tiny

adj. 微小的；很少的

n. (Tiny)人名；(葡、印)蒂尼

adj.

极小的，微小的；

n.

小孩子；[医]癣；

双语释义

极小的,微小的 very small

英英释义

tiny[ 'taini ]

adj.very small

"tiny feet"

同义词：bantamdiminutivelilliputianmidgetpetiteflyspeck

词汇搭配

用作形容词 (adj.)

～+名词

tiny child幼小的孩子

tiny majority微弱多数

tiny minority极少数

tiny baby个儿小的婴儿

tiny changes细微的改动

tiny grains of gold黄金细末

tiny mountain极小的山

tiny town极小的城镇

词组短语

tiny amount微小额

tiny island小岛

tiny baby个儿小的婴儿

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.)

A tiny fishing boat was drifting slowly along.
一只小小的渔船在缓缓地漂去。

We're struggling along on a tiny income.
我们依靠极少的收入过活。

She has a tiny mole on her cheek.
她面颊上有一颗小痣。

The baby's dress was beautifully tucked with tiny stitches.
婴儿衫的褶裥打得针脚细密，很漂亮。

The path led to a tiny village perched on the steep sides of a mountain.
那条小路通向坐落在陡峭的山坡上的小村庄。

权威例句

tiny (adj.)

1590s, from tyne "very small" (c. 1400, perhaps from tine) + -y (2).

1. The diagram is a representation of all the rooms in the facility. Color-coding indicates male, female, empty, or mixed-gender rooms; numbers indicate empty beds; tiny boxes between rooms indicate shared bathrooms.

图表代表设施中的所有房间，颜色编码指示男性、女性、空置或男女混住的房间；数字表示空置的床位；房间之间的小框代表共享的浴室。

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2. We are saved once again by ToolTips. Those tiny, pop-up windows give us just enough text to disambiguate the butcon without permanently consuming too many pixels.

工具提示再次挽救了我们，那些小的弹出窗口给了我们足够的文本来澄清对图标按钮的困惑，而不需要长期占据太多像素。

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3. In some versions, you can even drag tiny window thumbnails from one desktop to another.

在一些版本中，你甚至可以将这些微型窗口从一个桌面拖到另一个桌面。

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4. If a user can keep the mouse button within three pixels of the mouse-down point, the entire click action is interpreted as a selection command, and all tiny, spurious moves are ignored.

如果用户能够保持鼠标按键在按下位置的3个像素之内，整个的单击动作被视为选择命令。 而所有小幅度且无意识的移动将被忽略，对象不再颤动。

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5. Libraries are great complexes of tiny items.

图书馆是细小类目的大综合体。

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6. Scenarios provide an inherently top-down approach to interaction design. They iterate through successively more detailed design structures, from main screens down to tiny subpanes or dialogs.

场景剧本提供了一个一致且自上而下的交互设计方法，从主界面到细微的小窗口和对话框，场景剧本反复运用在越来越细致的设计结构上。

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7. Transient applications are not the place for tiny scrollbars and fussy mouse interactions. Keep demands on the user’s fine motor skills down to a minimum.

微小的滚动条和精细的鼠标操作并不适合用在暂时式应用程序上，而应该尽可能少地让用户进行精细运动的操作。

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8. In the hardware world, controls like pushbuttons that have mechanical contacts can exhibit what engineers call bounce, which means that the tiny metal contacts of the switch literally bounce when someone presses them.

在硬件方面，像按钮那样的控件有机械接触时就会表现出工程师称之为“颤动”的特性。 即当有人按压开关的小金属触点，它们就会颤动。

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9. Users must find out by trial and error or by referring to the tiny icons next to the knobs. The unnaturalness of the mapping compels users to figure this relationship out anew every time they use the stove.

用户必须通过试验或者参考旋钮下的图标来确定，这种不自然的映射迫使用户在每次使用气炉时都不得不重新确定映射关系。

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10. Individual troop and civilian units also show status visually, by way of tiny meters showing unit health and strength.

人群和市民团体也有视觉化地显示状态，通过小计量器的方式表明团体的健康和力量。

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