minuscule

adj.

1. 极小的；微小的
   extremely small

1. ADJ 极小的;微小的
   If you describe something as minuscule, 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。

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。
2. It was a minuscule amount of money – but for this woman, the coin represented a meal.
   我吃惊地看着硬币，它的面额很低&但对那个女人而言，这就是一顿饭！
3. SWIG, though, does the hard work for you& with a minuscule amount of pseudo-code.
   但SWIG可以帮您完成这一艰苦工作&并且只需采用少量的伪代码。
4. 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。
5. 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。
6. 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。
7. 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。
8. 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。
9. Existing shareholders would be left with a minuscule stake.
   现有股东将持有剩下的很小一部分股权。
10. But, in countries as diverse as Canada, China, Japan, Mexico, and Russia, such lending was a minuscule part of commercial real estate finance.
    但在加拿大、中国、日本、墨西哥和俄罗斯等不同国家，这类贷款只占商业地产融资的很小一部分。
11. 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。
12. But although tea production in America is minuscule, consumption is booming.
    尽管美国茶产量很少，但是消费需求却是在高涨。
13. You could make something minuscule seem enormous.
    你可以展示一下如何让小东西变大。
14. Last year, European firms accounted for 80 per cent of all credit insurance purchases, compared with a minuscule 3 per cent share attributed to Asia-based buyers.
    去年，在购买的所有信用保险中，欧洲企业占了80%，相比之下，亚洲买家仅占了微不足道的3%。
15. DaimlerChrysler said it would start selling its minuscule two-seater cars in the United States from 2008.
    戴姆勒&克莱斯勒集团称，它将从2008年起开始在美国出售其微型双座轿车。
16. Only minuscule quantities of silver are used and there is no waste, unlike chemical-etching processes.
    而且这也不像化学腐蚀加工方法那样，它仅需要非常少的银，并且没有浪费。
17. 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？
18. Penetration in China is still minuscule, at 3 per cent of the population.
    中国的汽车普及率仍微不足道，仅达到总人口的3%。
19. 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。
20. 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。
21. 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。
22. 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。
23. He had to live in this minuscule room.
    他不得不住在这极小的房间里。
24. Astronomers think this effect, although minuscule for Earth, could play a role in the black hole dynamos that power quasars.
    天文学家认为，这种影响，但是对地球微不足道，可在黑洞发电机功率类星体的角色。
25. 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。
26. The effect is so minuscule, however, that it can't be seen with current technology on a single image of jets from a supermassive black hole.
    然而，这种影响是极其微小的，利用目前的技术在单一的图像上无法看到磁场对超级黑洞射流的影响。
27. First, the risks of default, always minuscule, have been removed.
    首先，一向微乎其微的违约风险如今已经消除。
28. The minuscule cash portion of the bonuses for top performers is a cause for concern at the bank, since many employees rely on the February infusion of cash to pay for apartments in Manhattan and tuition at private schools.
    顶尖业绩者奖金中，现金部分所占比例微小，在银行里引发了担忧，因为许多员工都依赖2月份入帐的现金来支付曼哈顿的公寓和私立学校学费。
29. Proportionate to the possible membership, we represent a minuscule number of hard of hearing people.
    相对于重听人实际总数，我们表现出的只是一个极小的数字。

noun

1. a small cursive script developed from uncial between the 7th and 9th centuries and used in medieval manuscripts

2. the characters that were once kept in bottom half of a compositor's type case

   Synonym:    small letterlowercaselower-case letter

adj

1. very small
   1. a minuscule kitchen
   2. a minuscule amount of rain fell

   Synonym:    miniscule

2. lowercase
   1. little a
   2. small a
   3. e.e.cummings's poetry is written all in minuscule letters

   Synonym:    littlesmall

3. of or relating to a small cursive script developed from uncial

   Synonym:    minuscular