miniature是什么意思_miniature怎么读_中英文释义(含例句用法)

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.

词态变化

复数 miniatures;

权威造句

1. He activated the door with the miniature sonic transmitter.: 他用微型声波发射器开启了门。

2. His home in Bexley is tucked away in a miniature forest.: 他在贝克斯利的住宅坐落在一片小森林中。

3. If it can be done full-size, I can do it in miniature.: 如果可以做成与原物相同大小的，我就可以做成缩微的。

4. a rare breed of miniature horses: 一种罕见的小矮马

5. He"s giving a party in miniature on his birthday.: 他生日那天将举行一个小型晚会.

近反义词

in miniature 小规模

miniature golf 小小高尔夫球...

miniature casting 小铸件

miniature motor 微型电动机

miniature capacitor 微型电容器

miniature bulb 小灯泡

miniature chamber 前室,预热室,起动燃...

miniature film 微型胶卷

miniature tube 小型管,微型管...

miniature camera 小型照像机

miniature type 小型

miniature relay 小型继电器

miniature switch 微型开关

miniature bearing 微型轴承,超小型轴承...

miniature base 小型管底

miniature transformer 小型变压器

miniature component 超小型元件

miniature pig 小型猪

miniature set 小型装置

相似短语

in miniature adv.小型,小规模

miniature camera n.小型照像机

miniature chamber 前室

miniature design 小型设计

miniature earthquake 人工地震

miniature photomultiplier 小型光电倍增管，微型光电倍增管

miniature socket 微型套筒

miniature valve 微型管小型电子管

miniature bulb 小灯泡

miniature clad 小型包层

单词分析

这些形容词均有“小的”之意。
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。
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。
minute指小得难看见，有时需用显微镜才看得见。
miniature指由正常体积微缩的物体。

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