minuscule
美 [ˈmɪnəˌskjul] 
英 [ˈmɪnɪˌskjuːl]
- adj.极小的；微小的
- n.同“miniscule”
- 网络小写字母；很小的；小世界
词形变化
复数：minuscules 反义词
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例句
Imports from China, though, were a minuscule share of expenditures at the beginning of the sample period and an enormous share at the end.
从中国进口商品，虽然在一个很小的份额支出采样周期的开始和一个巨大的份额在最后。
The ships use energy from the wind to propel themselves around and spray minuscule droplets of sea water into the air.
船舶使用风能推动其自身旋转并将海水的微小水滴喷洒到空气中。
But if the Japanese example is any guide, that effect is minuscule, if any, and is far from sufficient to turn the economy around.
但是，如果日本例子是一种借鉴，这种效果是微不足道的，如果有的话，远不足以扭转经济衰退。
It is unfathomable to me as to how the girl can scrape by on such a minuscule amount of money.
这个女孩如何能用这么少的钱度日，这令我难以理解。
There is only a minuscule chance that Japan's Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant will turn into a new Chernobyl.
日本福岛第一核电站（FukushimaDaiichi）变成第二个切尔诺贝利（Chernobyl）的可能性极小。
Others are equally evangelical in their assertions that the sun plays only a minuscule role in climate change.
而其他人却断定太阳在气候变化问题上只担当了个跑龙套。
Of course, this solution presents its own issues; at the time of this writing the knowledge base is minuscule.
当然，这个解决方案也有问题；到编写本文时，知识库的内容还不丰富。
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.
你获得的肌肉相对于全身的骨骼肌来说只是一小部分。
The truly radical right in Europe is still only minuscule, but even before the Oslo attacks, signs of a coming revival were evident.
真正极端的右翼在欧洲还是少数派，但就在奥斯陆攻击发生之前，他们即将复兴的事实也已经证据确凿。
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？
But he himself claims that he puts only a minuscule amount of his net worth on the table for trading activity using leverage.
但他声称他只用过净资产的很小地部分做过公开杠杆交易。
This minuscule water boatman might be smaller than a drawing pin, but it's also the loudest animal on the planet.
这只体形极小的划蝽可能比一只图钉还小，但它却是世界上最吵的动物。
In Beijing, the national capital, however, the relative size of the open-market-housing sector is still minuscule.
在北京，国家资本，不过，相对规模的公开市场住房部门仍然是微乎其微。
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。
Visual inspection won't have as dramatic an impact as the sophisticated tests, but will have 70 percent of the impact for a minuscule cost.
视觉检测和其他复杂的方法没有什么显著差异，并且费用降低70%。
The volume of quantum dots required is minuscule, however: they are made in batches of a few milligrams at a time.
然而，量子点的需求量是极小的：每个批次的生产都只有几毫克。
I just quit my job yesterday, I got tired of working 12 hours a day for such a minuscule salary.
（我辞去了昨天的工作，我已经厌倦了每天工作12小时却只能拿这么点薪水。）
"The effect of any particular diet group is minuscule, but the effect of individual behavior is humongous , " Dr.
这些因素对某个特定的饮食群体的作用可能非常微小，但对个体行为的影响可能是非常大的。
They have a minuscule mass, no electric charge, and pass through almost any material as though it was not there.
它们质量极小，不带电荷，可以穿透几乎任何物体而不留痕迹。
The idea rests on probing any minuscule variations in gravity as it acts on slow-moving neutrons in a tiny cavity.
这种想法基于在极小的空室内探测慢速粒子在引力作用下产生的细微振动。
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。
Older fonts and character encodings included only the minuscule form for its use as an abbreviation.
旧式字体和字符编码只包括了小写字母，用作缩写之用。
This amount is indeed minuscule, a couple of sand grains in an expanse of desert that pose no real threat to public health.
这个量非常微小，沙漠中增加了几粒沙子不会对公众健康造成真正威胁。
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。
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。
Nordhaus reckons that innovators capture a "minuscule" 2. 2 per cent of the total social benefit of their innovations.
诺德豪斯认为，创新者在其发明所产生的社会总收益中仅能收获“微不足道的”2.
"The students are such a minuscule portion of this program. "
“在校学生在整个计划中其实只占了极小的一部分。”
And even this minuscule probability will diminish to the vanishing point as researchers improve nonnuclear interception technologies.
而且随著研究人员持续改进非核的拦截手段，这个微小的机率还会持续减少，直到完全消失。
In the twentieth century, electron microscopes have provided direct views of viruses and minuscule surface structures.
世纪电子显微镜提供了对病毒和极微物体的表面结构的直接观察。
May be a minuscule part of your gene is that the your European ancestor gave you.
可能你身上的某一片段的基因是由你的欧洲祖先传给你的。
Nobody knows more than a minuscule fraction of what's going on in the world. It's just way too big for any one person to know it well.
人类对这个世界上发生的事所知不过尔尔，它太大以致于没有人可以全部知悉。
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 remaining 10% or so comes from groundwater, and a minuscule amount from recycling.
剩余的10%左右来自地下水，只有极少量是来自大气循环。
The chances of the asteroid going through the keyhole, which is tiny compared to the asteroid, are "minuscule, " Yeomans added.
“这个小行星运行到这个关键点的机会也不大，和小行星本身比起来，机会实在太微小，”也欧曼斯说。
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。
While this system is minuscule and complete, its radio doesn't equip it to talk to other devices like it.
系统虽然小而全，它的无线电部分却无法使之与同类设备通话。
If the plane has empty seats, the cost of adding one more passenger is minuscule.
如果飞机有空位，多增加一个乘客的成本是微乎其微的。
The calories your body burns in fueling the digestive cycle are minuscule compared with the calories in the food itself.
身体因消化循环而耗费的能量与食物本身所含的相比，是微乎其微的。
When solar contributed a minuscule proportion of Germany's total power output that excess was easily overlooked.
当光伏发电量在德国总发电量中只占很小一部分时，这种额外的成本很容易被忽视。
