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Slight Small   [Usu Ignore Slighted Slightly Adj Graded 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词

英语单词 slight
英美音标 [slait]
中文释义 adj.轻微的,微小的
v.不理睬
vocab简明 If you slight someone, you deliberately ignore her, or treat her with indifference. If your best friend walks past you in the hall without so much of a word, she has slighted you.
vocab扩展 All the meanings of Slight stem from the old Norse for small, or flimsy. If you have a slight build, you're slim with small bones. A slight deviation from your plan, is a tiny adjustment. As a verb, slight means to ignore or be indifferent toward someone; it's also the noun for the act of ignoring. If you directed a movie and the starlet doesn't thank you in her award acceptance speech, you'll be offended at the slight.
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1
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词]轻微的;少量的;小的 Something that is slight is very small in degree or quantity.
  [usu ADJ n]
  • Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...

    医生说他的病情稍有好转。

  • We have a slight problem...

    我们有一个小小的问题。

  • A slight smile flickered over his face...

    他的脸上闪过一丝微笑。

  • He's not the slightest bit worried.

    他一点儿也不担心。

2
[ADJ-GRADED 能被表示程度的副词或介词词组修饰的形容词](人)瘦弱的,瘦小的 A slight person has a fairly thin and delicate looking body.
  • She is smaller and slighter than Christie.

    她比克里斯蒂瘦小。

  • ...a slight, bespectacled figure.

    身材瘦小、戴着眼镜的人

slightly
  • ...a slightly built man.

    身材瘦小的男子

3
[VERB 动词]不理睬;藐视;轻蔑;冷落 If you are slighted, someone does or says something that insults you by treating you as if your views or feelings are not important.
  [feel V-ed]
  [usu passive]
  [usu with supp]
  • They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.

    没有充分征求他们的意见,这让他们感到被冷落了。

  • Slight is also a noun.
    • It isn't a slight on my husband that I enjoy my evening class.

      我喜欢上夜课并非是对丈夫的冷落。

slighting
  • ...slighting references to her age.

    谈到她的年纪时的轻蔑语气

4
[PHRASE 短语](用于加强陈述的否定语气)一点也(不) You use in the slightest to emphasize a negative statement.
  [with brd-neg]
  [emphasis]
  • That doesn't interest me in the slightest...

    那一点也不能引起我的兴趣。

  • 'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'

    “你担心变老吗?”——“一点也不。”

来源 2012.5

Tags: 单词::2012

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