negligible

英 [ˈneɡlɪdʒəbl]

美 [ˈneɡlɪdʒəbl]

adj.  微不足道的; 不重要的; 不值一提的

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Collins.1 / BNC.8612 / COCA.12050

牛津词典

adj.

• 微不足道的；不重要的；不值一提的
  of very little importance or size and not worth considering
  1. The cost was negligible.
     费用不大，无关紧要。
  2. a negligible amount
     很小的量

柯林斯词典

• ADJ-GRADED 微不足道的;可忽略不计的
  An amount or effect that isnegligibleis so small that it is not worth considering or worrying about.
  1. The pay that the soldiers received was negligible...
     士兵拿到的军饷少得可怜。
  2. Senior managers are convinced that the strike will have a negligible impact.
     高层主管们相信罢工的影响微不足道。

英英释义

adj

• so small as to be meaningless
  1. the effect was negligible
• not worth considering
  1. he considered the prize too paltry for the lives it must cost
  2. piffling efforts
  3. a trifling matter
  Synonym:paltrytrifling

双语例句

• But growth is rare in states that have negligible economic expansion.
  但在几乎看不到经济扩张的国家，增长十分罕见。
• The economic cost to the rich would be negligible and the social gains enormous.
  富人的经济成本可以忽略不计，而社会收益将是巨大的。
• There's no friction, and the spring itself has negligible mass compared to this one.
  没有摩擦，因此弹簧本身的重力，与物体质量相比，可以忽略。
• The storage for which the latency ( waiting time) is negligible at all times.
  和所有其它操作时间相比，其等待时间可以忽略的存储器。
• There is a negligible difference in meaning between these two words.
  这两个词之间在意思上差别是极小的。
• He is a negligible person in the government.
  在政府中他是个微不足道的人。
• The chance that an electron absorbs more than one photon is negligible.
  一个电子吸收一个以上的光子的机会是极少的。
• It has negligible impact on performance and monitors continuously system behavior with regards to heap usage.
  它对性能的影响非常小，可以连续地监视与堆使用情况相关的系统行为。
• The inertia terms and those relating to conduction in the X direction were also negligible.
  惯性项和那些与X方向的导热有关的项也被略去。
• The cost and complexity for each deployment become negligible.
  每个部署的成本和复杂性变得微不足道。