guinea pig

英 [ˈɡɪni pɪɡ]

美 [ˈɡɪni pɪɡ]

n.  天竺鼠，豚鼠(耳小无尾，常作宠物饲养); 实验对象

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牛津词典

noun

• 天竺鼠，豚鼠（耳小无尾，常作宠物饲养）
  a small animal with short ears and no tail, often kept as a pet
• 实验对象
  a person used in medical or other experiments
  1. Students in fifty schools are to act as guinea pigs for these new teaching methods.
     五十所学校的学生将作为这些新教学法的试验对象。

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 实验对象；试验品
  If someone is used as aguinea pigin an experiment, something is tested on them that has not been tested on people before.
  1. ...a human guinea pig...
     人体实验对象
  2. Nearly 500,000 pupils are to be guinea pigs in a trial run of the new 14-plus exams.
     这种14岁以上学生参加的最新考试将在近50万名学生中试行。
• 天竺鼠；豚鼠
  Aguinea pigis a small furry animal without a tail. Guinea pigs are often kept as pets.

英英释义

noun

• stout-bodied nearly tailless domesticated cavy
  Synonym:Cavia cobaya
• a person who is subjected to experimental or other observational procedures
  1. the subjects for this investigation were selected randomly
  2. the cases that we studied were drawn from two different communities
  Synonym:subjectcase

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