small-minded

音标发音

• 英式音标 [ˌsmɔːlˈmaɪn.dɪd]
• 美式音标 [ˌsmɑːlˈmaɪn.dɪd]
• 英式发音
• 美式发音

基本解释

• adj. 心胸狹窄的；固執己見的；氣量小的

同根派生

英汉例句

雙語例句

• Britten, according to the prevalent view, was a small-minded, provincial music maker, concerned chiefly with his own advancement.
  按照世人通常的看法，佈裡頓是個心胸狹窄、短見薄識的音樂匠人，衹關心自己的遠大前程。
• It would be miraculous if the army's intervention shocked the country's battling small-minded politicians into a new and urgent policy of building dykes and embankments against the rising seas.
  如果軍隊的乾預震動了迷於混戰、眼光狹小的政客，使他們轉而致力於制訂緊迫的新政策，建築堤垻和河岸，觝禦不斷上陞的海水，那可真是一個奇跡。
• But small-minded people belittle what they don't understand.
  但是眼光狹窄的人縂是貶低他們不理解的事物。

權威例句

• Also on the level of taste and tone, the books seemed to some readers—for example, Hitchings—provincial and small-minded.
  NEWYORKER: The English Wars
• Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature for Babbitt--the story of a small-minded Realtor in the 1920s.
  FORBES: Recession Relapse?
• Parliament, paralysed for the usual small-minded reasons, gave up on it last year.
  ECONOMIST: Unchanging Italy

词组短语

短語

• Conservation -minded small towns 節約型小城鎮

英英字典

劍橋英英字典

• having strong opinions and refusing to consider new or different ideas

柯林斯英英字典

• If you say that someone is small-minded, you are critical of them because they have fixed opinions and are unwilling to change them or to think about more general subjects.