英语词汇“fine、drawn”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

fine-drawn

释义

ˈfine-ˈdrawn, ppl. a.
[f. fine a. and adv. + drawn, pa. pple. of draw.
When used attrib. it may have chief stress on first syll.]
Drawn fine; drawn out to extreme thinness, tenuity or subtlety. lit. and fig. Also in Racing and Athletics: Reduced in weight or fat by exercise and ‘training’.
1840D. P. Blaine Encycl. Rural Sports iv. vi. §1699. 484 He may go through a very long and severe run, and yet return comparatively but little finer drawn than when he went out.1869E. A. Parkes Pract. Hygiene (ed. 3) 387 Many men are ‘overtrained’, i.e., too fine-drawn from absorption of fat.1876T. S. Egan tr. Heine's Atta Troll, etc. 249 The fine-drawn aristocrats.1884R. Marryat in 19th Cent. May 840 Struggling against that fine-drawn network of circumstance.1887H. Smart Cleverly Won ii. 14 She was in training, and rather fine drawn to boot.1887Lowell Democr. 23 Fine-drawn analyses of the Rights of Man.1888Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk., That story is too fine-drawn—i.e. grossly exaggerated.

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