白baak6老lou5鼠syu2

English

1. a guinea pig, a person or thing used as a subject for experiment [written and colloquial]
2. white rat in a laboratory; lab rat
3. test subject; person being as a subject for experiment

粵語 — Cantonese

1. 自然科學、心理學實驗中畀人研究嘅白色老鼠，通常係褐鼠或者小家鼠（量詞：隻）
2. 借代做試驗品或者試驗對象

Examples

• 好多實驗室都準備減少用白老鼠。

  Laboratories tend to reduce the use of white rats in future. ----

• 唔好當自己係白老鼠亂咁食藥減肥啦。

  Don't try weight loss pills yourself like a laboratory rat.

• 黑猫在吃一只白老鼠。

  The black cat is eating a white rat.

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