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单词 iota
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If you don't care one iota about something, it means you don’t care about it even one little bit. An iota is something very small.
An iota is the smallest letter of the Greek alphabet. The expression "not one iota" comes from the Bible (Matthew 5:18): "For truly, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not an iota, not a dot, will pass from the Law until all is accomplished."
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USAGE EXAMPLES
They were all tailored to our current crisis and lack even an iota of foresight.
Slate(Dec 19, 2016)
Throughout three intervening decades of public life, Mr. Sessions hasn’t evinced an iota of racial animus.
Wall Street Journal(Nov 30, 2016)
Trump is not a person with an iota of public service experience.
Salon(Nov 29, 2016)
1
n a tiny or scarcely detectable amount
Syn|Hyper
scintilla, shred, smidge, smidgen, smidgeon, smidgin, tittle, whit
small indefinite amount, small indefinite quantity
an indefinite quantity that is below average size or magnitude
2
n the 9th letter of the Greek alphabet
Hyper
alphabetic character, letter, letter of the alphabet
the conventional characters of the alphabet used to represent speech
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