lilliputian
['lɪlə'pjʊʃən]
- adj. 小人国的;气量小的
- n. 侏儒;小人国居民
Lilliputian 极小的,微小的源自乔纳森.斯威夫特的小说《格列佛游记》中的小人国Lilliput,那里的居民仅有15厘米高。
- Lilliputian (adj.)
- "diminutive, tiny," literally "pertaining to Lilliput," the fabulous island whose inhabitants were six inches high, a name coined by Jonathan Swift in "Gulliver's Travels" (1726). Swift left no explanation of the origin of the word.
- 1. Several other little - known worlds are tucked into corners of this Lilliputian state.
- 另外还有几处不大为人所知的天地隐藏在这个“小人国”州的角落里.
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- 2. A relentless Globo Gym attack led by their Lilliputian leader, White Goodman.
- 无情的全球健身中心队在他们侏儒领袖怀特古德曼领导下进攻.
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- 3. In late January a Brobdingnagian battle erupted over a Lilliputian water dweller.
- 1月底,一种小小的水栖生物掀起了一场大战.
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- 4. Lithographic tools for transferring Lilliputian circuitry onto a wafer cost up to $ 50 m a pop.
- 流行的用来移动微小电路到晶圆上的印刷工具价值5千万美元.
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- 5. But the Lilliputian price also explains why Fannie Mae might have buy - and - hold types feeling queasy.
- 但是其股价如此低靡,也同样可以解释为什麽人们厌恶于 长期 持有房利美的股票.
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