tiny

• adj. 微小的；很少的
• n. (Tiny)人名；(葡、印)蒂尼

可能来自 tine,尖刺，-y,形容词后缀。引申词义极小的，微小的。

1. very small;

"diminutive in stature"

"a lilliputian chest of drawers"

"her petite figure"

"tiny feet"

"the flyspeck nation of Bahrain moved toward democracy"

tiny (adj.)

1590s, from tyne "very small" (c. 1400, perhaps from tine) + -y (2).

little, small, tiny, minute, miniature

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。

Chast's designs, such as a worried man alone in a tiny rowboat, reflect that delicateness.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

But as it turns out, waiters see only a tiny bump in tips when they do an exceptional job compared to a passable one.

出自-2016年12月阅读原文

Did you know that besides larger places like France and Germany, Europe is home to several extremely tiny countries? One of these countries contains less than a square mile of land.

出自-2016年12月听力原文

Houses built before 1939 use about 50% more energy per square foot than those built after 2000, mainly due to the tiny cracks and gaps that expand over time and let in more outside air.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

And no matter how tiny it is, it's still good news.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section B

When muscles perform an activity they aren't regularly expose to, the tiny fibers that are inside them are being torn apart.

2019年12月四级真题（第一套）听力 Section C

within the Alps in central Europe is Liechtenstein, a tiny country of about 30, 000 people who speak mostly German.

2016年12月四级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

Tennessee State's overall graduation rate is a tiny 39 percent, but at least it has a smaller gap between the outcomes for first-generation students and those of their peers.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

"Once we scale up, algorithms must be sensitive to tiny changes in identities and at the same time invariant to lighting, pose, age," Kemelmacher-Shlizerman said.

2018年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section C

Even when a tiny number grows by a large percentage terms, it is often still tiny.

2019年6月六级真题（第一套）阅读 Section B

For a brief moment during that stage of its life cycle, the tongue consists of two tiny half-tubes before merging into one.

2018年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section B

Out of curiosity, I paid a visit to Sainz Breeze as I put my hand into a packet of crickets with their tiny eyes and legs.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section B

That presumably included much more water than the tiny trace we find blowing in the thick air today.

2019年6月六级真题（第二套）听力 Section C

The level of emissions they cause will depend on how the electricity to run them is generated, while brakes, tyres and toads all create tiny airborne particles as they wear out.

2019年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

The tiny island nation has set aside 500, 000 square kilometers 80 percent—of its maritime territory, for full protection.

2017年12月六级真题（第二套）阅读 Section A

At the heart of the phenomenon lie tiny marine microorganisms (海洋微生物) called phytoplankton.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

My husband was ordered out on a long-term duty, and I was left in a tiny shack alone.

2016年高考英语浙江卷（6月） 完形填空 原文

When I was a little girl, my family moved to a tiny town at the bottom of a big mountain.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读表达 原文

With great interest, he read everything he could lay his hands on, listened to the town elders and learned about the world beyond his tiny hometown.

2015年高考英语福建卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

In his book The Tipping Point,Malcolm Aladuell argues that social epidemics are driven in large part by the acting of a tiny minority of special individuals,often called influentials,who are unusually informed,persuasive,or well-connected.

出自-2010年考研阅读原文

It was a year before she became head of a tiny Internet-based commodities exchange.

出自-2011年考研阅读原文

He was searching for tiny engraved seals attributed to the ancient Mycenaean culture that dominated Greece from the 1400s to 1200s BC.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

In his book The tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell argues that "social epidemics" are driven in large part by the actions of a tiny minority of special individuals, often called influentials, who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well-connected.

2010年考研真题（英语一）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

It is not that pink intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls' identity to appearance.

2012年考研真题（英语二）阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

a tiny baby

纤弱的婴儿

牛津词典

Only a tiny minority hold such extreme views.

只有极少数人持这样极端的观点。

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The living room is tiny...

起居室非常小。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

Though she was tiny, she had a very loud voice...

她虽然个头小，嗓音却非常洪亮。

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One said he could not see anything except the blue of the sky.

其中一个说除了蓝色的天空,他不看到任何东西.

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The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of ￡4 billion.

那位部长呼吁内阁不要以她40亿英镑这样相对小额的预算为批评目标.

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My clothes won't all go into that tiny suitcase.

那个小衣箱装不下我所有的衣物.

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Strong fingers encircled her tiny wrists.

强有力的手指箍着她那细小的手腕.

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The bed and the toilet were the only furnishings in the tiny cell.

床和马桶是这小单人禁闭室内惟一的陈设.

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I live in a tiny cottage.

我住在一间极小的茅屋里.

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It was easy to believe that the tiny hamlet held some great mystery.

很容易让人相信这个小村庄藏着重大谜团.

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The tiny kitten approached the enormous bear and let out a purr and a mew.

那猫却走近体大腰圆的灰熊,冲它“喵呜“,“喵呜“地叫着.

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There's no need to make a song and dance about a tiny scratch on the car.

没有必要为汽车上的一点刮痕而唠叨个没完.

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An individual is only a tiny grain in the vast sea; it is the masses of people that are the boundless ocean.

个人只是沧海的一粟, 人民群众才是无垠的大海.

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A tiny insect , trying to shake a mighty tree, is ludicrously ignorant of its own weakness.

蚍蜉撼大树, 可笑不自量.

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She had a tiny mole on her cheek.

她的面颊上有一颗小黑痣.

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Look, we have only this tiny bit left.

瞧, 我们只剩这么一点点了.

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The cottage is tiny, but it's charming.

这间小屋虽小，却十分迷人。

《牛津高阶英汉双解词典》

Snip a tiny hole in the paper.

在纸上剪一个小孔。

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I met one woman whose tiny baby had just died and whose other child was fighting for its life.

我遇到了一个女人，她那一点点大的小宝宝刚刚死去，另一个孩子也在死亡线上挣扎。

柯林斯例句

His attempts to peddle his paintings around London's tiny gallery scene proved unsuccessful.

他到伦敦小画廊兜售自己的画作，结果碰了一鼻子灰。

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"Here we are now," Beth said, as the train clanked into a tiny station.

火车咣当咣当进了小站，“我们到站了，”贝丝说。

柯林斯例句

The proposition that democracies do not fight each other is based on a tiny historical sample.

认为民主国家互不争斗的观点是以一个极小的历史样本为根据的。

柯林斯例句

Above him, in a niche on the wall, sat a tiny veiled Ganesh, the elephant god.

在他上方墙上的壁龛里安放着一尊极小的蒙面象头神伽内什的塑像。

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Genes are those tiny bits of biological information swapped in sexual reproduction.

基因是在有性繁殖中交换的微小生物信息。

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The crop represents a tiny fraction of U.S. production.

农作物仅占美国出产物极小的一部分。

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The living room is tiny.

起居室非常小。

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Don't worry about tiny fluctuations in your weight.

不要为体重的细微变化担心。

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