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.
在麦克斯韦尔最初的思考实验里，侏儒按照空气分子的初始速度把分子放在了两个互相连接的盒子里。
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).
这通常被比作感觉侏儒，一个被扭曲的人体图像在脑中映射，这幅图中，生殖器就在脚附近。
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.
根据古人的想法，在每个男人身体里,不只是游来游去的小精子，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