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puppet

/puhp-it/US // ˈpʌp ɪt //UK // (ˈpʌpɪt) //

傀儡,木偶,儡,木偶人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : an artificial figure representing a human being or an animal, manipulated by the hand, rods, wires, etc., as on a miniature stage.Compare hand puppet, marionette.
    • : a person, group, government, etc., whose actions are prompted and controlled by another or others.
    • : a small doll.
    • : Machinery. poppethead.

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Examples

  • She says she no longer thinks of God as a personified being pulling the puppet strings.

  • The satirical twist is that all the footage shown as real is, of course, deepfaked, while all the footage labeled fake is either real or played by puppets.

  • Computer-programmed light pulses can then target these newly light-sensitive neurons in a particular region of the brain and control their activity like puppets on a string.

  • He’d look at the wrong target, knowing it was wrong, but still stare at it like a puppet.

  • Here’s what the actor Geena Davis — by the way, she prefers “actor” to “actress” — here’s what she told us about the beloved educational series with a cast of puppet characters.

  • Based on his sock puppet, I expected him to be a burly bearded giant clad in plaid—basically, a Canadian Paul Bunyan.

  • In 2006, Israel's Rechov Sumsum added Mahboub, an Arab-Israeli puppet who spoke both languages on the series.

  • It was a hand, it was a puppet, it was half-CGI, but mostly puppetry.

  • In another study, children saw a puppet show where a mouse was eaten by an alligator.

  • So, in short, everyone knows Leung is a mere puppet with zero power and will read out whatever the communists dictate to him.

  • The puppet had been torn from Mazaroff's hands; those compromising papers had vanished from Countess Saens's drawer.

  • I have heard of puppet rulers before—woman whom I am delighted to learn has a human heart after all.

  • A number of persons were assembled in the tap-room of the inn, where a man was exhibiting a puppet-show.

  • If you would call me puppet to-morrow, we might strike a balance and find—what should we find?

  • Falser than the Bank of Fancy, frailer than a shilling glove, Puppet to a father's anger, minion to a nabob's love!