dwarf
英 [dwɔ:f] 美 [dwɔrf]

n.

侏儒，矮子；矮小的动物（植物）；[天]矮星；

vt.

（使）显得矮小；使（发育，智能等）受阻碍；使相形见绌；

vi.

变矮小；

adj.

矮小的；

变形

复数：dwarvesdwarfs过去式：dwarfed过去分词：dwarfed现在分词：dwarfing第三人称单数：dwarfs

双语释义

n.(名词)

1. [C]矮子 person, animal or plant that is much smaller than the normal
2. [C]有魔法的小矮人 creature like a very small man with magic powers

v.(动词)

1. vt. 显得矮小; 使相形见绌 make sb/sth seem small by contrast or distance

英英释义

dwarf[ dwɔ:f ]

• n.
  • a person who is markedly small

    同义词：midgetnanus

  • a legendary creature resembling a tiny old man; lives in the depths of the earth and guards buried treasure

    同义词：gnome

• v.
  • make appear small by comparison

    同义词：shadowovershadow

  • check the growth of

    "the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines"

词汇搭配

用作动词 (v.)～+名词

• dwarf a little dinghy使小船显得小
• dwarf other dramatists使其他剧作家相形见绌

词组短语

white dwarf[天]白矮星

dwarf star矮星

brown dwarf棕矮星；褐矮星

red dwarf红矮星（表面温度较低且亮度较弱的恒星）

双语例句

用作名词(n.)

1. You are a giant of words and dwarf of action.
   你是言词的巨人,行动的矮子。
2. There is a dwarf apple tree in our garden.
   在我们的花园里有一棵矮苹果树。
3. The kind dwarf asked the little princess to have dinner with him.
   善良的小矮人邀请小公主和他一起吃晚饭。
4. A dwarf on a giant's shoulders sees further of the two.
   侏儒站在巨人肩上要比两个人看得远。

用作及物动词(vt.)

1. Each innovation destined to dwarf the extensive accomplishment of the Greeks-Euclidean geometry.
   每一个创新都注定希腊人的巨大成就--欧几里德几何相形见绌。
2. As China's income per head catches up, its economy will soon dwarf those of its Asian neighbors.
   随着中国的人均收入急起直追，它的经济不久将使其亚洲邻国相形见绌。

用作不及物动词(vi.)

1. They act out their dramas in a setting whose wilderness immensity both dwarf and ennobles whatever they achieve
   他们在荒原上奠定了他们的事业，而广阔无际的天地既使他们的成就显得渺小，也显得崇高。

权威例句

DWARF GALAXIES OF THE LOCAL GROUP
Dwarf mice and the ageing process.
A dwarf satellite galaxy in Sagittarius
The origin of dwarf galaxies, cold dark matter, and biased galaxy formation
Evolutionary Medicine: From Dwarf Model Systems to Healthy Centenarians?
Accreting white dwarf models of Type I supernovae. III - Carbon deflagration supernovae
Globular Cluster Systems in Dwarf Elliptical Galaxies. II. The Virgo Cluster
Dwarf locus mutants lacking three pituitary cell types result from mutations in the POU-domain gene pit-1.
Phylogenetic relationships of the dwarf boas and a comparison of Bayesian and bootstrap measures of phylogenetic support.
Meeting the Cool Neighbors. IV. 2MASS 1835+32, a Newly Discovered M8.5 Dwarf within 6 Parsecs of the Sun