(noun.) one of a race of intelligent horses who ruled the Yahoos in a novel by Jonathan Swift.
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双语例句
The author conducted by a Houyhnhnm to his house. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Then the bay tried me with a second word, much harder to be pronounced; but reducing it to the English orthography, may be spelt thus, _Houyhnhnm_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He was sure no _Houyhnhnm_ alive could make such a vessel, nor would trust _Yahoos_ to manage it. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The word _Houyhnhnm_, in their tongue, signifies a _horse_, and, in its etymology, the _perfection of nature_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The Houyhnhnm's notion of truth and falsehood. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The Houyhnhnm, his master, assists in teaching him. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The author meets two Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
I paid my respects to the rest of the _Houyhnhnms_ in his honour's company; then getting into my canoe, I pushed off from shore. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The food of the Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
He asked me, who made the ship, and how it was possible that the _Houyhnhnms_ of my country would leave it to the management of brutes? 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
A grand debate at the general assembly of the _Houyhnhnms_, and how it was determined. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The great virtues of the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The _Houyhnhnms_ have no letters, and consequently their knowledge is all traditional. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The learning of the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
So that controversies, wranglings, disputes, and positiveness, in false or dubious propositions, are evils unknown among the _Houyhnhnms_. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
But, if these censurers were better acquainted with the noble and courteous disposition of the _Houyhnhnms_, they would soon change their opinion. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Several Houyhnhnms of quality come out of curiosity to see the author. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
The author's economy, and happy life, among the Houyhnhnms. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.