• adj. 小人國的；氣量小的
• n. 侏儒；小人國居民

源自喬納森.斯威夫特的小說《格列佛游記》中的小人國Lilliput，那里的居民僅有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.

1. Several other little - known worlds are tucked into corners of this Lilliputian state.

另外還有幾處不大為人所知的天地隱藏在這個“小人國”州的角落里.

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2. A relentless Globo Gym attack led by their Lilliputian leader, White Goodman.

無情的全球健身中心隊(duì)在他們侏儒領(lǐng)袖懷特古德曼領(lǐng)導(dǎo)下進(jìn)攻.

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3. In late January a Brobdingnagian battle erupted over a Lilliputian water dweller.

1月底,一種小小的水棲生物掀起了一場大戰(zhàn).

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4. Lithographic tools for transferring Lilliputian circuitry onto a wafer cost up to $ 50 m a pop.

流行的用來移動微小電路到晶圓上的印刷工具價值5千萬美元.

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5. But the Lilliputian price also explains why Fannie Mae might have buy - and - hold types feeling queasy.

但是其股價如此低靡,也同樣可以解釋為什麼人們厭惡于 長期 持有房利美的股票.

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