• adj. 苗條的；修長的；微小的；差的
• vt. 使…體重減輕；使…苗條
• vi. 減輕體重；變細
• n. (Slim)人名；(阿拉伯)薩利姆；(英、西)斯利姆

來自輔音叢 sl-,黏的，滑的，光滑的。引申比喻義瘦弱的，苗條的，纖細的，以及動詞詞義 使苗條，減肥。

slim

slim: [17] Slim is now quite an upbeat word, but that is a comparatively new departure, for historically it has been neutral if not downright derogatory. It was borrowed from Dutch slim ‘small, inferior’, which went back via Middle Dutch slim ‘slanting, bad’ to a prehistoric Germanic *slimbaz ‘oblique, crooked’ (source also of German schlimm ‘bad’). It may be distantly related to Latvian slīps ‘crooked, steep’.

slim (adj.)

1650s, "thin, slight, slender," from Dutch slim "bad, sly, clever," from Middle Dutch slim "bad, crooked," from Proto-Germanic *slembaz "oblique, crooked" (cognates: Middle High German slimp "slanting, awry," German schlimm "bad, cunning, unwell"). In English 17c. also sometimes with a sense "sly, cunning, crafty." Related: Slimly; slimness. With obsolete extended adjectival forms Slimsy "flimsy, unsubstantial" (1845); slimikin "small and slender" (1745). Slim Jim attested from 1887 in sense of "very thin person;" from 1902 as a type of slender cigar; from 1975 as a brand of meat snack.

slim (v.)

1808, "to scamp one's work, do carelessly or superficially," from slim (adj.). Meaning "to make slim" (a garment, etc.) is from 1862; meaning "reduce (one's) weight" is from 1930. Related: Slimmed; slimming.

1. The chances of a planet surviving a supernova always looked terribly slim.

行星躲過超新星爆發的幾率總是十分渺茫。

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2. She retains her slim figure and is free of wrinkles.

她保持著苗條的身材，臉上也沒有皺紋。

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3. The red dress had slim black piping around the neck.

這條紅裙的領口有細細的黑色滾邊。

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4. He was a slim, solemn, darkly handsome young man.

他是個身材修長、表情莊重、皮膚黝黑的帥小伙。

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5. He published only three slim volumes of verse in his short life.

在他短暫的一生里，他只出版過3卷薄薄的詩集。

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