Minor
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定义
minor: 较小的、次要的、轻度的
a minor: 未成年人
注意：不要将minor与miner（矿工）混淆。
示例
- "Edward : I'm not a minor, I'm 18 years old!"
- "This is really a minor procedure with about a ninety percent success rate."
- "Herbert : A minor detail babe."
- "He and his friends in finance managed to buy up stocks from minor shareholders of the company, including members of the Dulce family."
- "This is merely a minor surface puncture."
- "An infamous raider, Mazerati started out as a minor shareholder in D&C and spent years slowly accumulating the majority of the company's stock, discreetly buying up shares from the struggling members of the Dulce and Carpaccio families without the knowledge or approval of other stockholders."
- "Icarus got very sunburnt and spent the evening in the hospital with minor facial burns, but overall, the picnic was a success, no thanks to the rest of you!"
- "Icarus also got very sunburnt and spent the evening in the hospital with minor facial burns."
- "Philip : If I could interject, I believe they still made a healthy profit in the 90's despite these minor problems."
- "Stores will stop selling assault rifles and handguns to minors."
- "From giant purple egg was born mother country of Kalackistan, then other minor countries like USA, and Belarus and Zimbabwe."
- "From giant purple egg was born mother country of Kalackistan, then other minor countries like USA, and Belarus and Zimbababwe."
- "You dealt with minor setbacks like Luna DeLune's absurd claim that her LunaBot "had bad energy" (we checked the voltage, she was fine)."
- "Apparently there was a minor train collision just outside of Birmingham. I assume this is the same accident you were "involved" in."
- "With just a few minor tweaks and several hundred billable hours, we are fairly certain that the Delavigne Corporation can restore its reputation at least for a few months - that's the Slick Brand Solutions guarantee*."
- "Simon Pinklespit, a minor investor, got the others very excited - he spoke for nearly an hour about on-site efficiency reviews."
- "Terrance is recovering from a minor surgical procedure, but he is still in good enough shape to beat me at nine holes of golf, that son of a gun."
- "Icarus : Well, it's not so much a problem as an issue, a minor issue."
- "Serving alcohol to minors is illegal."
- "Minor victory: I've persuaded Horatio to wear rubber gloves after using the toilet."
练习 1
"I've typed the date in capital letters..."
If " ABC " are capital letters, what do we call " abc "?
If " ABC " are capital letters, what do we call " abc "?
"I've typed the date in capital letters..."
If " ABC " are capital letters, what do we call " abc "?
If " ABC " are capital letters, what do we call " abc "?
"Lowercase" is the term used to describe letters which are not capitals, such as "z", "e", "a" and "l". Example: People in internet chat rooms often write only in lowercase letters. Note that "capital letters" are sometimes referred to as "uppercase letters".
Now that's not very likely, is it? This is a very cute name, but it's not what we call these letters. Sorry.
The term "minor" describes something which is "unimportant" or "insignificant". It does not describe the opposite of "capital letters".
"Small writing" simply describes the size of a text. It does not explain the difference between, say, "D" and "d", both of which can be written either small or large in size!
