minor
n. 未成年人, 副修科目 a. 较小的, 二流的, 未成年的 vi. 副修 [计] 次要
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教材释义与例句
未成年人；小调；副修科目
副修
未成年的；次要的；较小的；小调的；二流的
释义与例句
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A lesser person or thing, a person, group, or thing of minor rank or in the minor leagues.
He plays in the minors.
She hasn't won a minor since the Sichuan Open.
The play is considered one of his minors.
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Ellipsis of minor interval, minor scale, minor mode, minor key, minor chord, or minor triad.
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A formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.
辅修
副修
辅系
加拿大 美国 教育I got a minor in English Lit.
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A person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.
加拿大 美国 教育I became an English minor.
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Ellipsis of minor penalty (“a penalty requiring a player to leave the ice for 2 minutes unless the opposing team scores”).
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A determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.
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Ellipsis of minor suit, a card of a minor suit.
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Any of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.
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A leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.
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Changes rung on six bells.
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An adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.
未成年人
未成年者
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Synonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.
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The younger brother of a pupil.
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Short for graph minor
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A child, a person who has not reached the age of majority, consent, etc. and is legally subject to fewer responsibilities and less accountability and entitled to fewer legal rights and privileges.
法律No, he can't get a mortgage or sell the house. He's still a minor. For the most part, he can't sign a legally binding contract.
He was only a minor when he succeeded his father to the barony.
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Alternative letter-case form of Minor: a Franciscan friar, a Clarist nun.
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Ellipsis of minor term or minor premise.
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Ellipsis of minor league (“the lower level of teams”).
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Synonym of behind: a one-point kick.
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Ellipsis of minor point (“a lesser score formerly gained by certain actions”).
历史 体育 游戏
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Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.
辅修
不及物
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly
of minor importance
a minor poet
Here we se thre proposicions, or sentences, whereof the first is called Maior, that is to saie, the proposicion at large. the seconde is called Minor, that is to saie, the seuerall proposicion. the thirde is called conclusio.
It is my intention to wait a few years before I publish any minor poems.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Underage, not having reached legal majority.
法律The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Not serious, not involving risk of death, permanent injury, dangerous surgery, or extended hospitalization.
比喻 医学She suffered a minor injury.
There was minor bruising.
He has a minor case of puppy love.
We now know on authority of Dr. Briggs that every case of vaccination is "a minor case of smallpox," and that every such case of smallpox "should be carefully watched until all danger is passed".
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Smaller by a diatonic semitone than the equivalent major interval.
音乐The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Incorporating a minor third interval above the (in scales) tonic or (in chords) root note, (also figurative) tending to produce a dark, discordant, sad, or pensive effect.
音乐Beethoven's melancholy Moonlight Sonata is scored in the key of C# minor, using the diatonic scale C♯, D♯, E, F♯, G♯, A, and B, but modulates throughout.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Acting as the subject of the second premise of a categorical syllogism, which then also acts as the subject of its conclusion.
数学 哲学The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Having semibreves twice as long as a minim.
历史 音乐Josquin works in minor prolation—that is, works in which the signature indicates that a semibreve is equal to two minims, often have a 3 as a medial signature for a few measures, indicating that until the 3 is canceled by the reappearance of a sign for minor prolation, there are to be 3 minims to a semibreve.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minority party.
废旧 政治In every other, the minor will be preferred by me to the major vote.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minor, a secondary area of undergraduate study.
加拿大 美国 教育The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to a minor, a determinate obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns from a matrix.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
The younger of two pupils (or the middle of three) with the same surname.
英国 过时He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Of or related to the relationship between the longa and the breve in a score.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Having little worth or ability; paltry; mean.
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Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option
Including both directed and undirected edges.
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词源
From Middle English minor, menor, menour, etc., from Latin minor (“lesser; young; young person”) both directly and via Norman and Middle French menor, menour, etc. Doublet of minus but not mini-. Cognate with minister, minify, Minorca, Menshevik, and possibly minnow. Compare Latin minimum and minuō, Old High German minniro, Cornish minow.
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