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guinea pig

noun
🔊/ˈɡɪni pɪɡ/
🔊/ˈɡɪni pɪɡ/
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  1. a small animal with short ears and no tail, often kept as a pet天竺鼠，豚鼠（耳小无尾，常作宠物饲养）Topics Animalsb1
  2. a person used in medical or other experiments实验对象
    • 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。🔊🔊
    Extra Examples
    • She wants Burke to be the guinea pig in the experiment.她想让伯克做她的实验对象。
    • The company used my client as a human guinea pig.公司把我的当事人当作实验品。
    • Twenty students volunteered to act as guinea pigs.20 个学生自愿做实验对象。
    Topics Scientific researchc1
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • human
    verb + guinea pig
    • act as
    • be
    • use somebody as
    • …
    preposition
    • guinea pig for
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