slim: [17] Slim is now quite an upbeat word, but that is a comparatively new departure, for historically it has been neutral if not downright derogatory. It was borrowed from Dutch slim ‘small, inferior’, which went back via Middle Dutch slim ‘slanting, bad’ to a prehistoric Germanic *slimbaz ‘oblique, crooked’ (source also of German schlimm ‘bad’). It may be distantly related to Latvian slīps ‘crooked, steep’.
slim (adj.)
1650s, "thin, slight, slender," from Dutch slim "bad, sly, clever," from Middle Dutch slim "bad, crooked," from Proto-Germanic *slembaz "oblique, crooked" (cognates: Middle High German slimp "slanting, awry," German schlimm "bad, cunning, unwell"). In English 17c. also sometimes with a sense "sly, cunning, crafty." Related: Slimly; slimness. With obsolete extended adjectival forms Slimsy "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1845); slimikin "small and slender" (1745). Slim Jim attested from 1887 in sense of "very thin person;" from 1902 as a type of slender cigar; from 1975 as a brand of meat snack.
slim (v.)
1808, "to scamp one's work, do carelessly or superficially," from slim (adj.). Meaning "to make slim" (a garment, etc.) is from 1862; meaning "reduce (one's) weight" is from 1930. Related: Slimmed; slimming.
例文
1. The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim .
惑星が超新星爆発を回避する確率は常に非常に低い。
2.She retains her slim figure and is free of wrinkles.
彼女はほっそりした体つきを維持しており、顔にしわもない。
3.The red dress had slim black ping around the neck.
この赤いスカートの襟元には細い黒い縁取りがあります。
4.He was a slim ，solemn，darkly handsome young man.
彼は体つきがほっそりしていて、表情が荘重で、肌が真っ黒なイケメンだ。
5.He published only three slim volumes of verse in his short life.