2020-08-26
15 分钟Hi, this is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast, where I try to help you to understand the english language a little better.
Try to look at issues in dealing with grammar, phrasal, verbs, expressions, and vocabulary.
So we try to help you to improve your business English or conversational English, any aspects that you would like to look at.
So in the podcast now, we're going to take a look at adjectives.
In particular, we're going to look at adjectives that describe people's physical appearance.
So, as always, I'm going to give you these adjectives, and then I'm going to give you a little bit information about what they mean.
Some of them are a little less used than others, but I'll go through them in detail and you'll be able to identify whether they refer to you or somebody that you know close to you or in your work environment.
Okay, so, adjectives to describe physical appearance.
The first is plump.
Yeah.
So just in the pronunciation, plump, you get that p sound.
Plump.
Plump means somebody who is a little overweight or fleshy, meaning too much flesh.
So somebody overweight, he's a young boy, he's a little plump, but when he gets to school and starts running around, he'll lose that excess weight.
So he's at the moment, a little plump.
A little overweight.
Corpulent, this is a very formal word, not something we use so often, because we tend to use something a little bit more informal.
But corpulent describes something or somebody excessively fat.
Very corpulent executive would be describing some chief executive or coo or somebody who is used to too many corporate business lunches and fancy wines, and it tends to become a little bit too weight, and they have to squeeze into their suit and never look so comfortable.
Somebody corpulent, somebody who might be excessively fat.