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。
• 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。
• Furthermore, the effects of room dimensions, locations of spray head and spray parameters on fire extinguishing time are studied. It is discussed and suggestions are given about how to determine spry intensity of system design.
  在此基础上，仿真研究了房间尺寸、喷头位置和喷雾参数对灭火时间的影响，对如何确定设计喷雾强度进行了讨论并给出改进建议。
• 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。
• 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。
• The application of spry-starch in paper making
  喷雾淀粉在造纸中的应用
• The old gentleman was as spry as ever.
  这位老先生依然健旺。
• The blooms have a powerful fragrance-an outstanding example of the classic English Rose scent based on the myrrh note first introduced with Constance Spry.
  在华有一个强大的香水-一个典型的英国玫瑰香味突出的例子没药的基础上首先注意到康斯坦茨斯普赖介绍。
• We need younger, more spry leaders to take over from these geriatrics.
  肯尼亚需要的不是这些老气横秋的领袖，而是年轻、充满活力的领导人。
• He hurries to spry the stove ash on it
  他赶紧把灶火里面的灰盖在上面