基本释义
- adj.
- 较小的，次要的，轻微的，微不足道的; 小音阶的
- n.
- 未成年人; 辅修生/课程
- v.
- 辅修
词性变化
- 复数:minors;
实用例句
a minor road
小路
牛津词典
minor injuries
轻伤
牛津词典
to undergo minor surgery
做小手术
牛津词典
youths imprisoned for minor offences
因犯轻罪而被关押的年轻人
牛津词典
There may be some minor changes to the schedule.
时间安排也许会有些小小的变动。
牛津词典
Women played a relatively minor role in the organization.
在这个组织中，妇女发挥着相对次要的作用。
牛津词典
the key of C minor
C小调
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It is an offence to serve alcohol to minors.
向未成年人提供含酒精的饮料是违法的。
牛津词典
She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...
她因在电影中饰演了一些配角而在意大利为人所知。
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
西方官员称这个问题并不严重，应该很快就会解决。
Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...
萨拉一直小病缠身。
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
他母亲得去医院做一个小手术。
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
未完成的F小调奏鸣曲乐章
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
这个方法实际上杜绝了向未成年人出售香烟的现象。
I'm minoring in computer science.
我辅修计算机科学。
I prefer to read rather than sit idle.
我宁愿读书而不愿闲坐着.
期刊摘选
The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.
年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色.
《简明英汉词典》
This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.
这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤.
《简明英汉词典》
Let's focus our attention on the main problem and not get bogged down in minor issues.
抓主要问题,不要被枝节问题牵掣住.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
These are the major and minor premises on which the conclusion is based.
这是这个结论所依据的前提.
《简明英汉词典》
Twenty yuan was all spent on minor purchases.
20块钱全零用掉了.
《现代汉英综合大词典》
There are many minor and obscure poets in the age of Elizabeth.
伊丽莎白时代有许多不知名的诗人.
《简明英汉词典》
真题例句
They receive severe penalties for committing minor offenses.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.
出自-2015年12月听力原文This caused minor damage to his truck and serious damage to the car.
出自-2013年12月听力原文Damage to the truck, however, was minor
出自-2013年12月听力原文There wss damage to the mailboxes and minor damage to the truck.
出自-2013年12月听力原文However, David Reay, professor of carbon management, argues that, although microwaves use a great deal of energy, their emissions are minor compared to those from cars.
2019年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section CIn the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.
2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section CThe company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.
2017年6月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section AThe lawyer argued that it is wrong to execute a person for a crime he committed while he was a minor.
2015年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section CThe average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.
出自-2011年6月听力原文So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on.
2016年6月六级真题（第一套）听力 Section CThe average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54, 000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average$18, 000.
2016年6月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section CThe reality is, taking one's phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious.
2017年12月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section BThey also need better public relations skills than their predecessors, as the costs of even a minor slipup can be significant.
2020年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ英英释义
1. a young person of either sex;
"she writes books for children"
"they're just kids"
"`tiddler' is a British term for youngsters"
1. of lesser importance or stature or rank;
"a minor poet"
"had a minor part in the play"
"a minor official"
"many of these hardy adventurers were minor noblemen"
"minor back roads"
2. lesser in scope or effect;
"had minor differences"
"a minor disturbance"
3. inferior in number or size or amount;
"a minor share of the profits"
"Ursa Minor"
4. of a scale or mode;
"the minor keys"
"in B flat minor"
5. not of legal age;
"minor children"
6. of lesser seriousness or danger;
"suffered only minor injuries"
"some minor flooding"
"a minor tropical disturbance"
7. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name;
"Jones minor"
9. warranting only temporal punishment;
"venial sin"
10. limited in size or scope;
"a small business"
"a newspaper with a modest circulation"
"small-scale plans"
"a pocket-size country"
同义词辨析
marginal, minor, negligible, minimal
这些形容词均含"不重要的，次要的"之意。
- marginal： 指处于边缘，幅度、范围小，故价值或重要性不大。
- minor： 多指与别的比较后显得不重要，或指较少、较小。
- negligible： 指数量小，不重要，微不足道或可忽略不计。
- minimal： 指最少、最低或最小。