minor
minor 英 [ˈmaɪnə(r)] 美 [ˈmaɪnɚ]
adj. 次要的； n. 未成年人；辅修科目
名词复数:minors
- Something that's minor is considered of low importance — a minor injury is not very serious, and a college student's minor subject is a secondary field of study. Likewise, the star constellation Ursa Major is a larger grouping than Ursa Minor.
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- adj. 次要的；
- n. 未成年人；辅修科目
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1. a minor road
小路
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2. minor injuries
轻伤
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3. to undergo minor surgery
做小手术
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4. youths imprisoned for minor offences
因犯轻罪而被关押的年轻人
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5. It is an offence to serve alcohol to minors.
向未成年人提供含酒精的饮料是违法的。
- minor (adj.) early 13c., menour "Franciscan" (see minor (n.)), from Latin minor "less, lesser, smaller, junior," figuratively "inferior, less important," formed as a masculine/feminine form of minus on the mistaken assumption that minus was a neuter comparative, from PIE root *mei- (2) "small."
- minor (n.) early 14c., "a Franciscan," from Latin Fratres Minores "lesser brethren," name chosen by St. Francis, who founded the order, for the sake of humility; see minor (adj.). From c. 1400 as "minor premise of a syllogism." From 1610s as "person under legal age" (Latin used minores (plural) for "the young"). Musical sense is from 1797. Meaning "secondary subject of study, subject of study with fewer credits than a major" is from 1890; as a verb in this sense from 1934.
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