design to the top-notch creature effects, 



the film is eye candy of the highest order. 



Boasting the largest set of in-camera monster effects this side of Nightbreed, and featuring some of the most striking character conceptions of its time, Del Toro has crafted a uniquely beautiful creation that 



[dazzles] 

the [eye] as well as the [heart]. 



Add in its sharp comic instincts and wham-bam action and one gets a comic-book film that strives to deliver a rousing experience for audiences of all ages -- and really, 



who could ask for more than that?





　　

When Helene’s daughter is kidnapped, they scour Dorchester watering holes, hassle the drug dealers, and get heavily embroiled with some angry Boston police officers who are obsessed with protecting children.

 

The movie turns into a complicated and emotional thriller, but Casey Affleck doesn’t overplay his hand. He’s lean, with a pale, unmarked face that suggests meagre [experience] of the world, and at first he looks too young for the part. 





　

It was miserable timing given the credit crunch and the big squeeze on lenders and financiers, whose flood of liquidity had enabled [the rush of product] in the first place. 



Looking at the meager [return] on investment, 



a lot of backers have thrown in the towel or altered their strategies.



crunch

艱難局面;財政困難;短缺

【口】關鍵時刻;危機









Beleaguer

Deluge



1. 缺乏

dearth

a dearth of [food]

sparse 

grows thinly or is thinly strewn or sown, over a wide area: 

sparse [vegetation], a sparse [population]



scrimmage

Football. a gathering of the offensive team in a close circle or line behind the [line] of scrimmage for instructions, signals

Are your parents coming down for your scrimmage on Saturday?

The few high-energy set pieces are credible and pointed, including two scrimmages on the b-ball [court], and one exhilarating, then tense ensemble [slamdance] to a track by angst-ridden rap-metalheads Korn.

scrimp

He spends most of his money on clothes, and scrimps [on] food. 

skimp

a movie that looks like it was skimping [on] electricity.

skim

She skimmed the soup to remove most of the [fat].

The movie's plot is as [lighthearted] as a Scott Fitzgerald short story, all about young people skimming the [surface] of the pond of life, [flitting] here and there, making small talk and flirting.

scamp

If you don't [like] the assignments, just don't do them, but don't scamp them.





2. 消瘦

liposuction

svelte

slinky

lanky

The movie seems unwilling to look at his face very clearly; it is concealed by lanky [hair] and a hooded coat

Hiding behind lank long [hair], seeming even younger than his slim years 

Lanky, [open]-faced Vincent Kartheiser (star of Larry Clark's "Another Day in Paradise") is Mason Mullich, a [sullen], small-town teen whose suicidal fantasies play out to the moody strains of Sparklehorse's "It's a Wonderful Life."

gangling 

tall & lanky

cf. gangrene

gangly

Because Thompson is an endearingly [gangly], gallant [presence]—he has the wistful look of a hungry pup just inches shy of a steak— his mortification is ours.

And this kind of gangly youth|over there is my nephew Lon.



scrawny

Scrawny old men, little girls with sunken eyes, naked boys covered in bruises.

Kid stuff. She was 12, brunette, scrawny, homely.

gaunt

a gaunt, windswept [landscape]

He is so [gaunt], his face so [hollow], he looks nothing like the actor we're familiar with.

The [gaunt] yet elegant Jeremy Irons is adept at portraying Dr. Stephen Fleming,

Jeremy Irons, [gaunt] and aesthetic, brings no fleshy pleasure to the role. 

Though no one should hazard a guess on his acting future from this outing alone his [gauntly] transsexual appearance is so right for the role that is will be difficult to disassociate him from it in the future.



emaciate [i-mey-shee-eyt]

vacillate [vas-uh-leyt]

oscillate [os-uh-leyt]



wan 

pallor lurid sanguine

anemic 

Creaks along like an anemic [snail]

but it's mortally anaemic in the story, character and thematic departments.



haggard 

the haggard [faces] of the [tired] troops.  

haggard [eyes] 

haggle 

bargain in a petty, quibbling, and often contentious manner

mangle in cutting

Convulsion

monger 

huckster 

Sham





。肥胖

。財富

。貧窮 Opulent



4. 動植物 

Walrus



2.5 顏色

Pallor

















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