rotund

[US]/rə(ʊ)'tʌnd/
[UK]/ro'tʌnd/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj.洪亮的;圆胖的

Phrases & Collocations

a rotund figure

圆胖的身材

a rotund face

圆脸

a rotund belly

大肚腩

a rotund appearance

圆润的外表

Example Sentences

huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons.

庞大的炉子上托着大圆锅。

a rotund character in the story

故事中一个丰满的角色

a rotund silhouette against the sunset

在日落的背景下一个丰满的轮廓

the rotund chef prepared a delicious meal

丰满的厨师准备了一顿美味的饭菜

the rotund cat curled up on the couch

丰满的猫在沙发上蜷缩着

a rotund vase on the mantelpiece

壁炉架上一个丰满的花瓶

her laughter was loud and rotund

她的笑声又大又圆

Real-world Examples

They're furry, rotund, and famous for their rumored weather forecasting skills.

它们毛茸茸圆乎乎的,因传言能预报天气而闻名。

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American March 2023 Collection

If I was Brazilian, no problem, but the Irish in me makes me more probably rotund, let's say round, than anything else.

如果我有巴西血统,那肯定没问题,可是爱尔兰血统让我的身材是圆胖的。

Source: American English dialogue

Shortly afterwards came Liebard, the farmer of Toucques, short, rotund and ruddy, wearing a grey jacket and spurred boots.

不久之后,利巴尔来了, 他是图克 (Toucques) 的农民, 身材矮小、圆胖、面色红润, 身穿灰色夹克和带马刺的靴子。

Source: A simple heart.

And then I read the part and it was to play someone who was like rotund, cigar smoking Jack Black.

然后我读了这部分,它是要扮演一个像抽着雪茄的杰克布莱克一样胖乎乎的人。

Source: GQ — Representative Roles of Celebrities

This rotund, barrel-like belly is on full display in the early herbivorous pelycosaur Cotylorhynchus, whose body dwarfed its tiny head.

这种圆形的桶状腹部在早期食草性盘龙类 Cotylorhynchus 身上得到了充分展示,它的身体使它的小脑袋相形见绌。

Source: PBS Earth - Animal Fun Facts

Dick arose and paced the floor earnestly, a small, active, already rotund young man, his hands thrust unnaturally into his bulging pockets.

迪克站起来认真地在地板上来回踱步,他是一个身材矮小、活泼、已经很圆润的年轻人,双手不自然地插在鼓鼓囊囊的口袋里。

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 1)

I smiled, for his appearance, so rotund and yet so startled, could never fail to excite a smile, and then as I came nearer I noticed that he seemed singularly disconsolate.

我脸上泛起了笑容,因为他那圆胖的身躯、象受了惊吓似的神情使我每次见到总是要发笑。但是在我走近他以后,我发现他的神情非常沮丧。

Source: The Moon and Sixpence (Condensed Version)

From the tenement windows leaned rotund, moon-shaped mothers, as constellations of this sordid heaven; women like dark imperfect jewels, women like vegetables, women like great bags of abominably dirty laundry.

圆圆的、月亮形状的妈妈们从公寓的窗户里探出头来,就像这个肮脏天堂的星座;女人喜欢不完美的深色珠宝,女人喜欢蔬菜,女人喜欢大袋脏兮兮的衣服。

Source: Beauty and Destruction (Part 2)

At seven o'clock Kalliopitch produced the inevitable supper of cold hash, and at nine the high striped feather-bed received their rotund little bodies in its soft embrace, and a calm, untroubled sleep soon descended upon their eyelids.

七点钟,卡利奥皮奇准备了不可避免的冷哈希晚餐,九点钟,高高的条纹羽毛​​床将他们圆圆的小身体抱在柔软的怀抱中,平静、安详的睡眠很快降临在他们的眼皮上。

Source: Virgin Land (Part 1)

This rotund hill of trees and brambles, standing in the centre of a ploughed field of some ninety or a hundred acres, was probably visited less frequently than a rock would have been visited in a lake of equal extent.

这座长满树木和荆棘的圆形小山矗立在一块约九十英亩或一百英亩的耕地中央, 人们造访它的频率可能低于同等面积的湖泊中一块岩石的造访频率。

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

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