pygmy

• 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

来自希腊语Pygmaios,俾格米人，居住在非洲埃塞俄比亚的小矮人，来自pygme,腕尺，一拳头高，来自pyx,拳头，词源同pugnus（拉丁语，拳头）,punch,pugnacious.

1. an unusually small individual

pygmy

pygmy: [14] Greek pugmé meant ‘fist’ (it may have been related to Latin pugnus ‘fist’, source of English pugnacious). By extension, it was used for a ‘measure of length equal to the distance from the elbows to the knuckles’. From it was derived pugmaíos ‘dwarfish’, which passed into English via Latin pygmaeus. In ancient and medieval times it was used as a noun to designate various apocryphal or mythical races of short stature, but it was not until the late 19th century that it was applied to the people of equatorial Africa who now bear the name.
=> pugnacious

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" (see pugnacious).

Figurative use for "person of small importance" is from 1590s. Believed in 17c. to refer to chimpanzees or orangutans, and occasionally the word was used in this sense. The ancient word was applied by Europeans to the equatorial African race 1863, but the tribes probably were known to the ancients and likely were the original inspiration for the legend. As an adjective from 1590s. Related: Pygmean; Pygmaean.

He regarded them as intellectual pygmies.

他把他们视为知识上的侏儒。

牛津词典

a pygmy shrew

倭鼩鼱

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Reaching a maximum height of 56cm the pygmy goat is essentially a pet.

因为最高仅为56厘米，这种矮种山羊基本上作为宠物来养。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...the pygmy tribes of Papua New Guinea.

巴布亚新几内亚的俾格米人部落

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He's a pygmy when compared with great musicians.

他和伟大的音乐家相比就成了侏儒.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

He's a pygmy compared with you.

和你相比他就算是个侏儒了.

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The various pygmy groups are thus the products of harshcircumstances.

各种侏儒种群都是残酷环境的产物.

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Sales assistant : Well , you could get that pygmy warrior over there.

呃.你可以买那边的侏儒武士像.

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Rare newborn albino Pygmy Marmoset monkeys perched on a zookeeper's fingers.

稀有的新出生白子侏儒狨猴栖息在一位动物园管理员的手指上.

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In fact, ideally we'd have pygmy people, too.

事实上, 最理想的是我们能连人也弄成是侏儒的.

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Pygmy flying squirrel western cowboy adventure in mind.

牛仔小飞鼠西部冒险记.

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I thought, " Perhaps he is a pygmy. "

我想: “ 也许是个侏儒. ”

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Yea, I loved you all, the giant and the pygmy, the leper and the anointed.

是的, 我爱你们所有人, 巨人与侏儒, 被人厌恶的麻疯病人和涂上油脂的圣人.

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Hoped that my volunteering services, can offer my one's pygmy effort for your firm.

希望我的毛遂自荐, 能为贵公司奉献我的绵薄之力.

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Sadly this is an age of grey bosses and pygmy leaders.

可悲的是,现在是一个灰色老板和侏儒领导的时代.

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The animals in effect became pygmy elephants.

而结果,这些象群成了今天的矮象.

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Until now, babbling had been observed only in humans and a few primates pygmy marmosets.

到目前为止牙牙学语只在人类和一些灵长类动物中发现过.

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In our present pygmy state love is indeed a stranger to most people.

在我们当前侏儒式的时代,爱确实对很多人来说是一个陌生人.

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He is a pygmy compared with you .

和你相比他就算是个侏儒了。

辞典例句

Reaching a maximum height of 56cm the pygmy goat is essentially a pet.

因为最高仅为56厘米，这种矮种山羊基本上作为宠物来养。

柯林斯例句