midget

英 ['m?d??t] 美['m?d??t]

TEM8GRE暢通詞匯

復(fù)數(shù):?midgets;

1. 諧音“迷(mini)極的”---迷你(mini)到極點(diǎn)的。

midget 侏儒，矮人

來(lái)自midge,小蟲(chóng)，蠓，-et,小詞后綴。比喻用法。

midget: midget: see mosquito
midget (n.): as a type of tiny biting insect, 1839, American English, from midge, perhaps with diminutive suffix -et.
Dr. Webster is in error in saying the word "midge" is "not in use" at the present day. In the neighboring Green mountain districts, one or more most annoying species of Simulium that there abound, are daily designated in common conversation as the midges, or, as the name is often corrupted, the midgets. From Dr. Harris' treatise it appears that the same name is in popular use for the same insects in Maine. The term is limited in this country, we believe, exclusively to those minute insects, smaller than the musketoe, which suck the blood of other animals. ["Transactions of the New-York State Agricultural Society," vol. VI, Albany, 1847]
Transferred sense of "very small person" is attested by 1854. It is also noted mid-19c. as a pet form of Margaret.

2. From 1942 onward I worked on the first anti - midget - submarine detection systems.: 從1942年往后,我研究了頭一批反小型潛艇的探測(cè)系統(tǒng).

3. The Tirpitz had been disabled by the audacious and heroic attack of our midget submarines.: “提爾古茨”號(hào)戰(zhàn)列艦由于我們小型潛艇發(fā)動(dòng)的大膽而英勇的襲擊而喪失了戰(zhàn)斗力.

4. I don't know whether to look for a giant or a midget.: 我不知道現(xiàn)在該去找的是巨人還是侏儒.

5. Brazil nuts - inshell and shelled - extra - large , large, medium, midget sizes.: 巴西堅(jiān)果 -- 帶殼和去殼的 -- 超大型、大型、中型、小型.