It was curious how that beetle-like type proliferated in the Ministries: little dumpy men, growing stout very early in life, with short legs, swift scuttling movements, and fat inscrutable faces with very small eyes

怪得很，各部里满是些甲虫一样的小人儿。他们短粗矮小，早早变得胖墩墩，拖着两条小短腿儿，快手快脚，跑东跑西，肉嘟嘟的肥脸木然一团，还有双小而又小的眼睛。

He dated a girl with a dumpy figure.

他与一个身材矮胖的姑娘约会。

One day, Jane hears a shrill, blood-curdling laugh coming from the room, but Mrs. Fairfax pretends that the maniacal noise was made by Grace Poole, a rather dumpy , unprepossessing servant.

一天，简听见一阵令人毛骨悚然的尖笑声，是从那个房间里传来的。但菲尔费克斯太太佯称这狂笑声是格雷斯·普尔发出的，她是一个相当矮胖，不讨人喜欢的仆人。

A dumpy Japanese is asking for you.

有个矮矮胖胖的日本人在找你。

The place had a dark and dumpy look(Washington Post)

这地方看起来阴暗而肮脏(华盛顿邮报)

||1:Despite the fact that Albert was dark, dumpy and short, and he was tall, fair and much handsomer, he had always looked up to him, so to speak.||2:If Albert had been a fireman, he would have been a fireman too.||3:As it was, Albert went young to be apprenticed to a pastry-chef, so at 14 he did the same.||4:There at last he surpassed his brother, becoming so good at pastries and desserts that for many years he held the title of Best Pastrycook in France.

||1:尽管艾伯特又黑又矮又胖，而他又高又白又帅，但是可以说，他一直都很尊敬艾伯特。||2:如果艾伯特是一名消防员，他也会成为一名消防员。||3:现实是，阿尔伯特很年轻就去做糕点师的学徒，所以在14岁时，米歇尔也做了同样的事情。||4:在那里，米歇尔终于超越了他的哥哥。他非常擅长糕点和甜点，多年来，他一直是法国最好的面点师。

IN SCANDINAVIAN folklore trolls were dumpy with grotesque faces and uncontrollable hair.

在斯堪的纳维亚半岛的民间传说里，巨魔们都是长着丑脸、披着乱发的矮胖形象。

He had a dumpy office and taught mostly unimpressive students.

办公室破旧不堪，而学生呢，多数资质平平。

After a few hours of work, we’d managed to turn a dumpy useless room into an actual guest room.

经过几小时忙活，我们把一个没用的小屋变成了名副其实的客房了。

You’ll be happy to find that maternity clothes are, for the most part, no longer frumpy and dumpy .

你会发现现在的孕妇装绝大部分已经不再是粗短见不得人的啦。

So when I made it out of the house and started for work, I felt pretty dumpy and despondent.

所以我走出家去上班的时候，相当失望和沮丧。

I despised the dumpy kid for curling up and letting us beat on him.

我瞧不起那个矮胖小子，他蜷起身子，任凭我们揍他。

As demand for rubber soared small dumpy river towns like Manaus, Brazil, were transformed into over night into bustling centers of commerce.

由于对橡胶的需求急速增长，象巴西马瑙斯那样的肮脏破旧的河畔小镇一夜之间就变成了热闹的商业中心。

dumpy level

n.定镜水准仪