spry

英 [spraɪ]

美 [spraɪ]

adj.  (尤指老人)精力充沛的，充满活力的

BNC.43428 / COCA.28741

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (尤指老人)精力充沛的,活跃的，充满活力的
  Someone, especially an old person, who isspry, is lively and active.
  1. The old gentleman was as spry as ever.
     这位老先生依然健旺。
  2. ...a spry old lady.
     精神矍铄的老妇人

英英释义

adj

• moving quickly and lightly
  1. sleek and agile as a gymnast
  2. as nimble as a deer
  3. nimble fingers
  4. quick of foot
  5. the old dog was so spry it was halfway up the stairs before we could stop it
  Synonym:agilenimblequick

双语例句

• He looked to be in his seventies and, although careful with his steps, quite spry for his age.
  他看上去七十多岁的样子，虽然他走路很小心，但他的步伐对他这个年龄的人来说还算很敏捷。
• The old gentleman was as spry as ever.
  这位老先生依然健旺。
• He was very spry and well-dressed.
  他很活泼而且衣着讲究。
• Paul Sherman Yale was small, spry and upright.
  保罗·谢尔曼·耶尔身材矮小，动作敏捷，站得笔挺。
• A fall on the leaves didn't hurt a spry fellow like him.
  掉在树叶子上摔了一下，伤不着象他这号利索的家伙。
• Yao is plenty spry at27.
  27岁的姚明仍然非常灵活。
• While Sir Run Run may feel spry enough to walk down the red carpet again next year, a deal he is trying to broker may bring an end to his reign as chairman of the broadcaster he helped found 41 years ago.
  虽然邵逸夫可能觉得精力足够充沛，明年可以再次走下红地毯，但他努力撮合的一桩交易，可能终结他在TVB的统治。41年前，他协助创立了这家广播电视公司。
• He is very spry and well-dressed, more like a young society man than anything else, and very standoffish.
  他很活泼，衣着很讲究，很象一个社交场中的年轻人，而且很自高自大。
• The sea spry stings all their cuts and bruises.
  飞溅的浪花灼痛了他们的伤口和肿处。
• You don't get to be 92 and still spry by being stupid.
  如果你慵懒就不能活到92并且仍然充满生气。