| 单词 | minutia |
| 释义 | minutia (once / 9949 pages) n The tiny details of anything can be called minutiae. Minutia — which you'll usually see as minutiae, the plural version — is a little like trivia. Notice how minutia almost has the word mini in it? That's a good clue to the meaning, which is "small things or details." People who are sports fans tend to love minutiae — like what a player's batting average is, right down to the third decimal point. Anytime you're dealing with itty-bitty details, you're looking at minutiae. WORD FAMILYminutia: minutiae, minutias USAGE EXAMPLESSuch a focus reveals broader patterns, rather than getting dragged down into minutiae. Salon(Jan 01, 2017) For the past nine years, I’ve been immersed in the minutiae of nuclear command and control, trying to understand the actual level of risk. The New Yorker(Dec 23, 2016) As our colleague Erin Simpson wrote, he viscerally disdains the minutiae and machinery of the Pentagon. Washington Post(Nov 30, 2016) n a small or minor detail he had memorized the many minutiae of the legal code Hyper detail, item, point an isolated fact that is considered separately from the whole |
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