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They receive severe penalties for committing minor offenses.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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The kind of shopping—where you hand over notes and count out change in return—now happens only in the most minor of our retail encounters, like buying a bar of chocolate or a pint of milk from a corner shop.
出自-2015年12月阅读原文
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Today, there is a serious question about this issue: Should there be a minimum age limit for executing criminals? In other words, is it right for convicted murderers who kill when they are minors—that is under the age of 18—to receive the death penalty?.
出自-2015年12月听力原文
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This caused minor damage to his truck and serious damage to the car.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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Damage to the truck, however, was minor
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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There wss damage to the mailboxes and minor damage to the truck.
出自-2013年12月听力原文
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However, David Reay, professor of carbon management, argues that, although microwaves use a great deal of energy, their emissions are minor compared to those from cars.
2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section C
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In the state of South Carolina, a convicted murderer was given the death penalty for a crime he committed while he was a minor.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The company's self-driving cars have done well over a million miles across various states in the U.S., and until now have only reported minor accidents.
2017年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
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The lawyer argued that it is wrong to execute a person for a crime he committed while he was a minor.
2015年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C
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The average budget for a major kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54,000; even a minor improvement cost on average $18,000.
出自-2016年6月阅读原文
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They range from minor cases of deliberate damaging of things to much more serious offenses, such as car accidents involving drunk drivers or bank robberies but Florence has to report all of these violations from the thief who took typewriters from every unlock room in the dormitory to the thief who stole one million dollars worth of art work from the university museum.
出自-2011年6月听力原文
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So, children with minor self-control problems were likely as adults to have minor health problems, and so on.
2016年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C
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The average budget for a "major" kitchen overhaul in 2006, calculates Remodeling magazine, was a staggering $54, 000; even a "minor" improvement cost on average$18, 000.
2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C
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The reality is, taking one's phone out at the wrong time is worse than belching because, unlike other minor offense, checking tech is contagious.
2017年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B
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ADJ-GRADED
不重要的;不严重的;次要的
You use minor when you want to describe something that is less important, serious, or significant than other things in a group or situation.
例句
She is known in Italy for a number of minor roles in films...
她因在电影中饰演了一些配角而在意大利为人所知。
Western officials say the problem is minor, and should be quickly overcome.
西方官员称这个问题并不严重,应该很快就会解决。
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ADJ-GRADED
(疾病)不严重的,轻微的;(手术)小的
A minor illness or operation is not likely to be dangerous to someone's life or health.
例句
Sarah had been plagued continually by a series of minor illnesses...
萨拉一直小病缠身。
His mother had to go to the hospital for minor surgery.
他母亲得去医院做一个小手术。
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ADJ
小音阶的;小调的
In European music, a minor scale is one in which the third note is three semitones higher than the first.
例句
...the unfinished sonata movement in F minor.
未完成的F小调奏鸣曲乐章
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N-COUNT
未成年人(在英国和美国多数州指未满18岁的人,在法律上仍然视为儿童)
A minor is a person who is still legally a child. In Britain and most states in the United States, people are minors until they reach the age of eighteen.
例句
The approach has virtually ended cigarette sales to minors.
这个方法实际上杜绝了向未成年人出售香烟的现象。
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(美国大学学科中的)辅修科目,辅修课程
At a university or college in the United States, a student's minor is a subject that they are studying in addition to their main subject, or major.
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(美国大学中的)辅修生
At a university or college in the United States, if a student is, for example, a geology minor, they are studying geology as well as their main subject.
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VERB
辅修
If a student at a university or college in the United States minors in a particular subject, they study it in addition to their main subject.
例句
I'm minoring in computer science.
我辅修计算机科学。