| 单词 | small |
| 释义 | small I. 1. a. < a small waist > < sausage casings made from the small bowel > b. archaic 2. a. < a small house > < small lumps of coal > < the child is small for his age > b. < toys for small children > < small plants for bedding > c. (1) < the branches yield small wood for burning > (2) d. of a letter 3. dialect England < a small misty rain > 4. a. < the small people who are the backbone of the nation > b. < small poets > as (1) < small criminals > (2) < a small farmer > < small manufactories > also < small shops > < a small tradesman > 5. a. of the voice b. < the wine was very thin and small > 6. a. < a small number > < a small salary > < a small distance away > < waited a small space of time > b. < a small standing army > < small change > 7. a. < a small fault > < played a small role in the show > b. < living in a small way > < from such small beginnings > c. of language 8. < had small interest in public affairs > < paying small heed to his mother's warning > < suffered a small mishap > 9. a. < a small and cruel revenge > < a harsh small man > b. < never felt so small in his life > Synonyms: < a small audience > < a small child > < a small car > < small bills > < a small effect upon one's life > < a small reputation > or modifies words like quantity, amount, size, or capacity < a small quantity of flour > < rooms of a small size > or limits intangible or generally immeasurable things < a small mind > < a small personality > < a small prospect of succeeding > little is usually more absolute in implication, often carrying the idea of petiteness, pettiness, or insignificance in literal or figurative size, amount, quantity, or extent < a little woman > < our little ambitions > < a little mind > < a little man in all qualities of character > < little hope of a cure > little also often signifies a small amount, a small quantity, or a small extent of (something) < a little meat > < a small house and a little land > or carries a note of pathos, tenderness, or affection < a little heart-rending smile > < a little adorable child > diminutive can stress not only smallness but often extreme, sometimes abnormal, smallness in comparison < peasants who have wine for their ordinary drink, are of a diminutive size — Tobias Smollett > < a little black mustache and diminutive chin-beard — George Santayana > < diminutive houses and furniture fit only for dolls — W.H.Mallock > < these diminutive crabs are scavengers and live in holes in the mud at tide line — American Guide Series: Florida > petite applies to a proportionally small but usually pleasingly trim woman or girl < petite in stature: her height is about five feet, her weight, 112 pounds — Current Biography > < a petite actress with strong box-office appeal > wee is homely or dialect for diminutive < though my own interest quickened, my wee son, then aged one-and-a-half years, grew distinctly bored — O.S.Nock > < a wee drop of whiskey > tiny goes farther than diminutive in suggesting extreme littleness or smallness by comparison < in my lapel was a tiny gold lizard — Victor Canning > < the poisonous ingredient which magnified will kill, but in tiny quantities will cure — B.N.Cardozo > < children who squat patiently over those tiny little holes in the ground where doodlebugs are thought to live — Carson McCullers > < a wee tiny voice > teeny and weeny, occurring chiefly in children's or playful or humorous use, denote the same thing as diminutive or wee; the variant forms teeny-weeny, teeny-tiny, teensy-weensy, and similar reduplications, merely emphasize diminutiveness more or are more childish or playful < a little teeny dog can make enough racket to attract neighbors' attention — English Digest > < two veteran progressive-school teachers who have grown a weeny bit tired of their energetic, articulate, expressive little charges — Dwight MacDonald > < a teeny-weeny little dwarf > < when I was a teensy-weensy little girl > microscopic applies to or suggests what is small or insignificant enough to be observed usually only by the use of a microscope < microscopic germs > < microscopic particles of dust > < the mill workers who labored twelve or thirteen or fourteen hours a day for a microscopic wage — F.L.Allen > < traverses rolling farm country, spans creeks, passes through microscopic settlements, and penetrates scrubby woodland — American Guide Series: Pennsylvania > minute means extremely small in an absolute sense, usually on a microscopic or near-microscopic scale < mollusks drill minute holes in the shells through which they suck the oyster — American Guide Series: Florida > < the minute and steady click of Mrs. Millington's needle — Walter de la Mare > miniature applies to what is complete but built, drawn, or made on a very small scale < a miniature shower of pink petals — Harriet La Barre > < the park has a swimming pool for children, a miniature waterfall, and a small powerhouse and waterwheel — American Guide Series: Michigan > < the child was a miniature version of the father > II. 1. < grate small > < the meat served small on toast > 2. obsolete 3. < you may speak as small as you will — Shakespeare > 4. 5. < think small of one's neighbors > III. 1. < the small of the back > especially 2. a. smalls plural < kept a good stock of smalls > b. smalls plural, chiefly Scotland c. smalls plural, chiefly Britain (1) (2) d. e. smalls plural, Britain 3. smalls plural, slang • - by small and small IV. transitive verb obsolete intransitive verb < the road smalls in the distance > |
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