minuscule
['minəskju:l]
n.小写字
adj.小写字的, 很小的
例句与用法:
He seems to have mistaken a plus for a minus.
他似乎把正号误作负号了。
Six minus two equals four.
六减去二等于四。
Let's consider the pluses and minuses of moving house.
咱们考虑一下搬家的利弊吧。
Seven minus three equals four.
七减三等于四。
I got B minus in the test.
我在考试中得了个B-。
词形变化:
形容词: minuscular | 异体字: miniscule |
n.
【印】(中古抄本的)小写字体; 小写字
a.
1. 小写字的
2. 微小的
minuscule
词形变化:
形容词: minuscular | 异体字: miniscule |
同义词:
little | tiny | minute | microscopic | infinitesimal | miniature | diminutive | small | small letter | miniscule | lowercase | lower-case letter | minuscular |
反义词:
minuscule['minəskju:l; mi'nʌs-]n.1.■(中古流行的)小书写体;小书写体字母2.■西文小写字母3.■【印刷】小字母;小写字;母盘的字母adj.1.■用小书写体的2.■西文字母小写的3.■微小的;微不足道的;非常小的,不重要的,极小的(与majuscule相反)
minusculeminuscule[miˈnʌskju:l]n.1.■(中古抄本的)小写字体, 小写字2.■【刷】小字
词性变化minuscule[miˈnʌskju:l]adj.1.■用小字写的, 小字的; 微小的
[ˈmɪnəskjuːl]
adjective
- extremely small; tiny
非常小的,微小的
a minuscule fragment of DNA.
极小的DNA片断。
■(informal)so small as to be negligible or insufficient
(非正式)小得可忽略不计的;微不足道的
he believed the risk of infection was minuscule.
他相信感染的危险是极小的。 - of or in lower-case letters, as distinct from capitals or uncials
(字母)小写的
■of or in a small cursive script of the Roman alphabet, with ascenders and descenders, developed in the 7th century ad
罗马花体小写字母的
- [mass noun]minuscule script
小写字体
■[count noun]a small or lower-case letter
小写字母
minuscular
[mɪˈnʌskjʊlə]
adjective
语源
- early 18th cent.: from French, from Latin minuscula (littera) 'somewhat smaller (letter')
- The correct spelling is minuscule rather than miniscule. The latter is a common error, which has arisen by analogy with other words beginning with mini-, where the meaning is similarly ‘very small’
minuscule
名词 minuscule:
the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case
同义词:small letter, lowercase, lower-case letter
a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts
形容词 minuscule:
of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial; 7th to 9th centuries
同义词:minuscular
lowercase
very small
同义词:miniscule
minuscule
■In 2006, the Bush administration approed minuscule increases or een cuts for funding of biomedical research.
2006年,布什政府批准小量增加乃至减少对生物医学研究项目的资金。
■For more than 20 years, the leading contender in the quest for unification has been string theory, which posits that the fundamental particles and forces are actually minuscule strings of energy.
20多年前,弦论在大统一理论中独领风骚,它假定宇宙最基本的粒子和力都是微小的能量弦。
■quot;The relative attractiveness of its residents is only a minuscule factor in evaluating a city's merit."
“另外,居民是否具有魅力只是评价一座城市的一个很小的因素。”
■” Like nanoscale magnetic crystals, these minuscule dots have much to offer biomedical researchers.
一如奈米尺度的磁性颗粒,这些量子点对生物医学的研究者可是有很大的用处。
■Tragically, love isn't as effective as price mechanism in allocating resources.The chance of instantaneous sparkles lasting a life time is minuscule.
不过,资源配置最优化不是爱情的长处,爱情常常使人把一分一秒错觉成今生今世;
■The Control Mechanism of Life Cycle of Two Crickets, Tartarogryllus Minuscule and Teleogryllus Emma
两种蟋蟀生活史的季节调控机理
■Every aspect of a rail incident is explored in minuscule detail, while the daily death toll on the roads receives barely a whisper.
人们对每件列车的意外事故总是刨根问底,而对天天在公路上付出的死亡代价只略提一二。
■From these minuscule shifts, the team estimated that the planet is about three times the mass of Jupiter, and orbits its star at a distance slightly greater than that between Mars and the sun.
