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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. 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."