sinewy

英 [ˈsɪnjuːi]

美 [ˈsɪnjuːi]

adj.  肌肉发达的; 矫健的; 强健的

BNC.23066 / COCA.22610

牛津词典

adj.

• 肌肉发达的；矫健的；强健的
  having a thin body and strong muscles

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 肌肉发达的;精壮的;强健的
  Someone who issinewyhas a lean body with strong muscles.
  1. A short, sinewy young man...
     一名个子不高、肌肉发达的年轻男子
  2. When muscles are exercised often and properly, they keep the arms firm and sinewy.
     如果能经常正确地锻炼肌肉的话，双臂就会一直结实而强健。
  3. ...his long sinewy hands.
     他修长而强健的双手

英英释义

adj

• (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight
  1. a hefty athlete
  2. a muscular boxer
  3. powerful arms
  Synonym:brawnyheftymuscularpowerful
• (of meat) full of sinews
  Synonym:fibrousstringyunchewable
• consisting of tendons or resembling a tendon
  Synonym:tendinous

双语例句

• His hard sinewy body advertised his ruthlessness of purpose.
  他健硕的身体使他显得意志尤为坚强。
• Saw I your gait and saw I your sinewy limbs, clothed in blue, bearing.
  我看你迈开步伐看你威武之翼，身披盔甲，背起。
• When muscles are exercised often and properly, they keep the arms firm and sinewy.
  如果能经常正确地锻炼肌肉的话，双臂就会一直结实而强健。
• He had come up the hard way and embodied nothing in particular except the eternal toughness and sinewy fiber of the men who grew up beyond the mountains.
  他的成长道路十分艰难，在他身上，并没有什么特殊的气质，有的只是生活在山那边的人们所共有的那种坚忍不拔的毅力和强劲有力的肌肉。
• With its sinewy movements and singular lack of enthusiasm, it is remarkable that such a creature can feed itself at all, but looks can be deceiving!
  懒猴的行动强而有力而且异常地懒散，怪的是这样的生物可以养活自己，外表有时可是会骗人的。
• Here the sleek capitalist, and there the sinewy labourer; here the man of science, and here the shoe-black; here the poet, and here the water-rate collector;
  这里既有油嘴滑舌的资本家，又有身强力壮的雇佣工；这里既有科学家，又有擦鞋匠；这里既有诗人，又有收水费的人；
• Sharp corners and sinewy curves are interwoven for an apparently mysterious reason, something that has to do with the very history of the design.
  尖锐的交角和有力的弧线在图面上交错，乍看之下好像是出于某些不明的原因，其实这都是和西扎设计的过程有密切的联系。
• When I got back with the basin, the doctor had already ripped up the captain's sleeve, and exposed his great sinewy arm.
  我拿着脸盆回来时，大夫已经把船长的衣袖撸了上去，露出了他那肌肉发达的粗胳膊。
• From hip to hock long and sinewy, hock to pad short and strong.
  从臀部到飞节长而强壮有力，飞节到脚垫短而结实。
• It was a man who had scarcely reached his fortieth year, of tall stature, and of a thin but nervous and sinewy frame.
  这个人刚刚四十岁，身材很高，体格瘦削但强壮有力。