pygmies

英 [ˈpɪgmiz]

美 [ˈpɪgmiz]

n.  俾格米人(生活于非洲和东南亚部分地区，身材矮小); 矮小的人(或物); 侏儒; 弱小者
pygmy的复数

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 特别矮小的
  Pygmymeans belonging to a species of animal which is the smallest of a group of related species.
  1. 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。
• N-COUNT 俾格米人（非洲和东南亚的一种矮小人种）
  Apygmyis a member of a group of very short people who live in Africa or southeast Asia.
  1. ...the pygmy tribes of Papua New Guinea.
     巴布亚新几内亚的俾格米人部落

双语例句

• No one outside Africa can "own" these pygmies.
  任何非洲以外的人都不能“拥有”这些俾格米人。
• Shall a man go and hang himself because he belongs to the race of pygmies, and not be the biggest pygmy that he can?
  难道一个人属于矮子一类便该上吊？为什么他不能做矮子中最长的一人。
• But the pygmies have to be innocent.
  但俾格米人必须是无辜的。
• The original inhabit-ants were a tribe of pygmies.
  原始居民是俾格米部落。
• Some non-African pygmies live outside forests and many live in cool, dry areas.
  一些非-非洲的侏儒生活在丛林以外，很多生活在寒冷、干燥的地区。
• Tom Lantos, then a congressman from California, castigated Yahoo's management, saying'while technologically and financially you are giants, morally you are pygmies.
  来自加州的国会议员兰特斯（TomLantos）当时严厉地批评了雅虎的管理层，称其虽然在技术和经济上是巨人，但却是精神上的侏儒。
• "Getting the Pygmies to do the mapping was fundamentally important to recognizing their rights over the forest," said Scott Poynton, executive director of Tropical Forest Trust ( TFT).
  “让卑格米人绘制地图对承认他们的森林权利来说具有根本的重要意义，”热带雨林信托基金（TFT）的执行董事ScottPoynton说。
• The list also includes a dance, the Argentinian tango, and the singing of the Aka pygmies of the Central African Republic.
  名单中还包括一种舞蹈，阿根廷探戈，和中非共和国的阿卡俾格米人的歌。
• In "economic giant, political pygmies" status of Japan to seize this favorable opportunity, determined to use their own advantages to politics after the Cold War and military power forward, and in the new world pattern occupies an important seat.
  处于经济巨人、政治侏儒地位的日本抓住这一有利时机，决心要利用冷战后的自身优势向政治和军事大国迈进，并且在新的世界格局中占据重要一席。
• We vary in size from the smallest pygmies of South Africa to the tallest Dinaric people of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia.
  人类高矮各异，最矮的有南非的矮人族，最高的有波斯尼亚、西伯利亚、和克罗地亚使用第纳尔货币的民族。