portly

英 [ˈpɔːtli]

美 [ˈpɔːrtli]

adj.  发福的; 发胖的

BNC.23027 / COCA.20110

牛津词典

adj.

• 发福的；发胖的
  rather fat

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED （尤指男性）肥胖的，过胖的
  Aportlyperson, especially a man, is rather fat.
  1. ...a portly middle-aged man.
     一个胖胖的中年男人

英英释义

adj

• euphemisms for `fat'
  1. men are portly and women are stout
  Synonym:stout

双语例句

• There are five people in the hall, one of them being a portly city councillor.
  大厅里有五个人，其中一位是肥胖的市议员。
• Carrie acquiesced, and that evening met the portly vance, an individual a few years younger than hurstwood, and who owed his seemingly comfortable matrimonial state much more to his money than to his good looks.
  嘉莉答应了，那天晚上见到了大腹便便的万斯。他比赫斯渥小几岁。他那看似美满的婚姻，多半是因为他有钱，而不是因为他有副好长相。
• My wandering eye alighted on a rather portly middle-aged man who was talking earnestly from the platform to a young lady at the next window but one to ours.
  我的目光四处游弋，移到一个中年人身上的时候眼前突然一亮，他体格颇为健壮，站在站台上，正同我们旁边第三个窗口里的一名年轻女郎亲切话别。
• Do you know the portly gentleman over there?
  你认识那边那位胖胖的先生吗？
• While he was thus engaged, a chariot drove to the door, and a portly gentleman in black, with a heavy watch-chain, alighted, and went in.
  当他正这样看着的时候，一辆轻便四轮马车来到门前，一位举止庄重、穿着黑衣服、挂着一条沉甸甸的表链子的先生下了马车，走进屋里去。
• As for Meggie, she was incapable of equating Teresa's beaming, portly little mother with her own slender unsmiling mother.
  至于梅吉，她简直没法把特丽萨满脸笑容、矮矮胖胖的妈妈和她自己那面无笑容、颀长苗条的妈妈相提并论。
• A couple of centuries ago, no American was better known in Europe than a portly old man who wore his spectacles on the end of this nose.
  200年前，在欧洲最负盛名的美国人莫过于一个眼镜架在鼻尖上的、胖胖的老人了。
• A fine, portly, middle-aged gentleman with iron-gray hair;
  一位文雅、肥胖、满头铁灰色头发的中年绅士；
• How did he look, sir? Was he portly, bold, outspoken, and hearty?
  他看来怎样，先生？他是不是又魁梧、又豪放、又直爽、又精神饱满呢？
• The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride.
  这位矮胖的委托人挺起胸膛，显得有点骄傲的样子。