原级:paunch
1. It is an unassuming brick building from the outside, a squat, ugly box one would expect to contain offices full of middle-aged Muggle businessmen with paunches and ugly ties, drinking bad coffee and generating useless paperwork.
从外面看起来这不过是一栋不起眼的砖房,一个低矮的,丑陋的小盒子,大概谁都以为里面满是中年的麻瓜生意人,啤酒肚,还有丑陋的领带,喝着难喝的咖啡,整理着无用的文件。
2. Fat paunches have lean pates. For the most part they had converted their small prebends into sizable paunches.
他们中的大部分人已靠着小小的俸禄养成了大腹便便者。
1. Impatient taxi drivers drape unbuckled seat belts over their paunches if they think traffic police are looking.