If someone is used as a guinea pig, new ideas or products are tested on them. Often times it to discover the effect of drugs in human.

Examples: 1) They’re looking for volunteers to act as guinea pigs for a new AIDS vaccine.

2) They’re looking for students to be guinea pigs in their research into the common cold.

(New York Times, 6/17, 2017)

In Whole Foods, Bezos Gets a Sustainably Sourced Guinea Pig

Jeff Bezos, Amazon’s founder and chief executive, is a committed experimentalist. His main way of deciding what Amazon should do next is to try stuff out, see what works, and do more of that.

So the best way to think of this deal is to look at Whole Foods as a kind of guinea pig for Amazon –a pricey, organically sourced one, perhaps, but a guinea pig all the same.

亞馬遜網站的創辦人和總裁貝佐斯十足是個實驗派人物，他對於亞馬遜的未來決策，都是先做一些嘗試，看看哪種方式最好，然後就多做一些。

所以(亞馬遜併購健全食品連鎖超市)這樁交易，可看作是這個連鎖超市會成為亞馬遜的白老鼠，一隻昂貴並且有機的白老鼠，不過仍然是白老鼠。

(Bloomberg, 4/20, 2017)

“Investors should not use themselves as guinea pigs for new financial products like broker platforms,” said Charles Rotblut, vice president of the American Association of Individual Investors, a nonprofit education and research group.

美國個人投資者協會是個非營利的教育以及研究組織。它的副總裁提出忠告，[投資人不應該讓自己成為新型金融產品的白老鼠，比如說一些證券交易網站。]

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