gnomes

英 [ˈnəʊmiːz]

美 [noʊmz]

n.  (神话故事中的)地下宝藏守护神; (装饰花园的)守护精灵像
gnome的复数

柯林斯词典

• 地精，土地神（童话故事中的神灵，英国人有时在花园中摆放小的土地神雕像）
  In children's stories, agnomeis an imaginary creature that is like a tiny old man with a beard and pointed hat. In Britain people sometimes have small statues of gnomes in their gardens.

双语例句

• Gnomes are an essence of human wisdom.
  格言是人类智慧的精华。
• • "what do you think of garden gnomes?"
  •“你对花园小矮人有什么看法？”
• I must have looked as if I was having second thoughts because I was approached by an elderly man who retained a certain dignity despite wearing just flip-flops and a thick white felt hat of the kind favoured by garden gnomes.
  我必须装着好像是经过深思熟虑的，因为一名老翁来到了我的面前。老人保持着一定程度的尊严，尽管只他穿着拖鞋和一顶厚厚的白色毡帽，花园中侏儒雕塑常带的那种。
• He works at a scientific institute where linguists, literature scholars, historians, sociologists, economists, and other scholars investigate everything that has to do with gnomes.
  他在一家科学机构工作，在那里有语言学家，文学学者，历史学家，社会学家，经济学家和其他学者探讨一切有关侏儒的事。
• But when they woke, everything was just the same; the gnomes still rowing, the ship still gliding on, still dead blackness ahead.
  但等他们醒来时，一切还是一样，小精灵依然在划桨，船依然在悄悄前进，前面依然是一团漆黑。
• I'm still not super-clear in my head on the differences between a hub, router and switch and how it relates to the gnomes that live inside of each.
  我的脑袋里还是非常地不明白集线器，路由器和交换机之间的区别，并且也不明白他们怎么在里面联系起来的。
• You see, we're all poor gnomes from Bism whom the Witch has called up here by magic to work for her.
  你瞧，我们都是从比斯姆国来的可怜的小精灵，是女巫用魔法把我们招到这儿来为她干活的。
• Gnomes will also start in Dun Morogh, since their homeland has been destroyed by an ancient evil.
  侏儒也将起始于丹莫罗，因为他们的家园被远古的恶魔们摧毁了。
• 84A group of gnomes trains stronger and fiercer riding dogs than anyone else in the world.
  一群侏儒训练了世界上最强壮最凶猛的骑乘用犬。
• It was his idea that, during the trogg invasion, the gnomes shut themselves from the world.
  他的想法是，在穴居人入侵期间，侏儒们把自己与世界隔离。