从这些极小的变化中,他所在的工作小组估测这颗行星的质量是木星的三倍,它的轨道距离恒星的距离比火星到太阳的距离略长。
■Since then, bilateral trade has been reduced to minuscule levels.
从那时起,日韩双边贸易降至最低点。
■"The chance we produce a black hole is minuscule , it's one of the wildest speculations . But even if we do, it can't swallow up the earth," he said.
他说:“有可能在极小的时间里知道一个黑洞,这是一个不切实际的推出。不过,一旦我们这样做了,它也不可能吞噬地球”
■But the city-state with a population of just 4 million, and small neighbors in South East Asia, is too minuscule to dream of rivaling New York or London.
但作为一个仅仅400万人口,又没有足够多的领国的东南亚小国,想要跟纽约或者伦敦为敌还是有些不自量力。
■But the country had just emerged from two decades of rule by a bureaucratic military regime, research funding was minuscule, and young scientists had few prospects for work.
但巴西当时刚从20多年来官僚的军事政权统治下复苏,研究经费微薄,年轻科学家前景渺茫。
■That amount of space, unless it's broken up in to minuscule segments, can't be properly attributed to the actual worth of the item.
但是,这种空间大小其实对物品的价值是做不了什么贡献的,如果不被分割成可以忽视的小单元的话。
■As a man who spent time during World War II on a minuscule South Pacific island, I recognized the symptoms of acute homesickness
作为一个二战期间曾在南太平洋小岛上服过役的老兵,我听得出他非常想家。
■You can book one of these minuscule rooms at the Washington Jefferson Hotel for 99 bucks, a bargain for midtown Manhattan.
你只要花九十九美元,便可以在华盛顿杰佛逊旅馆订到像这样的房间,这在曼哈顿城中区算便宜的了。
■carolingian minuscule
加洛林体
■Even before the proliferation crisis, the International Crisis Group, a think-tank, concluded from research in China that its food aid was minuscule.
即使在此次核扩散危机之前,智库“国际危机组织”通过在中国开展研究后认为,中国所提供的粮食援助极少。
■Even minuscule changes in the wording of diplomatic statements on the subject are often viewed as transformative on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.
即使外交声明中最微小的变化也会被视为对海峡两边政策的改变。
■This manuscript was written in a minuscule script.
原稿是用很小的字体写的。
■The relative attractiveness of its residents is only a minuscule factor in evaluating a city's merit.
另外,居民是否具有魅力只是评价一座城市的一个很小的因素。
■The muscle you gain is minuscule compared with the total amount of skeletal muscle in the body.
和肌肉有很低的新陈代谢率时,它的休息。
■Since speaking parts were mandatory, I had already received the most minuscule role in the entire play.
因为演讲是强制性的,我曾经演过在整个演出当中最为卑微的角色。
■It is hard to imagine chief constables being bossed around by anonymous people elected on a minuscule turnout.
因此很难想象那些被为数不多的人选举出来的警员被人一群无名无姓的人指使来指使去。
■The economic benefits to those who lobbied for protection, however, are minuscule.
国内制造商几乎已经放弃了低端的轮胎制造市场。
■Within two decades, the minuscule transmitters are expected to replace the familiar bar codes now found on most products.
在二十年内,这种微型信号发射装置将取代大家熟悉的条形码,如今条形码可在大多数商品上面见到。
■The minuscule male has chosen a life basically as a sex organ: the major occupants of its body cavity are its testes.
基本上那些小小的雄性鮟鱇鱼,选择成为生殖器官来度过一生:睪丸佔了牠们体内大部份的空间。
■Rafael Laveaga, a apokesman for the Mexican Embassy in Washington, said the number of food safety problems from Mexican imports was minuscule given the huge volume of trade.
墨西哥驻华盛顿大使馆发言人说,出现安全问题的食品的数量比起墨西哥大量的贸易额,只占了很小的一部分。
■If there is the prediction of the slightest chance of even the most minuscule accumulation of snow, your presence is required at the local grocery store.
如果天气预报说,有一点点可能会积一点小雪的话,那你就要赶快去超市买东西.你需不需要什么东西倒无所谓,反正你要去就对了.
■The next few years are only a minuscule part of the equation.
如果现在经济疯狂增长,那么代价就是今后增幅会减小。
■If the plane has empty seats,the cost of adding one more passenger is minuscule.
