Butterflies are delicate insects. Their wings are thin and can be easily damaged.

蝴蝶是一种纤弱的昆虫。它们的翅膀单薄，极易受损。

They watched her slight figure retreating until finally she was swallowed by the darkness.

他们注视着她纤弱的身影越走越远，最后被黑暗。

Tender perennials are perennials in the sense that they live for more than one year.

纤弱的多年生植物是自身寿命超过一年的多年生植物。

Why should these delicate creatures have emerged unscathed from such an unparalleled disaster?

“为什么这些纤弱的动物能安然无恙地逃过这场空前的灾难？”

His victims were generally small, slight women, who'd given little or no encouragement.

他的受害者多为纤弱的女人，而且并未挑逗过他。

Tender perennials that work well for cutting include California poppy, snapdragon, and strawflower.

适合做切花的纤弱多年生植物包括花菱草、金鱼草和蜡菊。

If those vibrations are too strong, it can bend, break, or even destroy these delicate hairs.

如那些震动太强能弯曲、破坏或者甚至摧毁这些纤弱的绒毛。

Eustacia sighed—it was no fragile maiden sigh, but a sigh which shook her like a shiver.

游苔莎叹口气，这不是纤弱少女的轻轻叹息，而是使她浑身一阵颤抖的叹息。

The wispy little witch beside Crouch began to rock backward and forward in her seat, whimpering into her handkerchief.

克劳奇旁边那个纤弱的女巫开始前后摇晃，用手帕捂着嘴呜咽啜泣。

So let's go out there and try to create communities of hope despite all odds, like tender dandelions breaking through asphalt.

所以尽管困难重重，让我们行动起来创建充满希望的，像纤弱的蒲公英也可以钻破沥青。

The descriptions often include whether specific kinds of flowers, from perennials, annuals or tender perennials, work well for cutting and showing.

描述通常包括以下内容：特定种类的花是否适合剪下来并展示，不管是多年生植物、一年生植物还是纤弱的多年生植物。

She has been innocent, and the black hands of jealousy have crushed her reedlike throat.

她曾是无辜的，嫉妒的黑手掐碎她芦苇般纤弱的喉咙。

Then Charlie walked over stiffly and put a giant hand on her tiny shoulder.

查理僵硬地走过来，将一只大手轻轻搭在她纤弱的肩上。

The rain cascaded down their delicate, trailing branches onto the sandy ground below.

雨水顺着它们纤弱的、拖曳的树枝倾泻到下面的沙地上。

If I tear, if I rend the slight prison, my outrage will only let the captive loose.

若我撕裂这纤弱的牢笼，我的鲁莽只会让囚徒重获自由。

Fear of this slight, young woman who has elected to come in a show of sympathy and respect.

对这位纤弱而年轻的女子心生畏惧，她主动前来，以示同情与敬意。

Beyond the beltway, people worried about the effect of violent rap music and even more violent video games on the nation's delicate youth.

在华盛顿之外，人们担心暴力饶舌音乐和甚至更暴力的电子游戏会对美国纤弱的青少年造成影响。

The other was as certainly Georgiana: but not the Georgiana I remembered—the slim and fairy-like girl of eleven.

另一位无疑是乔治娜，但已非我记忆中的模样——那个十一岁时的苗条纤弱、宛如仙女的女孩。

Harry wondered whether constant disappearances and reappearances had somehow diminished his substance, or whether this frail build was ideal for anyone wishing to vanish.

哈利想，或许是因为经常移形和显形削弱他的体质，或是这种纤弱的体形最适于消失。

Two of the men climbed back aboard the Cassandra and grabbed Dr. D. Sheena was killing them with her puny little fists.

其中两个人爬回卡桑德拉号并抓住 D 博士。希娜正在用她纤弱的小拳头杀死他们。