rotund

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

Translation

adj.洪亮的;圓胖的

Phrases & Collocations

a rotund figure

圓胖的身材

a rotund face

圓臉

a rotund belly

大肚腩

a rotund appearance

圓潤的外表

Example Sentences

huge stoves held great rotund cauldrons.

龐大的爐子上託着大圓鍋。

a rotund character in the story

故事中一個豐滿的角色

a rotund silhouette against the sunset

在日落的背景下一個豐滿的輪廓

the rotund chef prepared a delicious meal

豐滿的廚師準備了一頓美味的飯菜

the rotund cat curled up on the couch

豐滿的貓在沙發上蜷縮着

a rotund vase on the mantelpiece

壁爐架上一個豐滿的花瓶

her laughter was loud and rotund

她的笑聲又大又圓

Real-world Examples

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

它們毛茸茸圓乎乎的,因傳言能預報天氣而聞名。

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.

如果我有巴西血統,那肯定沒問題,可是愛爾蘭血統讓我的身材是圓胖的。

Source: American English dialogue

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

不久之後,利巴爾來了, 他是圖克 (Toucques) 的農民, 身材矮小、圓胖、面色紅潤, 身穿灰色夾克和帶馬刺的靴子。

Source: A simple heart.

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

然後我讀了這部分,它是要扮演一個像抽着雪茄的傑克布萊克一樣胖乎乎的人。

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.

這種圓形的桶狀腹部在早期食草性盤龍類 Cotylorhynchus 身上得到了充分展示,它的身體使它的小腦袋相形見絀。

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.

迪克站起來認真地在地板上來回踱步,他是一個身材矮小、活潑、已經很圓潤的年輕人,雙手不自然地插在鼓鼓囊囊的口袋裏。

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.

我臉上泛起了笑容,因爲他那圓胖的身軀、象受了驚嚇似的神情使我每次見到總是要發笑。但是在我走近他以後,我發現他的神情非常沮喪。

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.

圓圓的、月亮形狀的媽媽們從公寓的窗戶裏探出頭來,就像這個骯髒天堂的星座;女人喜歡不完美的深色珠寶,女人喜歡蔬菜,女人喜歡大袋髒兮兮的衣服。

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.

七點鐘,卡利奧皮奇準備了不可避免的冷哈希晚餐,九點鐘,高高的條紋羽毛​​牀將他們圓圓的小身體抱在柔軟的懷抱中,平靜、安詳的睡眠很快降臨在他們的眼皮上。

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.

這座長滿樹木和荊棘的圓形小山矗立在一塊約九十英畝或一百英畝的耕地中央, 人們造訪它的頻率可能低於同等面積的湖泊中一塊岩石的造訪頻率。

Source: Lovers in the Tower (Part 1)

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