stocky
英 ['stɒkɪ]
美 ['stɑki]
英語の語源
- stocky (adj.)
- c. 1400, "made of wood," from stock (n.1). Of plants, "of stout and sturdy growth" (not weedy) it is recorded from 1620s. Of persons, "thick-set," 1670s, suggestive of tree trunks, but compare also stock in sense of "trunk of the human body" (late 14c.).
例文
- 1. He was short and stocky ，and had a thick neck.
- 彼は背が低く丈夫で、首が太い。
- 2.He is stocky though not chubby.
- 彼はがっしりしているが、太らない。
- 3.He always feels ashamed for his short， stocky figure.
- 彼の背の低い体形はいつも彼を恥じさせている。
- 4.A stocky figure，fashionably dressed in light grey，turned and said easily.
- 薄いグレーのモダンな服を着た小太りが体を回し、さりげなく言った。
- 5.Joe Pationi 's stocky figure was moving constantly,instructing and exhorting.
- ジョー?ペトロニーの丈夫な姿は絶えず歩き回り、指示を出して、また彼らのために腹ごしらえをした。
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