insignificant

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌɪn.sɪɡˈnɪf.ɪ.kənt]
• 美式音标 [ˌɪn.sɪɡˈnɪf.ə.kənt]
• 国际音标 [,insig'nifikənt]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj.无关紧要的；可忽略的；不重要的；无用的

词根记忆

• in(无) + significant(有意义的，重要的)→无关紧要的，无意义的
• in(无) + signifi(意味着) + cant→无意义的

同根派生

英汉例句

双语例句

• All this to say the workload is not insignificant.
  现在来看这工作量不是无关紧要的。
• Nevertheless, the fact that all of these insignificant changes were upward was, itself, statistically significant.
  然而，这些微不足道的变化是向上增的这一事实本身就很显著。
• But then he put them under a microscope and noticed that each of these small, insignificant shells had a tiny hole in its lip.
  但后来，他把它们放在显微镜下观察，发现每个这些小小的，微不足道的贝壳唇部都有一个小孔。

原声例句

• And scholars have come to the realization that despite the Bible's pretensions to the contrary, the Israelites were a small, and I've actually overrepresented it here, I'm sure it should be much smaller, a small and relatively insignificant group for much of their history.
  学者们已经意识到,与圣经中虚荣的记述相反，犹太人是个小群体，实际上我这里把它画的太大了，他们实际上应该还要小得多，与他们的历史比起来,是很小，且相对来说无关紧要的。
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• We are also put in mind of how the war is, in fact, anything but a revel, though it, too, may have been provoked by a cause as insignificant and hard to trace as "some wizard vermin."
  我们同样也思考事实上战争，只是一场狂欢，尽管它有可能,是由一个毫不重要难以追踪的“一些害虫“引起的“
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权威例句

• How dare they say as they do, this was a very small insignificant amount of Mercury.
  FORBES: Why Salon's Autism Retraction Matters
• There are some insignificant differences, though more in emphasis and intent, than in real effect.
  FORBES: The LDP's "Shadow" Budget Priorities

词组短语

短语

• So insignificant 如此无用;多么微不足道;如此无力;太过无关紧要了
• insignificant error 不显着误差
• completely insignificant 一钱不值
• How Insignificant 多么微不足道
• insignificant alterations 小变动

英英字典

剑桥英英字典

• small or not noticeable, and therefore not considered important

柯林斯英英字典

• Something that is insignificant is unimportant, especially because it is very small.

专业释义

计算机科学技术

• 无关紧要的