英语释义

1. a person of unusually small stature (see stature sense 1) especially a person whose height does not exceed 4' 10" and is typically less than 4' 5"

2. an animal or plant much below normal size

3. a small legendary manlike being who is usually misshapen and ugly and skilled as a craftsman

4. a star (such as the sun) of ordinary or low luminosity and relatively small mass and size

5. an insignificant person
a literary dwarf

6. to cause to appear smaller or to seem inferior
dwarfed by his older brother has dwarfed the achievements of her predecessors

7. to restrict the growth of stunt
children dwarfed by malnutrition

8. to become smaller

9. low-growing in habit
a dwarf peach tree dwarfer forms of citrus

10. a creature that looks like a small man and that often lives underground and has magical powers

11. a person who is much smaller than most people because of a medical condition

12. to make (something) look very small or unimportant when compared with something else

13. smaller than normal size

14. a person, animal, or plant much smaller than normal size

15. a creature in legends that is usually pictured as a small person who is skilled at some craft

16. to cause to appear smaller Our car was dwarfed by the giant redwood trees.

17. of less than the usual size
dwarf pine trees

18. a person of unusually small stature especially a person whose height does not exceed 4 feet 10 inches (1.47 meters) and is typically less than 4 feet 5 inches (1.35 meters)

19. an animal much below normal size

20. to restrict the growth of stunt

片语

white dwarf[天] 白矮星

dwarfing apple矮化苹果

Dwarfing gene矮秆基因

dwarfing genes矮秆基因

Hardy dwarfing抗寒矮化

red dwarf[天] 红矮星（表面温度较低且亮度较弱的恒星）

brown dwarf棕矮星；褐矮星

dwarfing technique矮化技术

dwarfing ability致矮力

dwarf star[天] 矮星

dwarfing culture矮化栽培

dwarfing stocks矮化砧木

Dwarfing breeding矮化育种

英汉例句

• As you approach Shanghai from the airport, the vertiginous tower (shaped rather like a bottle opener) is impossible to miss, looming above the city and dwarfing Pudong「s multitude of skyscrapers.

  当人们从机场进入上海时，不可能不看到这幢令人晕眩的高楼，它的像开瓶器样子的身影矗立在浦东众多的摩天大楼之上。

• The dwarfing degree of SH interstocks could affect the discolor index and the contents of chlorophyll, amylum, and soluble sugar.

  SH系中间砧的矮化程度影响红富士苹果叶片的变色指数以及叶绿素、可溶性糖、淀粉的含量。

• She found the number of species is dwindling and some species are dwarfing due to selection pressure because only the smallest flowers remain unpicked.

  她发现那些种类在缩小和矮化病其原因在选择的压力因为只有很小的花保留未摘。

• Understanding the effects of wheat dwarfing genes on coleoptile length and plant height is crucial for the proper utilization of dwarfing genes in yield improvement of wheat.

  明确赤霉素敏感性不同的矮秆基因对小麦株高和胚芽鞘长度的效应，促进小麦不同矮秆基因的合理利用。

• About 11 indices of dwarfing effect in 50 citrus species and varieties were studied.

  对柑桔50个品种类型应用11种矮化效应预选指标进行测试。

• Sichuan province has 107 million people, dwarfing Nigeria s population of 96 million.

  四川省有人口1亿零7百万，超过尼日利亚的9千6百万人口。

• Spending on health is expected to rise to 10%, dwarfing all other categories of spending.

  医疗开支有望提升至10%，高于其他方面的支出。

• The artist purposefully exaggerates the student’s body to emphasize his prodigality, while dwarfing his parents to indicate their hardship.

  作画者故意夸张了学生的身体大小从而强调了他的铺张生活，同时缩小了他父母的身体大小来体现他们的辛苦。

• Micro-blogging has been growing rapidly, dwarfing the many other forms of social networking that came into being only three or four years ago.

  微博的发展非常迅速，它的出现使近三、四年的各种网络社交方式都黯然失色。

• To make Hello sauce, which has to be stored at room temperature, he runs a set of generators, dwarfing all other machinery, for eight hours a day.

