Dwarf

(noun.) a plant or animal that is atypically small.

(noun.) a person who is markedly small.

(verb.) check the growth of; 'the lack of sunlight dwarfed these pines'.

整理:梅纳德

• Is a new dress, a new custom, a new singer, a new dancer, a new form of jewellery, a new dwarf or giant, a new chapel, a new anything, to be set up? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• I particularly recollect his case, from his being took by a dwarf. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Where would he hide himself when the dwarf with seven fingers on each hand, no upper lip, and his under-jaw gone, came down in his majesty? 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The more immediate scenery consisted of fields and farm-houses outside the car and a monster-headed dwarf and a moustached woman inside it. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• You should have said, short as a dwarf, returned Jacques Two. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The dense brown line of the trees on the opposite bank appeared above it, like a dwarf forest floating in the sky. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• If you want dwarfs--I mean just a few dwarfs for a curiosity--go to Genoa. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There may be giants and dwarfs,' the first peasant said. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Our words are giants when they do us an injury, and dwarfs when they do us a service. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• There are plenty of dwarfs all over Italy, but it did seem to me that in Milan the crop was luxuriant. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

校对:韦恩