dinkies

[美]/'dɪŋkɪ/
[英]/'dɪŋki/
词频: 极高

释义

adj. 极小的;整洁的;微不足道的

短语搭配

dinky little car

迷你小汽车

dinky toy

小玩具

dinky apartment

小公寓

dinky boutique

小精品店

例句

the village boasts dinky shops and tea rooms.

这个村庄以整洁的店铺和茶室为豪。

I can't believe the dinky salaries they pay here.

我不相信他们这里只付这点薪水。

In the 1980s we got stuck in a language of acronyms, full of yuppies, dinkies and nimbyism.

在1980年代,我们对首字母缩略词感到纳闷儿,语言中充斥着雅皮士、 丁克族和邻避主义。

a dinky little car

一个小巧的小汽车

原声例句

It feels like a dinky version of an august academic institution.

感觉就像一个极小的庄严的学术学院。

来源: The Economist (Summary)

It's a dinky little convention where they sell collectibles and get sad Dlist celebrities to appear. Why?

就是卖点周边,找几个没名儿的四线明星去撑撑场子其实根本没什么人会去,你问这个干什么?

来源: The Big Bang Theory Season 10

Uranus has more than two dozen moons: five big ones and a bunch of dinkier ones.

五个大卫星和一堆小卫星。

来源: Crash Course Astronomy

At 2700 kilometers across it's smaller than our own Moon, but the rest of them are really dinky.

它直径有2700公里,比我们的月球还小,但其余的卫星都非常小。

来源: Crash Course Astronomy

So, we got to do a three-way dinky.

所以,我们必须做一个三向极小的。

来源: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Making matters worse, it's a dinky planet, only about 4900 kilometers in diameter, about a third the Earth's width.

更糟糕的是,这是一颗小型行星,直径只有4900千米,大约是地球直径的三分之一。

来源: Crash Course Astronomy

They're the little dinky ones that look like tiny smiles.

它们是那些看起来像微小微笑的微小电子。

来源: The Ocean At The End Of The Lane

After its giant size and its huge teeth, the thing we most notice about T. Rex are its dinky, little arms, these tiny, little arms that can't even reach its mouth.

除了庞大身型和巨大牙齿外,雷克斯霸王龙最能引起我们注意的是它短小的手臂,这些小小的胳膊连自己嘴巴都够不着。

来源: Discovery Channel: Battle of the Dinosaurs

BEHIND curlicues of cigarette smoke and with the gentle tones of wartime tunes wafting from a tape deck, Alf Biber is back on his feet after the looting of his dinky Tottenham barbershop (above).

在伦敦托特纳姆区一家小巧精致的男士理发店里烟圈缭绕,放音机里飘来战时音乐温柔的调子。埃尔夫? 拜博的这家小店在被打劫之后又重 回正轨(见上图)。

来源: The Economist - International

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