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Something is negligible when it is so slight or that it does not really have any effect. A negligible amount of salt in a huge pot will not change the taste. A negligible risk is one you can, for practical purposes, ignore. It is a rather formal, tidy word — reports, science, and careful speakers like it. In casual talk people more often say “tiny” or “it doesn’t matter.” Though actually, calling something negligible is already a judgment: you are saying it is safe to look away from it. That is why two people can argue about whether a cost or a risk truly is negligible.
微不足道；可忽略不計。
組成From negligence / negligent + -ible (“able to be”), as if from New Latin *negligibilis, from Latin neglegō (“to neglect”) + -ibilis (“-ible”). The idea is “small enough that you can neglect it.”
同家族的字
- negligencethe noun this adjective was built from
- negligentsame stem; but negligent means careless, not tiny
- neglectthe everyday English verb from the same Latin root
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。
negligibleadj/ˈnɛɡlɪd͡ʒɪbəl/
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Able to be neglected, ignored or excluded from consideration; too small or unimportant to be of concern.
- We found errors, but their effects were negligible.
- Mario Balotelli replaced Tevez but his contribution was so negligible that he suffered the indignity of being substituted himself as time ran out, a development that encapsulated a wretched 90 minutes for City and boss Roberto Mancini.
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。