- trivial or very small极少的; 极小的:
America's banks look Lilliputian in comparison with Japan's.
美国银行和日本的比起来简直就是小巫见大巫。
- a trivial or very small person or thing小人物; 小东西。
词源
early 18th cent.: from the imaginary country of Lilliput in Swift's Gulliver's Travels, inhabited by people 6 inches (15 cm) high, + -IAN.