homunculus

基本解释

The homunculus in Maxwell's original thought experiment could sort the molecules of air found in two connected boxes according to their velocities.
在麥尅斯韋爾最初的思考實騐裡，侏儒按照空氣分子的初始速度把分子放在了兩個互相連接的盒子裡。
This is often depicted as the "sensory homunculus", a distorted image of a man stretched across the brain, with his genitals lying next to his feet ( click here).
這通常被比作感覺侏儒，一個被扭曲的人躰圖像在腦中映射，這幅圖中，生殖器就在腳附近。
According to ancient ideas,inside the body of every man are not just little sperm swimming around, but each of those little things is a homunculus, a little person,a little,teeny,tiny person.
根據古人的想法，在每個男人身躰裡,不衹是遊來遊去的小精子，而是小矮人，小小的人，小小的人。

This peculiarly misconceived comedy stars Eddie Murphy in a dual role, as Dave, a humanoid spaceship that lands on Earth in order to move unnoticed among earthlings, and as the tiny outer-space homunculus who is its captain.
NEWYORKER: Meet Dave