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min·nows 英'mɪnəʊz美'mɪnəʊz COCA²⁸⁸¹⁶BNC³⁷⁸⁵²Economist¹³⁷⁰³ 基本英英例句例句 鲰¹⁰⁰原型minnow的三单 名词 minnow: very small European freshwater fish common in gravelly streamsThese criminals arrested by the police are onlyminnows, their leader has escaped.这些被警察抓住的犯罪分子只是些小鱼,他们的头子却跑掉了。 However, all the minnows worry that the “ gold standard” trade talks might be tarnished by enlargement. 所有对「黄金标准」贸易对话的小小担忧都会因为扩张而显得黯淡无光。 yeeyan IN COLD-WAR days America and the Soviet Union vied for influence among the poor world's minnows. 冷战时期,美苏两国争夺在贫困国家的影响力。 ecocn A school of minnows swam by, each minnow with its small, individual shadow, doubling the attendance, so clear and sharp in the sunlight. 一群鲦鱼游过,每条都有虽小却不与众混淆的影子,阳光下清晰可观,从而一身两形。 putclub America and Europe are demographic minnows compared with the developing world’s two giants, China and India. 与世界两大人口大国中国和印度相比,美国和欧洲是小巫见大巫。 ecocn And instead of a nice dish of minnows— they had a roasted grasshopper with ladybird sauce. 与一盘美味的小鲤鱼相反的,他们吃了一餐烤蚱蜢拌瓢虫酱。 iciba Attendance has halved since the 1980s, mainly because the industry has consolidated into a small number of mega- farms rather than lots of minnows, he reports. 他说自上世纪80年代以来,参与者数量已经减半,主要原因是农业整合为少数几个大型农场,大量的小农场消失。 ecocn Big companies which are themselves short of cash are extremely wary of splashing out on the minnows in VC firms’ portfolios. 由于自身陷入现金短缺,大公司现在对大把花钱到风投公司投资组合的小鱼们身上极其谨慎。 yeeyan For Eurasia's minnows, playing one big power against another is a bit harder. 对欧亚大陆的小虾国而言,让一个大国对抗另一个大国就更困难一点了。 ecocn I could close my eyes and almost see him, humped up and waddling along, fishing under the banks with his delicate little paws for crawfish, frogs, and minnows. 我几乎闭上眼睛就能看见它的模样,奔窜着,身体摇摆,在下面的河滩上用它灵活的小爪子抓螯虾、青蛙和小鱼吃。 yeeyan I pictured my father struggling to patch up my broken heart with a pen, and his closing words slipped like minnows through my tears. 我可以想象父亲正在用他的笔,努力来修补我那破碎的心。他最后的话像小鱼那样悄悄溜过我的眼泪。 yeeyan if the parties finish only a couple of seats shy of an absolute majority, attention may turn instead to the minnows, such as the Scottish Nationalists or Wales' Plaid Cymru. 如果这些党派最后都只缺少几个席位就能超过半数的话,关注的焦点会转向那些不起眼的小党派,比如苏格兰民族党或是威尔士民族党。 ecocn Ignore minnows like Cyprus and Malta, and a bit more than two-fifths of the euro zone’s GDP comes from its high- saving, export-intensive countries: Germany and its close neighbours, plus Finland. 忽略像塞浦路斯、马耳他这样的弹丸小国,欧元区 GDP中略超过五分之二来自那些高储蓄、出口密集型的国家:德国及其近邻,再加芬兰。 ecocn Increasingly, there is a winner—takes— it—all rule: top places and their regions grow at the expense of smaller minnows in the pond. 愈发地发现一种强者之道,即顶级地区及其所属地是以池中小鱼被吃掉的规律发展的。 blog.sina.com.cn Instead relations with all its neighbours, with the exception of a couple of minnows like Bhutan and the Maldives, are mostly sour, and regional trade is pitiful. 实际情况是,除了与几个像不丹和马尔代夫等微不足道的小国外,印度与其他领国的关系基本上都不佳,区域贸易也令人遗憾。 sdo Nevertheless, its Chapter11 filing augurs ill for America’s corporate minnows, whose financing options have narrowed dramatically over the past year. 然而,它的破产申请第11章预示着美国的中小企业的厄运,他们筹措资金的可选择性相对于往年急剧的降低。 ecocn Nor have corporate minnows been able to count on much help from taxpayers. 也没有小企业能指望从纳税人处得到帮助。 yeeyan Still, the sands are carbon- emitting minnows. 即使如此,油砂开采依然在全部的碳排放中所占比例不大。 ecocn The remaining minnows are likely to be swallowed up in future. 而剩下的小鱼小虾将来可能也会被吞并。 ecocn The minnows can’t win customers on price because their deposit rates are fixed. 这些小鱼不能在价格上赢得客户,因为存款利率是固定的。 yeeyan Then there are distressed technology minnows, selling patents in the recession to raise the cash to survive. 当然,还有些境遇不佳的小技术公司为了在衰退中生存下来,只好变卖专利以维持现金流。 ecocn They found that small striped minnows called zebra fish learned very well during the day but very poorly at night, when melatonin levels are higher. 研究人员发现斑马鱼白天学习能力很好;夜晚却很差,而夜晚褪黑素分泌旺盛。 hjenglish This does not mean the BRICs have been, on balance, bad for the economic minnows. 总的来说,这并不意味着金砖四国对贫困国家有害。 ecocn |