lilliput
/lil-i-puht, -puht/US // ˈlɪl ɪˌpʌt, -pət //
小人国,小人国的,长颈鹿
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : an imaginary country inhabited by people about 6 inches tall, described in Jonathan Swift's Gulliver's Travels.
Examples
Mara, of course, has that other-worldly star aura: remarkably perfect skin and a body from Lilliput.
He knew that around the center they contemptuously called him "Lilliput."
Faithful to the promise of his great master, the youthful Cavalcadour called in Lilliput Street the next day.
Then, the masked shrew—for so we humans have named this escape from Lilliput—flashed out into the open.
It was a satire, of course—Gulliver's Lilliput outdone—a sort of scientific, socialistic, mathematical jamboree.
Arbuthnot says he "lent the book to an old gentleman, who went immediately to his map to search for Lilliput."
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