真的那隻小狗
畫面的原版:一隻小到能坐進大腿上那塊地方的狗。
noun · B1
A small pet dog, light enough and calm enough to spend hours sitting on its owner's lap.
小型寵物狗
Someone sits down and a small dog climbs straight up into the space across their legs. It is light, it is quiet, and it has no interest in being anywhere else — it stays exactly where the person puts it, for as long as the person sits there. Hold on to that stillness, because it is what the word carries when it is used about a human being: a place given by someone else, and no wish to leave it.
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真的那隻小狗
畫面的原版:一隻小到能坐進大腿上那塊地方的狗。
noun · B1
A small pet dog, light enough and calm enough to spend hours sitting on its owner's lap.
小型寵物狗
被搬到人身上的那隻狗
同一隻狗換成人:主人變成上司、組織或有權力的一方。
noun · C1
Someone who does whatever a more powerful person or group tells them to do and never argues back. Calling a person this shows that you do not respect them for it.
唯命是從的人