marionettes

英 [ˌmærɪəˈnɛts]

美

n. 牵线木偶
marionette的复数

The show ingeniously combined actors and marionettes.
这个表演创造性地将演员和木偶结合在一起。
One who entertains with and operates puppets or marionettes. Suddenly, the puppet's head began to laugh.
演布袋戏的人欣赏或演木偶或牵线木偶的人突然间，木偶笑了起来。
He saw people as puppets, controlled by some pitiless force much as he, in boyhood, had controlled his own marionettes in his toy theatre, making Mr Punch jibber and squawk in nonsense-language.
他把人看作是木偶，由某种无情的力量操控，就象他自己孩提时代在玩具店里摆弄木偶一样，让Mr.Punch说些没头没尾的话。
"The United States is trying to use the small nations as marionettes," said Ge Fen, a Hangzhou-based television producer.
美国想把一些小国家变成自己的小木偶。格丰，杭州电视台的制片人说。
Tendons hook us to muscles& like strings on marionettes.
肌腱就好比活动木偶的提线，把我们钩在肌肉上。
Early marionettes were controlled by an iron rod instead of strings, a form that survived in Sicily.
早期的提线木偶由铁棒而非细绳来操纵，这种木偶仍存在于西西里。