喜樂美語
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    Slender usually describes a person's body as thin in a , attractive way — it's a gentler, more word than just saying 'thin' or 'skinny.' It can also describe thin objects in general, like a slender vase or a slender tree branch. And it's used for small amounts or narrow chances — a 'slender chance of winning' means the odds are very thin, barely enough to count on.

    苗條的、纖細的；（引申）微小的、渺茫的（機會）

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現， 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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原始詞典資料5 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Slendernoun

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    obsoleteslangA simple country gentleman.

    • […] the fantastic pilgrimages imposed on the "Cousin Slenders" of the world by their more facetious comrades […]
    • […] here also, behind the pillars, dark villains like Varney, and assassins like Iago, watched the simple country Slenders and the besotted Master Mathews, themselves grimly observed by honest water-carriers like Ben Jonson's Cob and Shakespeare's Adam.

slenderadj/ˈslɛndə/

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    Thin; slim.

    • A rod is a long slender pole used for angling.
    • She is very slender.
  • 2

    Meagre; deficient.

    • Being a person of slender means, he was unable to afford any luxuries.
    • The grounds for the conjecture are somewhat slender.
  • 3

    Palatalized.

slenderverb/ˈslɛndə/

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    To attenuate.

    • Rolled-up sleeves bared her strong forearms, which slendered down when they came to the wrists and hands.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。