喜樂美語

核心畫面

You can picture two things side by side, and 'minor' is the smaller, lesser one — the one that matters less or counts for less when set next to the bigger, more serious thing.

可以想成兩樣東西並排放著，minor 就是其中比較小、比較不重要的那一個——跟旁邊那個大的、嚴肅的相比，它顯得分量輕…更多收起可以想成兩樣東西並排放著，minor 就是其中比較小、比較不重要的那一個——跟旁邊那個大的、嚴肅的相比，它顯得分量輕、地位低。整個字都繞著「兩者裡較小、較次的那一個」這個畫面打轉。

Two branches

小的、次要的

這一族直接就是核心畫面本身：兩者中比較小、比較不嚴重的那一邊。

small/unimportant · adjective · B2

Small and not very important or serious, especially next to bigger or more serious things.

小的；輕微的

未到門檻、層級較低

名詞用法把「較小的那一個」具體化成人或層級：年齡還不夠的人、學業上比較小的那一門、棒球裡層級較低的那一級。

a minor (underage) · noun · B2

A young person who is below the age at which the law treats them as an adult.

未成年人

原始詞典資料36 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。

Minorname

  • 1

    A surname.

minoradj/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

  • 1

    Lesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option, particularly

    • of minor importance
    • a minor poet
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    lawLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • The defendant resides at 123 Fake Street with his partner and two minor children.
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    medicinesciencesLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • She suffered a minor injury.
    • There was minor bruising.
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    entertainmentlifestylemusicLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • The musical interval between C and E♭ is a minor third while C to E is a major third.
    • ...a certaine Fraction, which may be the difference betwixt a Tone major and a Tone minor, which we nominate a Schism...
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    entertainmentlifestylemusicLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • 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.
    • The minor mode of D is tender.
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    educationLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • The minor requirements only involve about 20 hours of classes.
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    mathematicssciencesLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

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    human-scienceslogicmathematicsLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • The minor term of John Stuart Mill's famous syllogism—usually mistakenly credited to Aristotle—is Socrates; the major term is mortal.
另外 6 個記錄的用法
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    datedLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • He whipt her with a foxes taile, Barnes minor,
    • Espionage... was a field that had sophisticated itself since the distant time when Patullo Minor... had enthralled his school-fellows with his hazardous escapades.
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    historicalentertainmentlifestylemusicLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • The minor perfect mode was marked by one single line which crossed three spaces, and the longue was equal to three breves... The minor imperfect mode was marked by a line which crossed two spaces only, and its longue was equal only to two breves.
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    historicalentertainmentlifestylemusicLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • 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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    obsoletegovernmentpoliticsLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

    • ...that the Minor part of the Lords might joyn with the Major part of the House of Commons...
    • 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

    • And whenever Dre tore her off some money, she always split it up between his kids. She would've felt real minor taking all his cash and spending it on herself, knowing how needy his babies were.
  • 14

    graph-theorymathematicssciencesLesser, smaller in importance, size, degree, seriousness, or significance compared to another option

minornoun/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

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    lawA 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.

    • 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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    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.
  • 3

    educationA formally recognized secondary area of undergraduate study, requiring fewer course credits than the equivalent major.

    • I got a minor in English Lit.
  • 4

    educationA person who is completing or has completed such a course of study.

    • I became an English minor.
  • 5

    mathematicssciencesA determinant of a square matrix obtained by deleting one or more rows and columns.

    • ...the whole of a system of rth minors being zero...
    • Let A be a non-zero matrix of rank r over a field. Then A has a non-zero r-minor and all s-minors of A are zero for s > r.
  • 6

    ball-gamesfootballgamesSynonym of behind: a one-point kick.

    • Brown from a mark on the magazine wing put up the first minor.
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    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesAny of various noctuid moths in Europe and Asia, chiefly in the Oligia and Mesoligia genera.

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    biologyentomologynatural-sciencesA leaf-cutter worker ant intermediate in size between a minim and a media.

另外 4 個記錄的用法
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    campanologyhistoryhuman-sciencesChanges rung on six bells.

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    obsoleteAn adolescent, a person above the legal age of puberty but below the age of majority.

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    obsoleteraremathematicssciencesSynonym of subtrahend, the amount subtracted from a number.

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    obsoleterareThe younger brother of a pupil.

    • Let my minor pass, you fellows!... Here, Chudleigh, just make room there.

minorverb/ˈmaɪ.nəɹ/

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    Used in a phrasal verb: minor in.

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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。