Puppet

(noun.) a doll with a hollow head of a person or animal and a cloth body; intended to fit over the hand and be manipulated with the fingers.

(noun.) a small figure of a person operated from above with strings by a puppeteer.

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• The great Mogul, nominally their overlord, became in effect their puppet. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• Ah, bah, old intriguer, crooked little puppet! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Alaric made a puppet of the eastern monarch and Stilicho of the western. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The doll--the puppet--the manikin--the poor inferior creature! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• But don't you on that account come talking to me as if I was your doll and puppet, because I am not. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• And Miss Ingram had looked down at her with a mocking air, and exclaimed, Oh, what a little puppet! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Lydgate began to feel this sort of consciousness unpleasant and one day looked down, or anywhere, like an ill-worked puppet. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• While the routineers see machinery and precedents revolving with mankind as puppets, he puts the deliberate, conscious, willing individual at the center of his philosophy. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• But aside from the disappearance of those entertaining puppets, all else is gain in the creation of this new art. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• The strong, masterful personality of Holmes dominated the tragic scene, and all were equally puppets in his hands. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• He is proud to think that his Puppets have given satisfaction to the very best company in this empire. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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