slim

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A type of cigarette substantially longer and thinner than normal cigarettes.
    — I only smoke slims.
  2. Alternative form of sling (“type of alcoholic mixed drink”) alt-of,alternative
    — Crump, having fortified himself with a bobstick of rum slim, moved cautiously among the crowds who bustled along Fleet Street.
  3. A potato farl. Ireland,regional
  4. AIDS, or the chronic wasting associated with its later stages. Africa,East,uncountable
    — As in the West, only about 50 per cent of patients with slim fully investigated will have a putative pathogen identified.
  5. Cocaine. slang,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To lose weight in order to achieve slimness. intransitive
  2. To make slimmer; to reduce in size. transitive
形容词 adj.
  1. Slender; thin.; Slender in an attractive way.
    — Movie stars are usually slim, attractive, and young.
  2. Slender; thin.; Designed to make the wearer appear slim. broadly
  3. Slender; thin.; Long and narrow.
  4. Slender; thin.; Of a reduced size, with the intent of being more efficient.
  5. Very small, tiny.
    — I'm afraid your chances are quite slim.
  6. Bad, of questionable quality; not strongly built, flimsy. Northern-England,Scotland
    — A slimly-shod lad;
  7. Sly, crafty. South-Africa,obsolete

词形变化

slimmer comparative slimmest superlative slims plural Slim alternative slims present,singular,third-person slimming participle,present slimmed participle,past slimmed past slims plural

词汇关系

衍生词
slim client slim-fit slim jim slimline slimly slimmish slimnastics slim pickings slimplectic slimsy slim-thick slimwear slimwing slimwood superslim ultraslim unslim slim down

词源

Borrowing from Low German or Dutch slim (“bad, sly, clever”), from Middle Dutch slim (“bad, crooked”), from Old Dutch *slimb, from Proto-West Germanic *slimb, from Proto-Germanic *slimbaz (“oblique, crooked”). The sense development would have been "slanting, cunning" (Dutch) > "insignificant, slight" and then "thin, graceful" in English, a shift that Liberman calls an "incredible amelioration" of word meaning.
The pejorative sense found in Low German and Dutch is also found preserved in the archaic English noun slim (“worthless or lazy person”), also comparable to the South African use of the adjective as "crafty, sly."
Compare Dutch slim (“smart, clever, crafty”), Middle High German slimp (“slanting, awry”), German schlimm (“bad”), West Frisian slim (“bad, dire”).
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