| 词组 | fat |
| 释义 | fat The following words can all be used to describe someone who has a lot of flesh on their body: beefy, big, broad, bulky, buxom, chubby, chunky, corpulent, cuddly, dumpy, fat, flabby, fleshy, gross, heavy, obese, overweight, plump, podgy, portly, pudgy, solid, squat, stocky, stout, thick-set, tubby, well-built Big, broad, bulky, chunky, corpulent, fleshy, heavy, plump, stocky, stout, and thick-set are fairly neutral words. Stout prosperous men converged on the hotel. ...the portrait of a plump, dark girl, the Colonel's daughter. You use big to describe someone who is tall and has quite a lot of flesh. Zabeth was a big woman with a dark complexion. You use stocky to describe someone who is fairly short and has quite a lot of flesh. His friend was a stocky, bald man in his late forties. Beefy, buxom, chubby, cuddly, portly, solid, tubby, and well-built are words that you use when you like the person you are describing and think their shape is quite attractive. Beefy, cuddly, and tubby are used in conversation. His relatives were all solid, well-built people with dark or gray curly hair. Buxom is used only to describe women. ...the buxom ladies in Rubens' paintings. Chubby is used mainly of babies and children. Portly is used mainly of people who are middle-aged and rather dignified. She had grown into a chubby attractive child, with a mop of auburn curls. ...a portly gentleman in his late fifties. Dumpy, fat, flabby, gross, obese, overweight, podgy, pudgy, and squat are considered impolite and should not be used when speaking to the person you are describing, or to someone who knows and likes them. He'll get fat, the way he eats. He was a flabby, dough-faced, melancholy bachelor. Laura was hugely overweight. Obese and overweight are also used in more technical contexts. Really obese children tend to grow up into obese men and women. Overweight people run a slightly higher risk of cancer than people of average weight. People who are dumpy or squat are both short and fat. She was a little woman, and would probably, one day, be a dumpy one. ◊ WARNING Wide is used to describe things, not people. ...the wide staircase leading down to the hall. However, it can be used to describe parts of the body. Her features were coarse -- a wide forehead, a large nose, prominent cheekbones. She had a wide mouth that smiled a great deal. |
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