minuscule

英 [ˈmɪnəskjuːl]

美 [ˈmɪnəskjuːl]

adj.  极小的; 微小的

复数：minuscules　

TOEFLGRE

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

• Last year, European firms accounted for 80 per cent of all credit insurance purchases, compared with a minuscule 3 per cent share attributed to Asia-based buyers.
  去年，在购买的所有信用保险中，欧洲企业占了80%，相比之下，亚洲买家仅占了微不足道的3%。
• 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。
• The share for any individual college is minuscule, of course.
  当然了，单看任何一家大学，这一比例都微乎其微。
• But although tea production in America is minuscule, consumption is booming.
  尽管美国茶产量很少，但是消费需求却是在高涨。
• 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！
• After all, what business does a large creature like an elephant have to fear from a minuscule mouse?
  说到底，一个像大象这样的大家伙，究竟为什么要害怕像小老鼠这样一个小不点儿呢？
• 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。
• 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, 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。
• SWIG, though, does the hard work for you& with a minuscule amount of pseudo-code.
  但SWIG可以帮您完成这一艰苦工作&并且只需采用少量的伪代码。