| 词汇 | minuscule |
| 释义 | minuscule adjective uk /ˈmɪn.ə.skjuːl/ us /ˈmɪn.ə.skjuːl/ extremely small: 极微小的 All she gave him to eat was two minuscule pieces of toast.她只给他吃了两小片烤面包。 not great in size, amount, etc. smallI live in a small town. littleShe's a good little girl. a littleI just want a little ice cream. a little (bit)I was a little bit upset that she ate the last piece of cake. tinyHis body was covered in tiny red spots. Extremely small atomized be knee-high to a grasshopperidiom bitsy exiguity exiguous imperceptible indiscernibly infinitesimal infinitesimally irreducible irreducibly miniature slimly slimness subatomic teensy ultra-tiny vanishingly weeny XS minuscule | American Dictionaryminuscule adjective (alsominiscule)us/ˈmɪn·əˌskjul, məˈnʌsˌkjul/ extremely small: Salaries are a minuscule part of the budget. Examples of minusculeminuscule It is unlikely that for any event, all people aware of that event would have knowledge of exactly the same minuscule collection of data. Nanotechnologists have already, by moving the atoms about, made the smallest switches that herald the time when microscopic computers or minuscule robots will be produced. Even this help was minuscule, given the scale of the problem. In the field of architecture where advancement through research is foiled by minuscule sponsorship, progress is also minuscule. Tall s is entirely absent, while round s is never used as a minuscule form but only as a capital. Our knowledge of this world, with its massive evils that have affected billions of causal chains to the end of history, is minuscule. These people are neither the 'traditional majority' nor the minuscule minority of the highly modernized and westernized. I fully grant that therapeutic veterinary research represents a minuscule portion of the animal research conducted today. When the frequency of an error falls so low, the significance of the error also becomes minuscule. This proves to be a structure of minuscule tubes whose diameter is nonetheless sufficient to allow aquatic animalcules to pass through them. Our intervention questions were a minuscule portion of the hundreds of questions the children heard daily. This again gives an idea of the minuscule economic dimension of this poor state. Or perhaps minuscule, like the daydreams that we believe and hope will protect us. It should be evident that our knowledge of the consequences of any event is minuscule in comparison with the entire set of consequences to the end of history. The complexity of history puts us in a position of having knowledge of only a minuscule portion of the consequences of any event, actual or proposed. 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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