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 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。
• 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 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。
• As light from the sun hits the sail, it imparts a minuscule but continuous acceleration.
  太阳光撞击帆的同时会带来一个细微但却持续的加速。
• 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 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。
• Everything from milk to cars was rationed; growth was minuscule; the youth was frustrated and all the bright doctors and engineers emigrated to America.
  从牛奶到汽车，每件东西都是限量供应；经济增长微乎其微；年轻人感到沮丧；所有出色的医生和工程师都移民到了美国。
• 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。
• 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。