Dwarf
[dwɔːf] or [dwɔrf]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a plant or animal that is atypically small.
(noun.) a person who is markedly small.
(verb.) check the growth of; 'the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines'.
整理:梅纳德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) An animal or plant which is much below the ordinary size of its species or kind; especially, a diminutive human being.
(v. t.) To hinder from growing to the natural size; to make or keep small; to stunt.
(v. i.) To become small; to diminish in size.
克林顿編輯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Pygmy, hop o' my thumb.
v. a. Stunt, hinder from growth.
海耶斯校對
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Lower, stunt, depress
ANT:Heighten, elevate, raise
SYN:Pigmy, {[imp]?}, abortion, puck
ANT:Giant, monster, Hercules
手打:洛葛仙妮
解釋/意思:
n. an animal or plant that does not reach the ordinary height: a diminutive man.—v.t. to hinder from growing: to make to appear small.—adjs. Dwarf′ish Dwarf like a dwarf: very small: despicable.—adv. Dwarf′ishly.—n. Dwarf′ishness.—Dwarfed trees small trees growing in flower-pots a characteristic ornament in Chinese and Japanese houses and gardens.
格里菲思校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
This is a very favorable dream. If the dwarf is well formed and pleasing in appearance, it omens you will never be dwarfed in mind or stature. Health and good constitution will admit of your engaging in many profitable pursuits both of mind and body. To see your friends dwarfed, denotes their health, and you will have many pleasures through them. Ugly and hideous dwarfs, always forebodes distressing states.
整理:洛厄尔
例句/造句/用法:
- Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I particularly recollect his case, from his being took by a dwarf. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- Where would he hide himself when the dwarf with seven fingers on each hand, no upper lip, and his under-jaw gone, came down in his majesty? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The more immediate scenery consisted of fields and farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf and a moustached woman inside it. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- You should have said, short as a dwarf, returned Jacques Two. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- The dense brown line of the trees on the opposite bank appeared above it, like a dwarf forest floating in the sky. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- If you want dwarfs--I mean just a few dwarfs for a curiosity--go to Genoa. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- There are plenty of dwarfs all over Italy, but it did seem to me that in Milan the crop was luxuriant. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
校對:韦恩