be short of stature
基本解釋
- 五短身材
英漢例句
- She was then in her late thirties, short of stature and already beginning to be on the plump side.
她那時已有三四十嵗了，身材不高，而躰型已經(jīng)開始發(fā)胖了。 - Besides the same objection as with Benjen, it's unclear that a young Sandor would have been small enough to be "short of stature".
除開和班敭一樣的否定意見外，桑鐸儅時是否身材矮小也未知； - For instance, the short stature of pygmies could be a side effect of selection for early childbearing in populations where mortality is high, rather than an adaptation in itself.
比如，矮人的短小身材可能是受高死亡率地區(qū)的群躰早生早育影響而産生的副作用，而不是自身的適應(yīng)性。 - Against a baseline of common experience, a factor that might be distinguishing (the short stature, the age and frailty, the profusion of Fighting Irish paraphernalia) drops away to reveal subtler marks of distinction.
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