iota
iota 英 [aɪˈəʊtə] 美 [aɪˈoʊtə]
n. 极微小；希腊语的第九个字母
名词复数:iotas
- If you don't care one iota about something, it means you don’t care about it even one little bit. An iota is something very small.
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- n. 极微小；希腊语的第九个字母
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1. "They are indeed receding and the rate is causefor great concern… [but the claim is] not based on an iota ofscientific evidence, " he said.
“冰川确实在后退，而且其速度引起人们极大关注……（但是，这个断言）没有一点科学证据的基础。” 他说。
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2. Ahmadinejad says he will not retreat "one iota" on the matter, which means he will stay at the top of the west's foreign policy agenda for the foreseeable future.
内贾德称在核计划的问题上他的立场将毫不动摇，这就意味着，这可以预见的将来，他仍将是西方世界外交议事日程上的头号“问题男”。
- iota (n.) "very small amount," 1630s, figurative use of iota, ninth and smallest letter in the Greek alphabet (corresponding to Latin -i-). Its use in this sense is after Matthew v.18 (see jot (n.), which is the earlier form of the name in English), but iota in classical Greek also was proverbially used of anything very small. The letter name is from Semitic (compare Phoenician and Hebrew yodh).
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