wispy

英 [ˈwɪspi]

美 [ˈwɪspi]

adj.  一绺绺的; 一缕缕的; 成束的; 纤细的

最高级：wispiest　

TOEFL

BNC.21169 / COCA.16412

牛津词典

adj.

• 一绺绺的；一缕缕的；成束的；纤细的
  consisting of small, thin pieces; not thick
  1. wispy hair/clouds
     一缕缕头发 / 云彩
  2. a wispy beard
     一胡须

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED (头发)稀疏的，稀稀拉拉的
  If someone haswispyhair, their hair does not grow thickly on their head.
  1. Grey wispy hair straggled down to her shoulders.
     稀疏的灰白头发披散在她肩头。
• ADJ-GRADED (云)一缕缕的，虚无缥缈的
  Awispycloud is thin or faint.
  1. The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.
     半轮月亮躲在淡淡的云彩之后。

双语例句

• Life in Color: Yellow A time-lapse photo captures the wispy steam and yellow glow of the Georgia-Pacific paper mill in Brunswick, Georgia, at night.
  生活在色彩之内：黄色。一幅在时间失误的照片捕捉到飘渺的水蒸气和黄色光芒的乔治亚――太平洋造纸厂于Brunswick（德国中部），乔治亚，在夜晚。
• On Earth, white wispy cirrus clouds are made of ice crystals.
  在地球上，白色的细小卷云是由冰晶形成的。
• The half moon is hidden behind some wispy clouds.
  半轮月亮躲在淡淡的云彩之后。
• Their wispy dorsal fins contain toxin-filled needles used to dissuade would-be predators.
  它们的小束状的背鳍含有毒素-充满针刺过去常常劝阻将到的食肉动物。
• Having glorious thick, shiny hair herself that hangs all the way down to her butt, she feels sorry for me with my wispy blond mop.
  她自己有一头浓密、闪亮的及腰秀发，为我这头小捆、蓬松的金发感到可怜。
• A wispy white cloud ( usually of fine ice crystals) at a high altitude ( 4 to 8 miles).
  高空中（公里）的小束的白色云朵（通常为细小的冰晶组成）。
• Fibrocartilage, with wispy, broad collagenic fibers predominating in the matrix.
  纤维软骨，基质中大量的胶原纤维。
• A wispy little fellow with small hands and feet-Edmund Wilson.
  小手小脚的瘦弱家伙&埃德蒙·威尔逊。
• The turn against the notion of junk DNA, they argue, is based on overinterpretations of wispy evidence and a willful ignorance of years of solid research on the genome.
  他们认为，反对垃圾DNA的概念，不过是基于对少数证据的过度解读，以及对多年来扎实的基因组研究的刻意忽视。
• The problem with both ideas is that the nebulas are so distant and wispy that they cannot be observed in sufficient detail.
  两种观点的问题在于：星云遥远而模糊，无法对其进行特别详尽的观测。