喜樂美語

minutia

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

這個字我們還沒有寫成教學內容。以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，方便你先看懂它的意思。

minutianoun/maɪ̯ˈn(j)uːʃ(iː)ə/

  • 1

    A minor detail, often of negligible importance.

    • They spent all their time on minutiae, never making real progress.
    • I think I can ſee the preciſe and diſtinguiſhing marks of national characters more in theſe nonſenſical minutiæ, than in the moſt important matters of ſtate ; where great men of all nations talk and ſtalk ſo much alike, that I would not give ninepence to chuſe amongſt them.
  • 2

    Any of the point features on fingerprints used for matching, usually endings and bifurcations of ridges.

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。