音标:['pigmi] ;
n. 矮人, 侏儒
a. 矮小的
n. an unusually small individual
n. any member of various peoples having an average height of less than five feet
词型变化:名词复数形式 : pygmies
考试类型:[GRE]
词性分布:
形容词65%
名词35%

pygmy的用法和样例:

例句

用作名词(n.)
  1. The children stare at the silent Pygmy boy for a long time and he stares at them.那个小男孩眼睛盯着那个安静的小矮人不放一段时间后他打量着他们两人。
  2. He's a pygmy when compared with great musicians.他和伟大的音乐家相比就成了侏儒。
  3. Rare newborn albino Pygmy Marmoset monkeys perched on a zookeeper's fingers.稀有的新出生白子侏儒狨猴栖息在一位动物园管理员的手指上。

词汇搭配

  • pygmy water lily睡莲
  • pygmy weasel推断品系
  • pygmy current meter微型流速仪
  • pygmy矮人

经典引文

  • Maxwell and Lord Stevens are scarcely financial pygmies.

    出自:Sunday Times
  • The..volume established Lewis..as a giant among the pygmies of the Oxford English Faculty.

    出自:A. N. Wilson
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