關鍵字彙：
brawny/ burly/ chubby/ comely/ corpulent/ countenance/ dwarf/ emaciated/ ethereal/ lanky/ lean/ midget/ obesity/ physiognomy/ plump/ portly/ profile/ pygmy, pigmy/ rotund/ sinewy/ stature/ stout/ sturdy/ torso/ visage/ whiskers
1. 「身高」可用stature（正式），「軀幹」叫torso：
•Helen is short in stature.
•Helen's short stature may be very much to her disadvantage if she wants to play basketball.
•He is a man of middle stature.
•The boy has grown above average stature.
•Generally, most adolescents will grow to (their) full stature.
•The diver under the sea sometimes cannot control his own torso.
2. 「很胖的」可用corpulent，假如要委婉地表示這種意思，用portly或plump。 另外，「胖嘟嘟的」、「微胖的」叫chubby（非正式），「圓胖的」叫rotund（正式），名詞「肥胖」可用obesity（正式）：
•The corpulent man resolved to reduce.
•He became corpulent due to excessive eating.
•The wealthy financier was a portly gentleman.
•I'm too plump to fit into this dress.
•The baby has plump little arms and legs.
•Most people have realized that chubby faces don't appeal as much as thin ones.
•The chubby baby is the pearl to the family.
•The store owner was a rotund little man.
•Falstaff could barely walk because of his obesity.
3. 「過於高瘦（以致顯得不好看）的」用lanky，「瘦弱的」叫emaciated或 lean：
•That lanky, overgrown boy looked very shy.
•The prisoner's long period of starvation left him wan and emaciated.
•The lean girl may have something wrong with her health.
4. 「健壯的」、「粗獷的」可用burly、stout或sturdy，形容「肌肉多而有力的」用brawny或sinewy：
•Regular exercise helped him become burly.
•We need a couple of stout young fellows to move the piano.
•He was running on his sturdy legs.
•The fisherman has brawny arms.
•Look at that football player with sinewy arms.
5. 「侏儒」可用dwarf、midget或pygmy (pigmy)（貶義）：
•The children were curious about the dwarf.
•The kids enjoyed watching the midget perform.
•The pygmy in the circus was one of the favorites to the young viewers.
6. 「面貌」可用countenance或visage（文言），如果是指能夠反應個人個性和內心的「面相」則用physiognomy。此外，「側面（像）」叫profile：
•He was a man with a kind heart but a fierce countenance.
•His countenance expressed his complete disgust.
•Nature has given the Indian a hard and stern countenance.
•The stern visage of the judge indicated that he had decided to impose a severe penalty.
•The fortune-teller prided himself on his ability to analyze a person's character by studying his or her physiognomy.
•Kennedy's handsome profile was a favorite to photographers.
7. 外貌「動人的」、「有姿色的」可用comely（文言），如果漂亮到「超凡的」、「有如天仙的」則用ethereal：
•He would rather have a comely wife than a rich one.
•Visitors were impressed by her ethereal beauty.
8. 「長於兩頰的鬍鬚」叫whiskers：
•After a week's growth of whiskers, he looked like a shabby vagabond.
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