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

• 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。
• 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。
• You could make something minuscule seem enormous.
  你可以展示一下如何让小东西变大。
• Penetration in China is still minuscule, at 3 per cent of the population.
  中国的汽车普及率仍微不足道，仅达到总人口的3%。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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。
• 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！
• Don't worry. Most of them are minuscule in size.
  但是不用担心，它们中的绝大多数体积都非常小。
• Only minuscule quantities of silver are used and there is no waste, unlike chemical-etching processes.
  而且这也不像化学腐蚀加工方法那样，它仅需要非常少的银，并且没有浪费。