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minion

/min-yuhn/US // ˈmɪn yən //UK // (ˈmɪnjən) //

奴才,爪牙,仆人,奴仆

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a servile follower or subordinate of a person in power.
    • : a favored or highly regarded person.
    • : a minor official.
    • : Printing. a 7-point type.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : dainty; elegant; trim; pretty.

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Examples

  • A hearing is done, a law is passed, and it’s part of the game that politicians and their minions interpret the event with their own take.

  • I wonder if there is a polite way to ask her to say "please" or some equivalent, so I don't feel like her minion or unappreciated secretary.

  • The president and his minions were focused on other threats.

  • Instruct your minions to remove any extraneous branches, and sharpen one end of each stick with a pocketknife.

  • Pranab Mukherjee, a minion brought in primarily to help speed up bank loans to Sanjay, is currently the president of India.

  • Even worse, Rajiv Shah, the new head of USAID, is a Hillary “minion,” as one insider puts it, who has hardly put up a fight.

  • Falser than the Bank of Fancy, frailer than a shilling glove, Puppet to a father's anger, minion to a nabob's love!

  • The minion of a Czar and the representative of a nation cannot be united in one and the same person.

  • I was but planning with this minion here some way to freshen your spirits.

  • I will have a garment reach to my taille; Then am I a minion, for I wear the new guise.

  • It seemed as if he would scarce ever again discover the carnate dwelling-place of the haunting minion of his imagination.

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