pygmy
pygmy ['pɪɡmi]
n. 侏儒;小矮人;微不足道的人 adj. 矮小的;俾格米人的
名词复数:pygmies
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- n. 侏儒;小矮人;微不足道的人
- adj. 矮小的;俾格米人的
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1. He regarded them as intellectual pygmies.
他把他们视为智力低弱的人。
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2. They were long known as pygmies.
他们长期以来被称为俾格米人。
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3. pygmy lamp
小型灯; 小灯泡;
- pygmy (n.) late 14c., Pigmei, "member of a fabulous race of dwarfs," described by Homer and Herodotus and said to inhabit Egypt or Ethiopia and India, from Latin Pygmaei (singular Pygmaeus), from Greek Pygmaioi, plural of Pygmaios "a Pygmy," noun use of adjective meaning "dwarfish," literally "of the length of a pygme; a pygme tall," from pygme "cubit," literally "fist," the measure of length from the elbow to the knuckle; related to pyx "with clenched fist" and to Latin pugnus "fist" (from PIE root *peuk- "to prick").
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