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negligible

/neg-li-juh-buhl/US // ˈnɛg lɪ dʒə bəl //UK // (ˈnɛɡlɪdʒəbəl) //

可忽略不计,可以忽略不计,微不足道,可忽略不计的

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adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : so small, trifling, or unimportant that it may safely be neglected or disregarded: The extra expenses were negligible.

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Examples

  • The fact that we are seeing negligible flu seasons in other countries, which count their flu cases differently than we do, is part of the reason why.

  • They pill a little bit on the inner waistband, but it’s pretty negligible, and the fleece itself is almost ridiculously plush and warm.

  • Overall, retailers think that the percentage of consumers who do this purposefully is negligible.

  • Overall, that would still just mean budget getting reallocated so the overall impact would be negligible.

  • The other nine states either use negligible amounts to compensate victims or do not specify whether any money goes to victims.

  • But they say its effect on the regular daily operation of organized crime has been negligible.

  • Never mind that the effects of correction are bound to be negligible or, worse, counterproductive.

  • The results showed that while THC and alcohol combined impaired driving, THC had only a negligible effect on driving.

  • While originating from cannabis sativa, like pot, it contains only a negligible amount of THC (the psychedelic chemical in weed).

  • Drake says the company led him to believe any expenses would be negligible.

  • That Bierce could not paint the large canvas does not make him negligible or even inconsiderable.

  • The other man was negligible—a bovine lump of flesh without personality—born to hew wood and draw water for men of enterprise.

  • Not from the glycerin, surely, for even granting that glycerin has food value the amount present is so small as to be negligible.

  • Consider a certain star, and suppose for the moment that its size is negligible.

  • The passing foreign population, though there was a certain number of English attracted by cheap living, was almost negligible.