miniature

adj. 微型的，小规模的

n. 缩图；微型画；微型图画绘画术

vt. 是…的缩影

adj.

小型的，微小的；

n.

微型复制品；微小模型；微型画；微型人像画

vt.

使成小型；把…画成纤细画；缩写；

变形

复数：miniatures

双语释义

[A]小型的,微小的 very small

[C]微型复制品,微小模型 very small copy or model of sth

[C]微型画,微型人像画 very small detailed painting, usually of a person

英英释义

miniature[ 'miniətʃə ]

n.

painting or drawing included in a book (especially in illuminated medieval manuscripts)

同义词：illumination

copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size

同义词：toy

adj.being on a very small scale

"a miniature camera"

词组短语

in miniature小型；小规模

miniature schnauzer迷你雪纳瑞

miniature golf小型高尔夫游戏；小小高尔夫球

miniature bearing微型轴承

miniature circuit breaker小型断路器；微型电路继电器；保险丝壳；跳菲

miniature camera n. 小型照像机

同近义词辨析

这组词都有“小的”的意思，其区别是：

minute指小得难看见，有时需用显微镜才看得见。

tiny强调与同类或其他物体比较，小得超出正常比例，有时带强烈的感情色彩。

little指在体积、数量、距离、年龄、身材等方面比正常的小，多带主观感情色彩，含小而可爱或小巧的意味。

small多指数量、面积、体积、价值、数字或意义等的小或少，指略小于正常的大小。

miniature指由正常体积微缩的物体。

双语例句

用作形容词(adj.)

The little girl has a miniature camera.
小女孩有个小型照相机。

The child was playing with his miniature railway.
这孩子正在玩他的小型玩具铁路。

The room resembled a miniature battlefield.
这个房间很像一个缩小了的战场。

用作名词(n.)

She is just like her mother in miniature.
她简直是她母亲的缩影。

The miniature, which she had been holding in her hand, fell down upon the floor.
她一直握在手中的那个小画像,落在了地板上。

He showed me the miniature of the mansion.
他给我显示了大厦的模型。

He owns a detailed miniature of the Titanic.
他有一艘泰坦尼克号的精致小模型。

权威例句

miniature

miniature: [16] ‘Smallness’ is a purely secondary semantic development as far as miniature is concerned, inspired by its accidental similarity to the min- element of words like minimum and minute. It in fact comes ultimately from Latin minium ‘red lead’. Red lead was used in ancient and medieval times for making a sort of red ink with which manuscripts were decorated, and so the derived medieval Latin verb miniāre was coined for ‘illuminate a manuscript’.Italian took this over as miniare, and derived miniatura ‘painting, illustrating’ from it. It referred particularly to the small paintings in manuscripts, and when English borrowed it as miniature it was soon broadened out to any ‘small image’. Association with minute, etc led by the early 18th century to its adjectival use for ‘small’.

miniature (n.)

1580s, "a reduced image," from Italian miniatura "manuscript illumination or small picture," from past participle of miniare "to illuminate a manuscript," from Latin miniare "to paint red," from minium "red lead," used in ancient times to make red ink, a word said to be of Iberian origin. Sense development is because pictures in medieval manuscripts were small, but no doubt there was influence as well from the similar-sounding Latin words that express smallness: minor, minimus, minutus, etc.

miniature (adj.)

"small," 1714, from minature (n.). Of dog breeds, from 1889. Of golf, from 1893.

1. an exact miniature of

和…完全相象的缩影

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

2. It is very useful to use a miniature reflex camera.

使用小型反光镜照相机很有用。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

3. Paris is France in miniature.

巴黎是法国的缩影。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

4. There was a string of tiny clouds shaped like miniature plump sausages.

附近一抹微云形如一串鼓鼓囊囊的小香肠。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

5. "It looks like a miniature of the Hoover Building."

“它看上去很象一座微型的诶德加胡佛大楼。”

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

6. He selected miniature editions of himself-men and women with no political past.

他选择了和他自己完全相仿的男女工作人员，这些人过去没有什么政治背景。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

7. Meggie dropped to her knees, scrabbling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more damage was done them.

麦琪弯下腰努力地将要遭到进一步损害的衣服抢了出来。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

8. The atomic structure is often compared to a miniature solar system.

原子结构时常被比喻为微型太阳系。

-- 来源 -- 英汉 - 辞典例句

9. It shines a very bright light through a translucent, miniature image for a fraction of a second.

它发出一束很亮的光线透过半透明的微缩图像，持续大约若干分之一秒的时间。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓

10. It then blocks out the light for a split second while it moves another miniature image into place. Then it unblocks the light again for another moment.

然后在下一幅微缩图像就位前挡住光线，下一幅图像就位后再次投射光线。

-- 来源 -- About Face 3交互设计精髓