wiry

Word family noun wire wireless wiring wirerwirinesswiredrawerwiredrawingwiremanwire nettingwirephotowirepullerwirepullingwirestripperwiretapperwiretappingwirewaywire woolwireworkwireworkerwireworkingwirewormadjective wiry wired wireless wiredrawnwirewoveverb wire wiredrawwiretapadverbwirily

wir·y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjectiveadj

1. THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles 〔人〕瘦而结实的

2. BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strong 〔毛发或草〕硬而结实的

Examples from the Corpus

wiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.• Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.

单词	wiry
释义	wiry Word family noun wire wireless wiring wirerwirinesswiredrawerwiredrawingwiremanwire nettingwirephotowirepullerwirepullingwirestripperwiretapperwiretappingwirewaywire woolwireworkwireworkerwireworkingwirewormadjective wiry wired wireless wiredrawnwirewoveverb wire wiredrawwiretapadverbwirily wir·y /ˈwaɪəri $ ˈwaɪri/ adjectiveadj 1. THIN PERSONSTRONG PERSONsomeone who is wiry is thin but has strong muscles 〔人〕瘦而结实的 2. BENDwiry hair or grass is stiff and strong 〔毛发或草〕硬而结实的 Examples from the Corpus wiry• Short, wiry, and with a dark and rather damaged complexion, he could have been a retired flyweight boxer.• The wiry Estrada flashes a partially capped smile as she gratefully recalls her first maquila job twisting electrical wires with latex-tipped fingers.• Richard Cory was a little man with wiry hair.• a wiry little Broadway show dancer from Puerto Rico• Father Vic was a wiry man in his late forties with a sharp nose and deep-set eyes.• Foresters passed us, small wiry men carrying machetes and, in one case, a crossbow for shooting birds.• About the only people who can move rapidly over such terrain are the tough and wiry park service hunters.• His father, Michael, was a short, wiry, quiet man, a sheet-metal worker.• A thin wiry woman, her name was Meg and not herself the full shilling.
随便看	like a fish out of water like a flash like a hot knife through butter like a (hot) knife through butter like a knife through butter like a lamb like a lamb to the slaughter like a morgue like a mother hen like a mother to like a mother to sb like a mother to somebody like an oven like anything like a rabbit caught in headlights like a rabbit/deer caught in headlights like a red rag to a bull like a shot like banging head against a brick wall like banging your head against a brick wall like bashing head against a brick wall like bashing your head against a brick wall like blazes like clockwork like crazy