如果飞机有空座位,因为多一个顾客而增加的成本是微乎其微的。
■Anaxagoras called these minuscule particles which have something of everything in them seeds.
安纳萨哥拉斯称呼这些含有"各物的一部分"的"小粒子"为"种子".
■One by one, Zeus searches for a particular code, dips into the corresponding well with a fine, quill-likes probe and picks up a minuscule droplet of liquid DNA.
宙斯一个个地搜寻特定密码,把精细得像羽毛管状的探针插进相匹配的小孔里,再取出液状的DNA微滴。
■Minuscule changes in the squeezing of the sensor trigger far larger changes in the flow of electrons, which makes the sensor extremely sensitive.
对传感器的挤压发生非常微小的变化就能引起大量的电子流,因此传感性相当敏感。
■little a; small a; e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters.
小a;小a;e.e.cumming诗都用小写字母写成。
■A letter written in minuscule.
小书写体字母
■Minuscule: Lower-case letter.
小写:英文的小写字母。
■Progress may have been minuscule, yet developing countries proved major players in the negotiations.
尽管进展可能十分微小,但发展中国家被证明是谈判中的主要角色。
■The minuscule size of the drawings alone could easily explain why Fred and George never saw Peter/Wormtail, and why Lupin never saw the second Harry and Hermione on the map during their time travels.
平面图上的微小图画本身,就可以很容易地解释弗雷德和乔治为什么没有看到彼得/虫尾巴,以及卢平为什么没看到在时间旅行中的第二个哈利和赫敏。
■He received a standing ovation from the minuscule crowd when he went back to the bench.
当他回到长凳时,他从小字母人群收到起立欢迎。
■When you're faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole--and remember the positive things.
当你面对重重困难的时候,要意识到相对于你的整个生命,这些难题其实是微不足道的--铭记你生命中美好的东西。
■When you're faced with so many negative and draining situations, realize how minuscule problems will seem when you view your life as a whole and remember the positive things.
当你面对重重困难的时候,要意识到相对于你的整个生命,这些难题其实是微不足道的--铭记你生命中美好的东西。
■And when compressed by MP3 and similar formats only a minuscule fraction of the actual live event survives.
当压缩mp3和类似格式只是一个微不足道的分数实际生活事件生存。
■For a man to live on the meager earnings of a professional football player in those days was close to impossible, and trying to raise a family on those minuscule earnings dearly ridiculous.
当时当个职业足球员,挣钱极少,要养活自己都几乎不可能,要想用那点微薄的收入养活全家,显然更是不可思议。
■We are led through some varied scenery, but we pass by only a minuscule fraction of the 10500 possible solutions.
我们或许被引领经过一些不同的风景,但我们所到之处却只佔10500个可能解中极渺小的部份。
■Goggles, windshields, even surgical endoscopes fog when minuscule vapor droplets do not coalesce and run off.
护目镜、挡风玻璃,甚至外科内视镜上的水气如果没有聚集成水滴流走,镜面就会起雾。
■Once formed, the new viruses percolate to the cell surface, pinch off inside minuscule bubbles of cell membrane and drift away, or else they continue reproducing until the cell finally bursts.
新病毒一旦形成,不是逐渐渗透到细胞表面,随细胞膜上形成的小泡脱离细胞而去,就是不断复制,直到细胞终于胀破为止。
■Having such minuscule components conveniently allows one to stuff a lot into a compact package, but saving space per se is not the impetus behind the push for extreme miniaturization.
有了这麽微小的元件,当然方便我们将它们大量塞入小巧的包装中,不过节省空间本身并不是极致微小化背后的主要动力;
■Sometimes they become so technical that athletics ceases to be a sport in their eyes as they argue over minuscule points of no real interest to practising athletes.
有时他们对技术钻牛角尖钻到如此地步。 他们争论那些实际训练的运动员毫无兴趣的细枝末节。 此刻,在他们眼里,运动已不成其为运动。
■"Organic produce formerly accounted for a minuscule portion of total American farm output, But it has seen a huge proportional increase in sales in recent years."
有机农作物过去只占美国农产品总输出的极少部分,但近年来的销售量已有大幅度的成长。
■Future Columbus experiments include an atomic clock that will test minuscule timing effects including those expected by Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
末来,哥伦布实验舱还会进行包括利用原子钟测试爱因斯坦的广义相对论对时间的微小影响。