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Change log entry 70008
Processed by: richwarm (2020-07-06 00:58:55 GMT)
Comment: << review queue entry 66390 - submitted by 'pepe' >>
Examples:
他们是些茫然移动着的削瘦的、生病的年轻美国士兵.

哥哥那削瘦的脸上,只有一双眼还很有神,像一泓清溪蓄下的两汪深潭,蕴藏着内在的活力。

盯着他望的那个人的脸削瘦而苍白.
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Editor: I added a few synonyms to indicate that it's usually applied to a person's physical attributes (rather than, say, a knife blade).

I see that MoE gives xiāoshòu as the pronunciation, by the way.
(GF agrees with [xue1 shou4], though.)

examples ~

剃髮留鬚,顴骨突出,臉頰削瘦,面容帶著一種出世超脫的淺笑。
The top of his head is shaved, monk-like; a beard grows from hollow cheeks; and a slightly smiling expression of transcendence is on his face.

體質削瘦虛弱,氣質也顯得憂鬱內向;
His physique was skinny and weak, and he seemed fairly melancholy and introverted.

覺得畫像的嘴應該再大一點,臉則要削瘦一些。
They felt the mouth should be slightly larger, the sides of the face slightly thinner.

削瘦的身材、帥氣瀟灑的小動作,小P抱著愛貓的樣子顯得天真,
Holding her cat, the slender Little P comes across as naive and unfeigned,
Diff:
# 削瘦 削瘦 [xue1 shou4] /thin/see also 瘦削|瘦削[shou4 xue1]/
+ 削瘦 削瘦 [xue1 shou4] /thin/lean/slender/skinny/(of cheeks) hollow/
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