guinea pig
guinea pig 英 ['ɡɪnɪ pɪɡ] 美 [ˈɡɪni pɪɡ]
phrase. 豚鼠；天竺鼠
名词复数:guinea pigs
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- phrase. 豚鼠；天竺鼠
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1. If you want a small pet that you can actually pet, a guinea pig is a good choice.
如果你只是想要一只小宠物，一只正在的宠物，天竺鼠是一个很好的选择。
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2. We only showed it in mice, so one has to extend this to other animal models—the ferret and the guinea pig.
我们现在只在老鼠身上实验成功，还需要扩展到更多的动物样本上——白鼬、雪貂和天竺鼠。
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3. Officials in the coastal Peruvian province of Callao on Monday hailed the guinea pig as a low cost, low fat alternative to a traditional turkey or roast pork Christmas dinner.
秘鲁的沿海省份卡里奥的官员在周一宣布天竺鼠可以摆上圣诞餐桌来代替传统的火鸡或是烤猪。 天竺鼠更加的便宜，而且脂肪含量较低。
- guinea pig (n.) rodent native to South America, 1660s. It does not come from Guinea and has nothing to do with the pig. Perhaps so called either because it was brought back to Britain aboard Guinea-men, ships that plied the triangle trade between England, Guinea, and South America [Barnhart, Klein], or from its resemblance to the young of the Guinea-hog "river pig" [OED], or from confusion of Guinea with the South American region of Guyana (but OED is against this). Pig probably for its grunting noises. In the extended sense of "one subjected to an experiment" it is first recorded 1920, because they were commonly used in medical experiments (by 1865).
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