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ti·ny 英'taɪni美'taɪni COCA²⁵⁰⁰⁸BNC²⁷⁰¹⁰Economist²⁴¹⁰⁶⁺⁶ 基本双解英英辨析词源搭配近义反义句型用法例句Thesaurus例句 adj.极小的³⁴;微小的⁶⁶原型tiny的最高级比较级tinier最高级tiniest名词tininess adj.形容词 极小的,微小的very small Adjective: very small;diminutive in stature a lilliputian chest of drawers her petite figure tiny feet the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy adj.形容词 tiny, little, small这组词的共同意思是“小”。其区别是: little和small在修饰物时,前者着重数量不多、少; 后者侧重于程度和尺寸的大小。little和small用来修饰人时,前者侧重于因年龄小而使身形娇小,后者则侧重于指比一般人身材矮小,含有比较的意味。另外, little还含有一种small所没有的感情色彩,往往含有“小得可爱”“小得可怜”等意思。tiny比little和small更强调小,含有“微不足道”的意思。例如: There is little gasoline left in the tank.油箱里没有多少汽油了。 The boy is small for his age.这男孩身材小得同年龄不相称。 He lived in a tiny cottage all by himself.他一人住在一间很小的茅屋里。little,small,tiny,minute,miniature这些形容词均有“小的”之意。 little指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小,多带主观感情色彩,含小而可爱或小巧的意味。 small多指数量、面积、体积、价值、数字或意义等的小或少,指略小于正常的大小。 tiny强调与同类或其他物体比较,小得超出正常比例,有时带强烈的感情色彩。 minute指小得难看见,有时需用显微镜才看得见。 miniature指由正常体积微缩的物体。 1400年左右进入英语,直接源自该语的tyne,意为非常小的;最初源自该语的tine,意为尖齿。 用作形容词 adj. ~+名词tiny child幼小的孩子tiny majority微弱多数tiny minority极少数tiny baby个儿小的婴儿tiny changes细微的改动tiny grains of gold黄金细末tiny mountain极小的山tiny town极小的城镇 近义词 baby婴儿small小的wee极小的minute分钟little小的puny微小的midget侏儒teeny极小的slight轻微的bantam矮脚鸡diminutive小的miniature小型的minuscule小写字Lilliputian极小的microscopic显微镜的infinitesimal极微的undersized尺寸不足的petite女子娇小的…insignificant无关紧要的flyspeck蝇粪留下的污点…反义词 large大的 用作形容词adj. 用作定语 ~+ n.This tiny woman has an incredible appetite.这位小巧玲珑的妇人竟有那么大的胃口。 The baby put his tiny hand in mine.那个婴儿把小手放在我的手中。 She keeps a tiny cat.她养了一只猫崽。 There was a tiny insect on the flower.那朵花上有个极小的昆虫。 This is the tiniest car I've ever seen.这是我所见到的最小的汽车。 The brush has tiny red berries on it.灌木丛中长着红色的小浆果。 A whole tankful of gas dropped away because of the tiny leak.由于这个小小的漏洞,整整一油箱的汽油都漏光了。 Because of the housing shortage many couples had to double up in one tiny apartment.由于住房紧张,许多对夫妻只好挤住在一幢小公寓里。 He drew the curtains and turned on the tiny television set.他拉上窗帘,打开小电视机。 用作表语 S+be+~Some stars look as tiny as pinheads, but they are even bigger than the sun in fact.有些星星看起来像针尖儿一样小,但它们实际上甚至比太阳还大。 adj.形容词
tiny的基本意思是“极小的”“微小的”,指与大多数同类事物或其他事物相比较而显得特别小。在句中多用作定语,偶尔也可用作表语,可用于比较等级。 形容词99%,名词1% 用作形容词Atinyfishing boat was drifting slowly along.一只小小的渔船在缓缓地漂去。 We're struggling along on atinyincome.我们依靠极少的收入过活。 She has atinymole on her cheek.她面颊上有一颗小痣。 The baby's dress was beautifully tucked withtinystitches.婴儿衫的褶裥打得针脚细密,很漂亮。 The path led to atinyvillage perched on the steep sides of a mountain.那条小路通向坐落在陡峭的山坡上的小村庄。as in.least 同义词 bottom,first,gutter,infinitesimal,last,minimum,minute,nadir,second,thirdatomic,entry-level,feeblest,fewest,finical,lowest,meanest,microcosmic,microscopic,minimal,minutest,molecular,most trivial,next to nothing,niggling,piddling,poorest,short-end,trivial,unimportant 反义词 big,huge,large,substantialmostas in.minimum 同义词 minimalleast possible,littlest,merest,slightest,smallest 反义词 largest,maximum,most leastadjective slightest, smallest atomic,bottom,entry-level,feeblest,fewest,finical,first,gutter,infinitesimal,last,lowest,meanest,microcosmic,microscopic,minimal,minimum,minute,minutest,molecular,most trivial,nadir,next to nothing,niggling,piddling,poorest,second,short-end,third,trivial,unimportant minimumadjective least, lowest least possible,littlest,merest,minimal,slightest,smallest,tiniest Even the tiniest bias in physics will show up as a big difference after thousands of generations. 在经历了几千代之后,物理学上的最微小偏差将会演变成巨大的差异。 yeeyan The ESA says the number of objects has risen steadily, increasing by200 per year on average. If the tiniest nut collides with a spacewalking astronaut, it would kill him or her instantly. 