minor
US:/ˈmaɪnər/
UK:/ˈmaɪnə(r)/
adj.:
小…；【乐】小调的；较次的；未成年的
n.:
【乐】小调；【法】未成年者；【天主】方济各派修道士；(美大学)副科
v.:
(美大学)兼修
网络:
副修；较小的；次要的
Word forms: (复数) minors (现在分词) minoring (过去式) minored
Examples
1.
I wanted to send a thank-you note as I'd been raised to do, to feel as if I could return the gift in some minor yet tangible way.
我也想过寄一封感谢信，正如我的教养所要求的，去感受一下可否我以某些微小而又实质的方式，回馈礼物。
2.
Terry had a minor knee problem, but it was not serious enough that it would have prevented him from playing a regular-season game.
尽管特里的膝盖有点小问题，但并没有严重到让他无法在常规赛中上场。
3.
No mater how great or minor the task is, just do it firmly as long as you think you can manage it. That is the fine temperament.
无论大事还是小事，只要自己认为办得到的，就坚定地去办。这就是性格——歌德。
4.
Foley's attorneys have said the former lawmaker never had inappropriate sexual contact with a minor.
福利的律师团称这位前立法者从未和未成年人有过不对的性接触。
5.
Finally, on the forty-seventh ballot, support began to increase for one of the minor candidates. His name was Franklin Pierce.
最后，在第47轮投票中，支持者开始将票投向一位年轻的参选人，他的名字叫富兰克林.皮尔斯。
6.
Until Nov. 1, when El Mahroug turned 18, the press carefully pixilated part of her face in an attempt to protect the privacy of a minor.
为了保护未成年人的隐私权，直到11月1日马鲁格满18岁前，各家媒体都小心翼翼地对照片中进行了脸部模糊处理。
7.
It was a statement, not a hope; there had been a minor fracture, but Aziraphale couldn't resist an opportunity to do good.
这是个祝福，而不是什么希望；本来有个小小的骨裂的，但是，亚茨拉斐尔实在抵挡不住任何行善的机会。
8.
Yep, everything in Greece and Asia Minor, my churches are all doing great, I got to get out of here, my work here is done.
是的，希腊和小亚细亚，我建立的教会都很兴旺，我要离开，这里的使命完成。
9.
Apologists for religion point to the Sistine Chapel and Bach's Mass in B minor as some sort of justification for it.
辩护者提到西斯廷教堂与巴赫的B小调弥撒作为为宗教辩护的理由。
10.
You're nothing but a minor character in your own story. But you know, that's just not so.
但是你知道，其实并非如此，里面的字字句句，其实都是我自己的写照。