slight
slight 英 [slaɪt] 美 [slaɪt]
adj. 细小的，少量的；不重要的 vt. 轻视；怠慢 n. 轻视；怠慢
进行时:slighting 过去式:slighted 过去分词:slighted 第三人称单数:slights 名词复数:slights 比较级:slighter 最高级:slightest
- Anything slight is very small. There's a slight chance you'll run into a celebrity in New York City — in other words, don't count on it. A slight is also an insult, like giving someone the cold shoulder. Burr.
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- adj. 细小的，少量的；不重要的
- vt. 轻视；怠慢
- n. 轻视；怠慢
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1. a slight increase, a slight change, a slight delay, a slight difference
略微的增长╱变化╱拖延╱差异
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2. The damage was slight.
损失很小。
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3. This is a very slight novel.
这是一部颇不足道的小说。
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4. She felt slighted because she hadn't been invited.
她没有受到邀请，觉得受了冷落。
- slight (adj.) early 14c., "flat, smooth; hairless," probably from a Scandinavian source akin to Old Norse slettr "smooth, sleek," from Proto-Germanic *slikhtaz (source also of 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.)).
- 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).
- 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.
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