a small animal with short ears and no tail, often kept as a pet Topics Animalsb1天竺鼠,豚鼠(耳小无尾,常作宠物饲养) 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 ExamplesTopics Scientific researchc1She 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。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- human
- act as
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- guinea pig for