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A toy figure of a person or animal that you move by hand or with strings, often used in children's shows. It's also used seriously and a bit critically for a person or government that looks like they're in charge but is actually being controlled by someone else behind the scenes — 'a puppet government.'
木偶、布偶（玩具、戲偶）；傀儡（比喻被操控、沒有實權的政府或人物，這是新聞中常見的用法）
組成from an old word for 'doll' — the same old root also gives us 'pupil' (the small dark part of your eye), because people once compared the tiny reflection you see in someone's eye to a little doll
同家族的字
- pupilshares the same old root meaning 'little doll,' referring to the small reflection seen in someone's eye
原始詞典資料5 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
puppetnoun/ˈpʌpɪt/
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Any small model of a person or animal able to be moved by strings or rods, or in the form of a glove.
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A person, country, etc, controlled by another.
- These men , from no worse motive that could be discovered than a thirst after knowledge beyond their sphere , committed burglary upon the barn in which the puppets had been consigned to repose
- Every act of a Roman, from birth to death, from dawn to night, was controlled and supervised by some presiding deity. Man was thus virtually a symbolic puppet in the hands of the Roman pantheon.
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obsoleteA poppet; a small image in the human form; a doll.
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engineeringnatural-sciencesphysical-sciencesThe upright support for the bearing of the spindle in a lathe.
puppetverb/ˈpʌpɪt/
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To control or manipulate like a puppet.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。