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#每日学单词# Halfling /ˈhɑːflɪŋ/ 名词:1.(originally in stories by J. R. R. Tolkien) a member of an imaginary race of small people. (最早出现在托尔金的故事中)一个虚构的矮小的种族,例:‘Bilbo Baggins lived until age 131, making him the second oldest halfling of all time’

2. (in fantasy fiction) a being who is the offspring of a human and a member of another race.(在奇幻小说)人和其他种族的混血,例: ‘sometimes Ana wondered whether he might be a halfling like her, with a human father and
elf mother’

3. A person who is not yet fully grown. 尚未完全成熟的人,例:‘in this service he remained until he was nineteen, still serving in the capacity of
halfling, with only a halfling's fee’