1, slimming: lose weight and fat, and make your body slimmer.
2. Lean meat: refers to meat with less fat content, such as lean beef and pork.
3, face-lifting: through diet control, massage, exercise to reduce facial fat, so that the face looks thinner.
4, slimming clothes: tight underwear, can help adjust the body shape, make the body slimmer.
5, emaciated: describe the body is thin and weak.
6, tall and thin: describe slim and tall.
7, thin: describe the figure is thin and tall.
Thin is an adjective, which is mainly used to describe the figure or shape of people or things. Usually refers to the state of being thin, emaciated, light in weight or low in fat content. In China, thinness is usually an aesthetic concept and is sometimes regarded as a symbol of health and beauty.
However, being too thin may sometimes be related to health problems, so it is necessary to pay attention to the balance between diet and lifestyle in order to maintain a healthy posture. In addition to describing people, thinness can also describe the size, width and thickness of objects, such as a thin pencil and a thin piece of paper.
Besides describing people and things, thinness can also be used to describe certain characteristics or situations. For example, "small profits" can describe someone as very smart and resourceful, while "thin soil" can describe the poor nutrition and water conditions of the land. In spoken English, thin can also be used as a verb, meaning to lose weight, lose weight, etc. For example, "I'm losing weight recently and go to the gym every week."
In different cultures and societies, there are different standards and preferences for ideal figure and body shape. In some Asian countries, such as China and Japan, thinness is regarded as a beautiful and elegant figure, while in some western countries, such as the United States, some institutions and people pay more attention to healthy weight and fat content, rather than necessarily pursuing the figure implied by the word "thinness".
The source of thin characters
The word "skinny" originated from Oracle Bone Inscriptions, which originally meant "skinny". The shape of the word "thin" in Oracle Bone Inscriptions consists of two parts. The upper part is a pictographic symbol representing bones, and the "thin" means cutting bones, while the lower part is a pictographic symbol representing meat. As can be seen from the glyph, the original meaning of "thin" is to describe the state that human body or animals are skinny and have little meat.
With the passage of time, Chinese characters gradually evolved and simplified, and thin characters began to use different writing methods, such as thin body and thin. In modern Chinese, the meaning of "thinness" is not limited to describing the state of human body or animals, but also can be used to describe the size or shape, slender, and some characteristics and situations of objects.