各種“瘦”

　　1、Probably the most commonly used adjective to describe someone who has too little fat is thin. ‘Thin’ is often used in a negative way（thin表示“瘦”，但一般都用于消極含義、:

　　She’s very pretty, but she’s too thin. （她很漂亮，但太瘦了。、

　　2、Skinny, a slightly informal word, means very much the same（skinny表示“皮包骨頭的；很瘦的”，與thin相比瘦的程度稍大，而且多用于口語(yǔ)中、:

　　I don’t like his looks – he’s too skinny. （我不喜歡他的長(cháng)相——他太瘦了。、

　　3、Even thinner than ‘skinny’ is scrawny (also a slightly informal word). Someone who is scrawny is so thin that their bones stick out（scrawny表示“骨瘦如柴的；瘦骨嶙峋的”、:

　　He was a scrawny little kid. （這個(gè)小孩瘦得只剩皮包骨頭了。、

　　4、Gaunt, meanwhile, is used to describe a very thin face, sometimes a face that is thin because a person is ill（gaunt表示“憔悴的”，大多表示臉部瘦削，有時(shí)是因為生病所致、:

　　Her face was gaunt and grey. （她臉色灰暗憔悴。、

　　5、The adjective emaciated describes someone who is dangerously thin, usually through illness or extreme hunger. It describes the whole of the body（emaciated表示“瘦弱的；消瘦的”，這種“瘦”往往是因為生病或極度饑餓所致，而且存有身體健康危險、:

　　Some of the patients were quite emaciated. （一些病人非常瘦弱。、