词汇 | minimized |
释义 | minimized past simple and past participle ofminimize minimize verb[ T ] (UK usuallyminimise)uk /ˈmɪn.ɪ.maɪz/ us /ˈmɪn.ə.maɪz/ C1 to reduce something to the least possible level or amount: 使降到最低限度;使减到最少 We must minimize the risk of infection.我们必须将感染的风险降到最低。 Environmentalists are doing everything within their power to minimize the impact of the oil spill.环境保护主义者正竭尽所能把石油外溢造成的影响减少到最低限度。 Opposite maximize to make something seem less important or smaller than it really is: 对…轻描淡写,有意淡化 She accused politicians of minimizing the suffering of thousands of people.她指责政府对成千上万人的疾苦轻描淡写。 It's important to focus on your strengths and to minimize your weaknesses.扬长避短是很重要的。 Synonyms downplay understate Opposites emphasize exaggerate foreground highlight overplay overstate spotlight to make something small on a computer screen: 使(计算机屏幕上的)…最小化 Minimize the window by clicking in the corner. 按窗口角使之最小化 Compare maximize Becoming and making smaller or less abridgment attenuate attenuated attenuating attenuation compress contraction damp dwindling ease ease someone's mindidiom ease up/off fall away reducible reduction resize retreat rightsize telescope tumble You can also find related words, phrases, and synonyms in the topics: Exaggerating & playing down Operating computers Related wordminimization Examples of minimizedminimized In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use. It also served to speed up responding, which presumably would have minimized covert rehearsal. And the importance of this heedlessness should not be minimized. The impact of other anticancer modalities can be minimized by making changes in radiation therapy techniques. By applying half-beam block, the posterior half of the field is blocked off and the volume of lung irradiated is thus minimized. The physical treadmill configuration thus better minimized disruptions to alternating stepping. A huge number of copies of a functional group were placed at a specific site and thereafter simultaneously minimized or simulated. These demands can be minimized if words are positioned so as to permit rapid phrase structure recognition. The non-linear least squares regression employs an iterative technique which generates the sum of squared residuals to be minimized. The alternative approach, in which the role of the statistical model is minimized or avoided, can lead to serious misunderstandings. Many of these ambiguities of usage were devalued and minimized as language became a site of political and cultural contestation in the nationalist period. And, most important for our purposes, he minimized episodes remembered in the oral tradition that might have been unpleasant for the royal family. If this is not the case, both cannot be minimized together. With the use of the controlled delivery system, the number of loops on the pulmonary side can be minimized to less than one. A repetition effect of type of trial was therefore minimized. Being effectively omni-directional, disturbance to the pheromone plume would be minimized and trap entry behaviour would not be a barrier to insects approaching the lure. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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