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

• Eight years ago I caught flak from my wife for not voting; I tried pointing out the minuscule impact of a single vote ( mine).
  8年前，我因为没投票而受到了妻子的指责，而我试图以（我的）一张选票影响甚微为自己辩解。
• Astronomers think this effect, although minuscule for Earth, could play a role in the black hole dynamos that power quasars.
  天文学家认为，这种影响，但是对地球微不足道，可在黑洞发电机功率类星体的角色。
• DaimlerChrysler said it would start selling its minuscule two-seater cars in the United States from 2008.
  戴姆勒&克莱斯勒集团称，它将从2008年起开始在美国出售其微型双座轿车。
• You could make something minuscule seem enormous.
  你可以展示一下如何让小东西变大。
• 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。
• 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。
• But, in countries as diverse as Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and Russia, such lending was a minuscule part of commercial real estate finance.
  但在加拿大、中国、日本、墨西哥和俄罗斯等不同国家，这类贷款只占商业地产融资的很小一部分。
• But Iraqi oil still represents just a small percentage of China's oil imports, and a minuscule portion of its overall energy supply.
  但从伊拉克进口的石油占中国石油进口量的比例依然很小，在中国能源供应总量中的占比更小。
• 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。