Minor

(adj.) limited in size or scope; 'a small business'; 'a newspaper with a modest circulation'; 'small-scale plans'; 'a pocket-size country' .

(adj.) inferior in number or size or amount; 'a minor share of the profits'; 'Ursa Minor' .

(adj.) lesser in scope or effect; 'had minor differences'; 'a minor disturbance' .

(adj.) not of legal age; 'minor children' .

(adj.) of a scale or mode; 'the minor keys'; 'in B flat minor' .

(adj.) of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) of lesser seriousness or danger; 'suffered only minor injuries'; 'some minor flooding'; 'a minor tropical disturbance' .

(adj.) warranting only temporal punishment; 'venial sin' .

(adj.) of the younger of two boys with the same family name; 'Jones minor' .

杜安整理

• I heard one of the young men tell another that he knew I'd been an actress, in fact, he thought he remembered seeing me at one of the minor theaters. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• It passed by Armenia to Asia Minor, Egypt, and North Africa. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• To-day the friction match is turned out by automatic machinery by the million, and constitutes probably the most ubiquitous and useful of all the minor inventions. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• Well, well, the point is a minor one, and when you have Randall you will probably find no difficulty in securing his accomplice. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
• Was there not the geography of Asia Minor, in which her slackness had often been rebuked by Mr. Casaubon? 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• The final end of life is fixed; given a state framed with this end in view, not even minor details are to be altered. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
• I mean any minor point. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Love had come, as the rod of the master-prophet, to swallow up every minor propensity. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Many minor improvements have been made in the storage battery, covered by 716 United States patents, most of which relate to cellular construction for holding the mass of red lead in place. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
• In some men it is half-conscious, in others a minor influence, but almost no one of weight escapes the contagion of it entirely. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• There are one or two minor points which were brought out in the inquest, and which are worth considering. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• When the minor came to de of age, another tax, called relief, was still due to the superior, which generally amounted likewise to a year's rent. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• She seems a minor, and must therefore be at our royal disposal in marriage. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Well, a kind of minor king, such as Odysseus might have been. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• He is lying thus, apparently forgetful of his newer and minor surprise, when the housekeeper returns, accompanied by her trooper son. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

整理:罗伯塔