miniature

英 ['mɪnɪtʃə] 美['mɪnətʃɚ]

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

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中文词源

miniature 缩微模型，微型画，细密画

来自意大利语miniatura,小插图，小插画，来自拉丁语miniare,涂红，来自minium,红铅。一种古罗马时期的红色涂料，类似于朱砂，在古代用于给手稿绘制插图，引申词义缩微模型，微型画等。并由该词衍生于常见前缀mini-,小的，短的。

miniature 缩微模型，微型画，细密画

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复数: miniatures;

英文词源

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.

双语例句

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.

英英释意

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

2. copy that reproduces something in greatly reduced size

考试真题

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks ( ' , 鹳) from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

Just like drones before them, miniature satellites are beginning to fundamentally transform our conceptions of who gets to do what up above our heads.

Researchers in Germany used miniature GPS tags to track the migrations of 70 white storks from different sites across Europe and Asia during the first five months of their lives.

实用场景例句

miniature roses: 小玫瑰花

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

It looks like a miniature version of James Bond's car.: 它看上去像一辆小型的詹姆斯·邦德的汽车。

brandy miniatures (= very small bottles): 小瓶白兰地

a doll's house with everything in miniature: 样样东西都很小的玩具小房子

Through play, children act out in miniature the dramas of adult life.: 通过游戏，孩子们演出了成年人生活的缩影。

...miniature roses...: 小玫瑰花

He looked like a miniature version of his handsome and elegant big brother.: 他看上去就像是他那个英俊儒雅的哥哥的迷你版。

Ecuador provides a perfect introduction to South America; it's a continent in miniature...: 厄瓜多尔是认识南美洲的绝佳切入点，它是南美大陆的缩影。

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。

Miniature furniture, for example, was discovered in the pyramids of Egypt.: 比如, 曾在埃及的金字塔中发现了袖珍家具.

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

Crown variegated dark green, yellow and beige, plain. Miniature.: 深绿色, 黄色和灰褐色组合成的皇冠斑叶, 一般型叶. 迷你型.

In the museum there is a miniature of the ship Mayflower.: 博物馆里陈列着“五月花号”船的缩小模型.

Paris is France in miniature.: 巴黎是法国的缩影.

Meaning : Anything of a small, reduced, or miniature size.: 任何一个小, 减少或微型尺码.

On the display a miniature of the magnificent Eiffel Tower.: 展出的有宏伟的埃菲尔铁塔的微型模型.

Variegated green and white, plain. Miniature.: 绿色和白色组合成的斑叶, 叶面平坦. 迷你型.

Single bright pink. Dark green, plain. Miniature.: 单瓣明亮的粉红色花. 深绿色一般型叶. 迷你型.

The paper introduces electric control design for miniature full automatic packager.: 介绍了一种小型全自动包装机的电气控制电路设计.

Johnson: Yes, that's the one. And she took two miniature nuclear shells along with her.: 约翰逊: 是的, 就是她. 她还带走了两枚微型核弹头.

With a flourish I put a miniature pinecone on his head.: 我一挥手把一个微型松果按在雪人的头上.

So he spent the next five hours painstakingly working with clay to create a miniature bike.: 随后的5个小时,罗恩精心地用胶泥制作一辆微型自行车.

The art of Biblical miniature painting has a history of a thousand years.: 圣经微型画艺术已有1000年的历史.

Games are real life in miniature.: 游戏是现实生活的缩影.

I have a detailed miniature of the Titanic.: 我有一个“泰坦尼克”号的精细模型.

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