slight

• adj. 轻微的，少量的；脆弱的；细长的；不重要的
• vt. 轻视，忽略；怠慢
• n. 怠慢；轻蔑

来自古英语种 sliht,光滑的，来自 Proto-Germanic*slihtaz,光滑的，来自 PIE*slei,滑的，词源 同 slime,slip.引申词义平的，引申比喻义轻微的，略微的。

来自 slight,平的，引申动词词义平等对待，后词义贬义化为冷淡对待，进一步恶化为轻视， 怠慢，侮辱。

1. a deliberate discourteous act (usually as an expression of anger or disapproval)

slight

slight: [13] The ancestral sense of slight is ‘level, even’. It goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *slekhtaz, a word of unknown origin which had that meaning, but whose descendants have diversified semantically beyond all recognition (German schlecht and Dutch slecht, for instance, now mean ‘bad’, having arrived there by way of ‘level, smooth’ and ‘simple, ordinary’). ‘Smooth’ was the original meaning of English slight (Miles Coverdale, in his 1535 translation of the Bible, recorded how David ‘chose five slight stones out of the river’ to confront Goliath with (1 Samuel 17:40), where the Authorized Version of 1611 has ‘smooth stones’), and it survived dialectally into the 20th century.

By the 14th century, however, it was evolving into ‘slim’, and this eventually became, in the early 16th century, ‘small in amount’. English acquired the adjective from Old Norse sléttr ‘smooth’, and Old Norse was also the original source of a verb slight [13], meaning ‘make level or smooth’. This died out in the 17th century, however, and the modern verb slight ‘disdain, snub’, first recorded at the end of the 16th century, is derived from the adjective, in the sense ‘of little importance’.

The noun comes from the verb.

slight (adj.)

early 14c., "flat, smooth; hairless," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse slettr "smooth, sleek," from Proto-Germanic *slikhtaz (cognates: Old Saxon slicht; Low German slicht "smooth, plain common;" Old English -sliht "level," attested in eorðslihtes "level with the ground;" Old Frisian sliucht "smooth, slight," Middle Dutch sleht "even, plain," Old High German sleht, Gothic slaihts "smooth"), probably from a collateral form of PIE *sleig- "to smooth, glide, be muddy," from root *(s)lei- "slimy" (see slime (n.)).

Sense evolution probably is from "smooth" (c. 1300), to "slim, slender; of light texture," hence "not good or strong; insubstantial, trifling, inferior, insignificant" (early 14c.). Meaning "small in amount" is from 1520s. Sense of German cognate schlecht developed from "smooth, plain, simple" to "bad, mean, base," and as it did it was replaced in the original senses by schlicht, a back-formation from schlichten "to smooth, to plane," a derivative of schlecht in the old sense [Klein].

slight (v.)

c. 1300, "make plain or smooth," from slight (adj.) Meaning "treat with indifference" (1590s) is from the adjective in sense of "having little worth." Related: Slighted; slighting.

slight (n.)

1550s, "small amount or weight," from slight (v.). Meaning "act of intentional neglect or ignoring out of displeasure or contempt" is from 1701, probably via 17c. phrase make a slight of (1610s).

lean, slender, slim, slight, thin

这些形容词均有"瘦的"之意。

lean： 侧重缺少脂肪。既可能是因病而瘦，也可能因饥饿而消瘦。也指身体消瘦，但肌肉结实，身体健康。

slender： 指身体细长、体态优美、苗条适中，多用于指女性。

slim： 指身体的细长，体重轻不着重外形的优美，可用于不同的性别，常用于减轻体重的人。

slight： 指身材又瘦又小。

thin： 普通用词，指腰细、骨架窄，常因疾病或疲劳而消瘦。

Great leaders recognize the weak signals or slight signs that point to big changes to come.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

This gives rats the ability to detect slight smells.

2017年12月四级真题（第一套）阅读 Section A

If Paris was cast aside, the tradition of beauty was also to some degree slighted.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show ( ' , CES), and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

But the Food and Drug Administration has not approved Avastin for use in the eye, and using it rather than the alternative, Lucentis, might carry an additional, although slight, safety risk.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

Scan the highlights of this year's Consumer Electronics Show CES, and you may get a slight feeling of having seen them before.

2016年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

The loss of shade trees is already causing a slight change in the world's climate, and studies show that loss of oxygen-giving trees also leads to air pollution and global warming.

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The weather forecast says it will be cloudy with a slight chance of rain later tonight.

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Mean while , many settles had slighter religious commitments than Dane’s, as one clergyman learned in confronting folk along the coast who mocked that they had not come to the New world for religion.

出自-2009年考研阅读原文

a slight increase/change/delay/difference

略微的增长 / 变化 / 拖延 / 差异

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I woke up with a slight headache.

我醒来时有点头痛。

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The damage was slight.

损失很小。

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She takes offence at the slightest thing (= is very easily offended) .

她动辄生气。

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There was not the slightest hint of trouble.

当时看不出丝毫会出现麻烦的迹象。

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a slight woman

瘦小的女子

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This is a very slight novel.

这是一部颇不足道的小说。

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He didn't seem to mind in the slightest.

他好像一点都不在乎。

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Nick took her comment as a slight on his abilities as a manager.

尼克认为她的话是藐视他当经理的能力。

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She felt slighted because she hadn't been invited.

她没有受到邀请，觉得受了冷落。

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[只用于名词前]slighting remarks

轻慢之语

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Doctors say he has made a slight improvement...

医生说他的病情稍有好转。

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We have a slight problem...

我们有一个小小的问题。

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She is smaller and slighter than Christie.

她比克里斯蒂瘦小。

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...a slight, bespectacled figure.

身材瘦小、戴着眼镜的人

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They felt slighted by not being adequately consulted.

没有充分征求他们的意见，这让他们感到被冷落了。

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That doesn't interest me in the slightest...

那一点也不能引起我的兴趣。

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'Do you worry about ageing?' — 'Not in the slightest.'

“你担心变老吗？”——“一点也不。”

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Interfaces describe a set of functionality, or a contract.

接口描述了一系列功能, 或者是约定.

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He has a slight Shandong accent.

他略微有些山东口音.

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The dial records very slight variations in pressure.

刻盘显示出压力有微小变化.

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He intimated his wishes with a slight nod of his head.

他微微点头示意.

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The slight change in the taste was imperceptible to most people.

这种味道的细微变化对大多数人而言是无法觉察的.

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