  「你好」牌烧烤酱需要在室温下才得以保鲜。因此Regabi先生用了一套最好的发电机，一天能发电8小时。

• A badly-made will could also land your relatives with legal fees running into thousands of pounds - dwarfing the fees charged by solicitors to draw up a will correctly.

  漏洞百出的遗嘱可能使你的亲属花费数以千英镑的法律诉讼费，律师收取的写一份正确遗嘱的费用相较法律诉讼费，微不足惜。

• The avatar stretches, catlike, extending to its full height, dwarfing Josh.

  他的阿凡达伸展着，像猫一样，可以看出他的整个身高，这让杰克矮了不少。

• Officials talk of 「incredibly difficult」 cuts ahead, dwarfing in scale the economies made by Margaret Thatcher after she took power in 1979.

  官员们谈到将来的削减开支任务「非常棘手」，这样的言论相应让1979年玛格·丽特·撒切尔掌权后创造的经济规模相形见绌。

• Today, Asia constitutes the largest block of digital users in the world, with Internet usage and mobile usage increasingly dwarfing other parts of the world.

  亚洲拥有世界上最多的数字使用者，尤其是网络及行动电话的覆盖率更其它地区所望尘莫及。

• But there is evidence that the advance to cooking and using knives and forks is leading to crooked teeth and facial dwarfing in humans.

  但有证据显示，烹调以及使用刀叉等餐具的进步使人类的牙齿逐渐变得弯曲不整齐并使人的面部变小。

• If so, gas will be one of its main drivers, dwarfing even earlier resource booms in its scale.

  如果是这样的话，天然气将会成为繁荣的主要驱动力之一，以它的规模甚至使之前的资源激增都相形见绌。

• In the northwest, they are being planted by hedgerow on seedling roots, clonal and dwarfing stocks.

  在西北部地区用灌木树篱把它接在实生砧、无性砧及矮化砧上。

• You never want the deck to overwhelm the house by being too large and dwarfing its surroundings.

  你从来不想甲板上压倒屋内过于庞大和矮化及其周围地区。

• The Sun bent light from distant stars to a focal point where one million-fold magnifications should be possible, dwarfing the abilities of the most powerful telescopes.

  太阳弯曲来自遥远星球的光线到一个焦点。那个焦点可能有一百万倍的放大能力，使最大功率的望远镜相形见绌。

• Take one of their principal objects of desire, two-wheel scooters. Last year about 8m were sold in Indonesia, dwarfing sales in the rest of South-East Asia (1.7m in Thailand, for instance).

  以他们首要追求的目标物之一双轮摩托车为例，去年印尼大约卖了800万辆，使东南亚其他国家的销量相形见绌(如泰国是170万辆)。

• The image shows the outline of a crab in the mouth of the Kent harbour - dwarfing the fishing boats resting on the nearby pier.

  这只出现在肯特港口入海处的巨型蟹，轮廓巨大，令旁边停在码头上的渔船相形见绌。

• Even transportation proves an experience. A double-decker tram provides a bird 」s-eye view of neon signs twisted into huge Chinese characters, dwarfing the human parade below.

  甚至是交通线也展示着一次经历。从双层的有轨电车上鸟瞰霓虹灯镶嵌成巨幅的中文，使下面的人群显得如此的渺小。

相似词

diminutive爱称；指小词；身材极小的人

midget(Midget) （美、加、澳）密德杰特（人名）

mitead （非正式）一点儿，稍许

peewee矮小的

runt(Runt)人名；(捷)伦特

scrub矮小的；临时凑合的；次等的

shrimp虾；小虾；矮小的人

Tom Thumb大拇指汤姆（英民间故事中只有拇指大的主人公）

相反词

behemoth巨大的；高大的

colossus巨像；巨人；巨大的东西

giant巨大的；巨人般的；伟大的

jumbo庞然大物；巨型喷气式飞机；体大而笨拙的人或物

leviathan海中怪兽；庞然大物；巨轮

mammoth巨大的，庞大的；艰巨的

monster巨大的，庞大的

titan巨人；提坦；太阳神