欧航局说,太空垃圾以年均200个的数量持续增加,它们的威胁很致命,太空行走的宇航员即使被最小的螺母击中,也可能立即丧命。 www.chinadaily.com.cn The ring and the wedding were just the tiniest parts of all of this. Marriage is so much better. 婚戒和婚礼是其中最小的一部分,婚姻本身要比那些要好更多。 yeeyan The tiniest green hummingbird in the world? 看世界上最小的绿色蜂鸟? yeeyan “The American, ” filtering out any mention of the character’s history and suppressing all but the tiniest indications of emotion, tries to strip the man to his essence. 《美国人》遮蔽了角色所有的历史背景,而且除了细微的感情之外什么也不予流露,希望能够以此能将人物置于最本质的状态之下。 yeeyan A fragrant, watery soup, wonton is filled with bite-sized boiled dumplings and dozens of the tiniest shrimps you can imagine. 一碗芳香四溢,水汪汪的馄饨,你可以想象用一口就能吞下的皮包裹着好多小虾米的肉馅。 yeeyan As long as they receive decent after- care, kidney donors suffer only the tiniest increase in their own risk of dying of kidney disease. 只要他们接受适当的病后护理与治疗,肾脏捐献者死于自身肾病的风险只有微小的增加。 ecocn But geologists can now listen to the tiniest vibrations rumbling through the Earth. 但地质学家现在可以通过地球听到最微小的震动发出的隆隆声。 yeeyan Databases are filling up with the genomes of everything from the tiniest virus to the tallest tree. 从最微小的病毒到最高的树木,一切生物的基因组数据填满了数据库。 yeeyan Gravitational wave detectors are incredibly sensitive to the tiniest change in distance. 重力波探测器对距离上极微小的变化都非常敏感。 yeeyan He was trying instead to show how, with the injection of the tiniest bit of reality, the perfect- market models he'd learned so well in grad school began to break down. 他反而试着去证明他在研究生院里学习得如此出色的完全市场模型是如何开始跨掉的,而这几乎是纯理论性的。 yeeyan Humans excel at extracting meaning and sentiment from even the tiniest snippets of text, a task that stumps machines. 人们善于从即使是最小的文字片段以及把机器都难倒的工作中发掘出意义和情感。 ecocn I would look at her when she was on top of me, her stomach which made a deep crease above her navel, her breasts, the right one the tiniest bit larger than the left, her face and open mouth. 我愿意看她趴在我身上的样子,她的小腹肚脐上弄出一道深深的皱纹,她的乳房,右边的比左边的略微大些,还喜欢看她的脸和张开的嘴。 yeeyan If you had a magic microscope that could see how things work on the tiniest scale in nature, you might get a bit of a surprise. 如果你有一个神奇的显微镜,可以看到自然界最小尺度上的运作方式,你或许会深感意外。 yeeyan In its last legislative session, the state legislature made even the tiniest of businesses eligible for aid. 在上一届的立法机构会议上,州议会甚至让最小的企业也有资格接受补助。 ecocn One of the world's tiniest frogs has been discovered in Borneo. 世界上最小的一种青蛙之一在婆罗洲被发现。 yeeyan Said author died at75 years of age according to Wikipedia while never giving even his closest friends the tiniest clue about what his sexuality might have been. 据说这个作家享年75岁据维基百科,即便是他最亲密的朋友,对他的性取向也完全摸不着一丝头绪。 yeeyan Someone, eventually, will spot even the tiniest error, or tighten a patch of sloppy prose. 最终有的人甚至会挑出微小的错误,或者是紧凑一小片松散的散文。 ecocn Staff were being tremendously careful when caring for him, because the tiniest jerk of his head would have killed him. 医护人员在护理他时需要非常的小心,因为对他头部一个轻微的拉动作都有可能夺走他的生命。 yeeyan The breakthrough has the potential to drastically enhance biological studies, letting researchers observe the structure of the tiniest and most complex elements of life in focus for the first time. 这项突破可能会大大促进生物学研究的发展,使研究人员第一次能够观察到那些视为研究焦点的更小、更复杂生命元素的结构。 soomal The tiniest survivor was cold and wet and crying, but she is believed to have suffered no other injuries. 这位小小的幸存者又冷又湿,不停地哭啼,但是经检查她并没有受伤。 hxen They don’t want to be seen as square or even the tiniest bit surprised, so they treat us like we’re no big deal. 他们不想被视为跟不上潮流的人,不想表现出一丁点儿惊讶,所以他们以一种没什么大不了的态度对待我们。 yeeyan When you write something like that you can place the tiniest piece of information you have so that it sounds like the tip of the iceberg of a vast amount of knowledge. 当你写这样的东西的时候你可以只透露你所掌握的非常小一部分信息,这样它听上去就好像是大量知识的冰山一角。 yeeyan |