lilliputian是什么意思_lilliputian怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

very small;"diminutive in stature"
"a lilliputian chest of drawers"
"her petite figure"
"tiny feet"
"the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

(informal) small and of little importance;"a fiddling sum of money"
"a footling gesture"
"our worries are lilliputian compared with those of countries that are at war"
"a little (or small) matter"
"a dispute over niggling details"
"limited to petty enterprises"
"piffling efforts"
"giving a police officer a free meal may be against the law, but it seems to be a picayune infraction"

中英词源

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.

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权威造句

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

近反义词

Lilliputian 极小的

相似短语

lilliputian hallucination 小人国视幻觉，视物显小性幻觉

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