.thin-'skinned adj too easily offended or upset by criticism ≠ thick-skinned
1. Bamboo is this kind of grass. It grows up straight and thin, with branches at the top. 竹子就是这种草. 它长得又直又细, 顶端长着枝权.
2. But also, I was presenting to her one more particularly fine achievement: my own dark-eyed, dark-skinned, dark-haired daughter, whom my grandmother had never met. 但同时,我还要向她展示另一样特别出色的成就:我那黑眼睛、黑皮肤、黑头发的女儿,外婆还从来没有见过她呢。
3. When I am finished, I pull a chair up beside the bed to face her and, taking her free hand between mine, again notice the long, thin fingers. 而后,我挪了把椅子面朝她坐在床边,握住她那只空闲的手,此时我又一次注意到她那细长的手指。
4. While the media continues to show men of all ages alongside young, smooth-skinned women as a vision of success, women will go on investing in pots of worthless rubbish. 只要媒体继续将成功的形象表现为各年龄层的男性身边伴着皮肤光滑的年轻女性,妇女们就会继续花钱去买一瓶又一瓶毫无价值的垃圾。
5. The girl is very thin. 那女孩很瘦.
6. These objects, however, were different. Lined up against the wall, there were long thin wires attached to metal spheres. 这些展品却使人大开眼界。靠墙排列着许多细长的电线,而电线又连着金属球。
7. The UPC is printed by the manufacturer on each grocery item — a set of thin and thick vertical stripes accompanied by a series of numbers under the stripes and a zero, centered to the left of them. 条形码由厂家印在每一食品上——这是一组粗细不同、垂直排列的线条,线条下方有一组数字,左边有一个“0”字。
8. The big one's gun dug into the back of my head, the thin one's pistol into my left temple. 那个大个子劫匪用枪顶着我的后脑勺,小个子用左轮手枪顶着我左边的太阳穴。
9. The atmosphere was 30 degrees below zero centigrade and too thin to breathe. 大气温度为零下30摄氏度,空气稀薄得无法呼吸。
10. To give skin care scientific authority, beauty counters have now stolen a thin covering of respectability from the hospital clinic. 为了使皮肤护理具有科学的权威,销售美容品的柜台现已从医院诊所盗用了体面的外表。