gnome
pronunciation
UK [nəʊm]
US [noʊm]
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- n.
- 格言
- 土地神
- 侏儒
Word Origin
gnome 地下宝藏守护神
词源不确定。可能来自希腊语*genomos, 地下居住者，来自ge-, 土地，词源同geology. -nomos, 居住，词源同nomad. 或词源同gnomic, know, 有见解，有知识的。
Example
- 1. He said some media outlets had refused to publish the strip because it refers to medvedev as a " gnome " .
- 他说，一些媒体已经拒绝出版这本连环画，因为它把梅德韦杰夫比作了“侏儒”。
- 2. A gnome , rumpelstiltskin , offers to do the job for her . But , once she marries , he says , she must give him her first child .
- 一位地精，就是侏儒怪提出帮她将稻草纺成金子，条件是她必须将婚后生的第一个孩子交给他。
- 3. A nomadic gnome is travelling the world to highlight a little-known quirk of our planet : gravity changes depending on where you are .
- 一名旅行小矮人正在游历世界，展示我们星球上鲜为人知的奇事：万有引力会根据你的位置而改变。
- 4. That distance , plus some extra gravity-counterbalancing inertia from the earth 's spin , means that you - or a gnome - would weigh more at the south pole than in hawaii .
- 这个距离，加上弥补地球转动惯性额外的重力，意味着你或小矮人在南极要比在夏威夷重。
- 5. It certainly makes you wonder what all those processor cycles are doing in kde and gnome .
- 它一定会让你想知道gnome和kde这些家伙都把处理器拿来干嘛了。
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