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    Exiguous means very small in amount — so small it feels thin, tight, or not enough. Exiguous funds, an exiguous smile, exiguous evidence: there is some, but barely. It is a rare, adjective. You will almost never hear it in speech; it lives in careful writing where the writer wants “tiny” to sound dry and exact, not cute. It describes quantity (how much), not quality (how good), and not size of a person. Though actually, the Latin behind it leaned toward “strict” and “exact,” like something measured against a line — English kept the “so little it has been pared down” side of that idea.

    微薄的、極少的

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組成From Latin exiguus (“strict, exact; scanty”), from exigere (“to measure against a standard”).

同家族的字

  • exactfrom the same Latin verb exigere, “to measure against a standard”
  • exigentfrom the same exigere, but this one kept the “demanding / urgent” meaning, not the “tiny” one

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

exiguousadj/ɪɡˈzɪ.ɡju.əs/

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    Scanty; meager.

    • The herdboy in the broom, already musical in the days of Father Chaucer, startles (and perhaps pains) the lark with this exiguous pipe.
    • The path on which I then planted my feet was quite unprecedentedly narrow. I had never had to walk along a thoroughfare so exiguous.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。