minuscule

英 [ˈmɪnəskjuːl]

美 [ˈmɪnəskjuːl]

adj.  极小的; 微小的

复数：minuscules　

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BNC.18985 / COCA.13257

牛津词典

adj.

• 极小的；微小的
  extremely small

柯林斯词典

• ADJ 极小的;微小的
  If you describe something asminuscule, you mean that it is very small.
  1. The film was shot in 17 days, a minuscule amount of time.
     这部电影仅用短短的17天便拍摄完毕。

英英释义

noun

• a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
• the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
  Synonym:small letterlowercaselower-case letter

adj

• very small
  1. a minuscule kitchen
  2. a minuscule amount of rain fell
  Synonym:miniscule
• lowercase
  1. little a
  2. small a
  3. e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters
  Synonym:littlesmall
• of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial
  Synonym:minuscular

双语例句

• It was a minuscule amount of money – but for this woman, the coin represented a meal.
  我吃惊地看着硬币，它的面额很低&但对那个女人而言，这就是一顿饭！
• The difference between Harvard and Caltech last year was minuscule, Baty said in a telephone interview. Whats happened this year is Caltech has seen a significant increase in its research income.
  在电话采访中Baty表示在去年的时候哈佛和加州理工的差距已经是非常小了，而今年最大的变化是加州理工获得了很大的研究收入的增长。
• China has opened only tiny apertures for foreign investors in its domestic capital markets, promoting instead an offshore renminbi capital market that is as yet minuscule in comparison with its US dollar counterpart.
  中国在国内资本市场只为外国投资者开了一个小孔，却努力推进人民币离岸资本市场的发展，而与美元资本市场相比，它的规模仍微不足道。
• But the numbers are minuscule compared with the 26 billion card transactions that occur each year according to a 2013 study by the Federal Reserve Bank.
  但美联储（FederalReserve）2013年的研究显示，每年的银行卡交易数量为260亿笔。和后者相比，比特币交易微不足道。
• First, the risks of default, always minuscule, have been removed.
  首先，一向微乎其微的违约风险如今已经消除。
• The effect is so minuscule, however, that it can't be seen with current technology on a single image of jets from a supermassive black hole.
  然而，这种影响是极其微小的，利用目前的技术在单一的图像上无法看到磁场对超级黑洞射流的影响。
• The muscle you gain is minuscule compared with the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body.
  你获得的肌肉相对于全身的骨骼肌来说只是一小部分。
• The minuscule cash portion of the bonuses for top performers is a cause for concern at the bank, since many employees rely on the February infusion of cash to pay for apartments in Manhattan and tuition at private schools.
  顶尖业绩者奖金中，现金部分所占比例微小，在银行里引发了担忧，因为许多员工都依赖2月份入帐的现金来支付曼哈顿的公寓和私立学校学费。
• Success or failure often turns on minuscule differences in problem definitions.
  成败往往取决于问题定义的细小差异。
• Proportionate to the possible membership, we represent a minuscule number of hard of hearing people.
  相对于重听人实际总数，我们表现出的只是一个极小的数字。