pinched是什么意思？

pinched

英[pɪntʃt] 美[pɪntʃt]

• adj. 短缺的，匮乏的；
• v. 夹痛( pinch的过去式和过去分词 )，逮捕，盗窃，使入不敷出；

例句

• The child was crying because somebody had pinched her. 那孩子哭了, 因为有人掐她。
• The police pinched him. 警察逮捕了他。
• The thief pinched her purse and ran away. 小偷偷了她的皮夹子跑了。
• Their faces were pinched with grief. 他们的面容因悲伤而憔悴。
• A man pinched her bum on the train so she hit him. 在火车上有人捏她屁股，她打了那人。
• The mother pinched her baby black and blue. 这位母亲将她的孩子掐得青一块紫一块的.
• The pickpocket pinched her purse and ran away. 扒手偷了她的皮夹子跑了.
• A larger number of budlike protuberances form and are pinched off to give microcells. 大量芽状突出物形成,并被脱出以获得微细胞.
• She pinched the aphids off the rose. 她从玫瑰(花)上抓走蚜虫.
• The problem was finally, though not conclusively, identified as a severely pinched nerve. 问题终于被认定为是神经受到严重挤压，尽管这还不是最终结论。

柯林斯高阶英汉双解学习词典释义

• ADJ-GRADED
  消瘦苍白的；形容憔悴的
  If someone's face is pinched, it looks thin and pale, usually because they are ill or old.
  例句
  Her face was pinched and drawn... 她一脸苍白憔悴。 She was a small, silent woman with pinched features and thin hair. 她是一位瘦小、沉默的女子，面容消瘦，头发稀疏。

英英词典释义

• Adjective
  1. sounding as if the nose were pinched;
  "a whining nasal voice"
  2. very thin especially from disease or hunger or cold;
  "emaciated bony hands""a nightmare population of gaunt men and skeletal boys""eyes were haggard and cavernous""small pinched faces""kept life in his wasted frame only by grim concentration"
  3. not having enough money to pay for necessities
  4. as if squeezed uncomfortably tight;
  "her pinched toes in her pointed shoes were killing her"