pygmy
pygmy ['pɪɡmi]
n. [内科] 侏儒；俾格米人（一种身高不满五英尺的矮小人种）；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. [内科] 侏儒；俾格米人（一种身高不满五英尺的矮小人种）；微不足道的人
- adj. 矮小的；俾格米人的
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1. Slowly I raised it andprepared to slip it around his throat and choke the breath of life outof the salivating four-eyed pygmy.
我慢慢地举起腰带，准备悄悄在他的喉咙周围卷上一圈，让这个唾液分泌过多的四眼侏儒窒息死亡。
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2. None is thought to exist in the wild, which means the two females -- Lolo and Bryn -- are the only known purebred pygmy rabbits left in existence.
这就意味着，剩下的这两只雌性侏儒兔——露露和布莱恩，是目前已知的世界上仅存的两只血统纯正的哥伦比亚盆地侏儒兔。
- 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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