minor
adj. 较小的,次要的,轻微的; 小音阶的
n. 未成年人; 辅修生/课程
v. 辅修
You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
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。
A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health.
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。
In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first.
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
未完成的F小调奏鸣曲乐章
A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
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。
At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major.
At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject.
If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject.
I'm minoring in computer science.
我辅修计算机科学。
1. a young person of either sex;
1. of lesser importance or stature or rank;
2. lesser in scope or effect;
3. inferior in number or size or amount;
4. of a scale or mode;
5. not of legal age;
6. of lesser seriousness or danger;
7. of your secondary field of academic concentration or specialization
8. of the younger of two boys with the same family name;
9. warranting only temporal punishment;
10. limited in size or scope;
marginal, minor, negligible, minimal
这些形容词均含"不重要的,次要的"之意。
in a minor key
(尤指文学作品)轻描淡写的
minor in
(北美)副修
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.
This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.
这种药膏可用来治各种轻伤.
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.
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.
Twenty yuan was all spent on minor purchases.
20块钱全零用掉了.