puny

adj.

1. 弱小的；孱弱的
   small and weak
   1. The lamb was a puny little thing.
      羊羔瘦小孱弱。
2. 不起眼的；可怜的；微不足道的
   not very impressive
   1. They laughed at my puny efforts.
      他们嘲笑我微不足道的努力。

1. ADJ-GRADED 弱小的；微弱的
   Someone or something that is puny is very small or weak.
   1. ...a puny, bespectacled youth...
      戴眼镜的瘦弱青年
   2. The resources at the central banks' disposal are simply too puny.
      中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。

1. The resources at the central banks 'disposal are simply too puny.
   中央银行掌握的资金实在太少了。
2. What can puny human strength take by force out of the hand of Omnipotence?
   微弱的人们能用武力从全能者的手中夺取祝福么？
3. And how do these puny pods protect your face?
   这些小小豆荚如何保护你的肌肤呢？
4. Have grandiose aims but puny abilities, great ambition but little talent.
   这些人有一颗硕大的头颅和瘦小的身子。
5. That's the way with you whining, puny, pitiful players.
   你们这种又爱哭、又软弱、又可怜的赌棍就是这样。
6. I may even spare your puny little life.
   我说不定会饶了你这条小命。
7. This puny mortal will be no problem.
   对付这个凡人，会顺利的。
8. My car only has a puny little engine.
   我的汽车只有一只功率很小的引擎。
9. So that puny little pressure ends up being meters high.
   所以如此小的压强，导致了数米高的水柱。
10. Looking at these skyscrapers and these lighted windows in a row at night, one gets more and more conceited about the power of human civilization and forgets what puny little creatures human beings are.
    一个人看见这些摩天楼和夜间的一列有灯光的窗户时，对于人类文明的力量越发感到骄傲而自负，而忘记人类是多么孱弱而渺小的动物。
11. It is remarkable that the stature of this population should have diminished in the last fifty years and the populace of the suburbs is still more puny than at the time of the Revolution.
    五十年来，人民的材又缩小了，这是值得注意的，巴黎四郊的人民，比革命前更矮小了。
12. Once there was a puny little concert violinist named Rudolf, who lived in Sweden.
    从前在瑞典，有一身材瘦弱矮小的小提琴手，名叫鲁道夫。
13. Our intention is to rescue the puny kids who could have their minds twisted due to parents like yourself.
    救助弱小是我们的本意，我们不希望未成年人在你这样的父母羽翼下扭曲成长。
14. At home, fierce competition among thousands of producers and brands translates into puny market shares and slim profits.
    在中国本土，数千家生产商和品牌之间的激烈竞争，导致各自只能获得极小的市场份额和微薄的利润。
15. This might show his followers how puny and weak was his power and how empty their flattery.
    也许，这能使他的朝臣们看明白他的力量是多么渺小，多么微不足道，而他们的恭维又是多么无聊。
16. Offshore accounts offered puny rates of interest because banks could do so little with the money.
    境外账户的利率小的可怜，因为银行拿这些人民币一点用都没有。
17. Yes, you Asians and the Jews have taken up all the IQ points in the world, and the rest of us are lucky to be endowed with the puny remaining IQ's.
    是的，你们亚洲人和犹太人拥有世上几乎所有的智商，我们其他人则很幸运地被赐予余下智商中的一丁点儿。
18. Not anything that we puny humans could ever do.
    没有任何我们这样微不足道的人类曾经做过的事情。
19. If he had been small or puny or sickly or misshapen he would've been discarded.
    如果他很瘦小或者羸弱或者多病或者畸形，他就会被丢弃。
20. Puny though he looked, he was as brave as a lion.
    虽然他看上去弱小，但却十分勇敢。
21. Phantom: You puny pathetic thing! I'll step on you like an ant!
    蜘蛛：你这个可怜虫！我将会像踩扁一只蚂蚁一样踩扁你！
22. Morbo: Presenting puny human number one, puny human number two and Morbo's good friend Richard Nixon.
    莫尔博：现在出现的是弱小人类一号，弱小人类二号和莫尔博的好朋友理查德·尼克松。
23. As you have recognized our superiority, we will let your puny civilization survive for the moment.
    既然你已经承认我们的优越性，我想我们会暂时饶你们这次等文明一条狗命的。
24. If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.
    如果他以他那软弱的身心的整个力量爱她八年，也抵不上我一天的爱。
25. Gouki: I need no help from a puny little girl such as yourself!
    豪鬼：我不需要得到一个像你这样微不足道的小女孩的帮助！
26. Although we are puny and insignificant on the scale of the cosmos, this makes us in a sense the lords of creation.
    虽然相对于宇宙而言，我们显得那样卑微渺小、微不足道，但是我们却在某种意义上充当了造物主的角色。
27. Its stimulus measures, once derided as puny, have delivered a bigger bang for the buck than anyone expected.
    德国的经济刺激措施曾被嘲笑为微不足道，但其影响却超出了所有人的预期。
28. As such, these puny foraminifera serve as very distinct tags of when the K-T extinction event started.
    因此，当K-T灭绝事件开始时这些微小的有孔虫充当十分鲜明的标签。
29. You'll never be able to lift that heavy box with your puny muscles.
    你以这样瘦弱的肌肉是永远举不起那只沉重的箱子的。

adj

1. (used especially of persons) of inferior size

   Synonym:    runtyshrimpy

2. inferior in strength or significance
   1. a puny physique
   2. puny excuses