minor
adj. 較小的,次要的,輕微的; 小音階的
n. 未成年人; 輔修生/課程
v. 輔修
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...
她因在電影中飾演了一些配角而在義大利為人所知。
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
西方官員稱這個問題並不嚴重,應該很快就會解決。
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...
薩拉一直小病纏身。
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
他母親得去醫院做一個小手術。
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小調奏鳴曲樂章
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.
這個方法實際上杜絕了向未成年人出售香菸的現象。
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.
我輔修電腦科學。
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
這些形容詞均含"不重要的,次要的"之意。
in a minor key
(尤指文學作品)輕描淡寫的
minor in
(北美)副修
The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.
年輕的男演員在這出新戲裡被分派擔任一個小角色.
This cream can be used to treat sundry minor injuries.
這種藥膏可用來治各種輕傷.
Let's focus our attention on the main problem and not get bogged down in minor issues.
抓主要問題,不要被枝節問題牽掣住.
These are the major and minor premises on which the conclusion is based.
這是這個結論所依據的前提.
Twenty yuan was all spent on minor purchases.
20塊錢全零用掉了.