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i·o·ta
aI o t
"非常少的数量",1630年代,希腊字母表中第九个也是最小的字母 iota(对应拉丁字母 -i-)的比喻用法。它在这个意义上的使用是在马太福音5:18之后(参见 jot(n.),这是英语中名称的早期形式),但在古希腊中, iota 也被谚语般地用于任何非常小的东西。这个字母的名称来自闪族语言(比较腓尼基语和希伯来语 yodh)。
希腊语第九个字母〔I,ι〕,意为微小,一点儿
Latin, from Greek iōta, of Semitic origin; akin to Hebrew yōdh yod
The first known use of iota was in 1542
iotanoun
the ninth letter of the Greek alphabet—Ι or ι
a tiny amount : jot
didn't show an iota of interest
1 It requires only an iota of interest in automotive design to appreciate Seinfeld’s care in pairing guests with machines.
2 "I never had one iota of hoot calls from the audience," Pride said.
3 Our credit standards haven't changed one iota.
我们的信贷标准一点都没有变。
4 Even students without a single iota of mechanical sympathy couldn't damage this thing.
5 And that doesn’t make me one iota less solidly pro-choice.
6 Every iota of the production has to be on point.
7 He's never shown an iota of interest in any kind of work.
他对任何一种工作都没有表现出一点儿兴趣。
8 She exhibits not an iota of shyness and shares a daily Web journal with loyal fans, tirelessly documenting their home renovations and other projects.
9 My parents didn’t care one iota about my children, even though they lavished gifts and attention on my siblings’ children.
10 Basic shape for iota mouth, thin neck, vertical abdomen, ring foot.
基本形制为撇口、细颈、垂腹、圈足。
11 The oblate felt awful hiding even an iota of truth from this honest man.
12 And use cheap jam, the sort without one iota of fruit in it: it saves having to sieve it before spooning it into the pastry cases.
13 I’m so sympathetic to that sick dismay Lynette feels when Toby asks about her music, and her impulse to conceal her failure from him—although she’s not deceiving herself one iota.
14 Whether this group has managed to make an iota of difference in peace and understanding along the Silk Road might be answered with a glance at the headlines on any given day.
15 But she had no intention of relinquishing an iota of the visual power or immediacy staked out by preceding postwar art movements.
16 "We are materially so much better off than we were 50 years ago, but we're not one iota happier," says Chris Peterson, a psychology professor at the University of Michigan.
“我们在物质上比50年前要好上许多倍,但是我们丝毫没有感到更快乐,”密歇根大学的心理学教授克里斯·彼得斯这样评价。
17 There is not an iota of truth in the story.
这个故事一点真实性也没有.
18 Yet it didn't matter one iota.
但这一点都不重要.
19 There's not an iota of truth in his story.
他的故事没有一点真实性.
20 Headliners JLS lack one iota of the Beach Boys' mercurial magic, and are calling time on their generic but successful pop/R&B career.
1 一点
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3 一点儿
mite hair dash seam dick DAB vestige touch taste inch sprinkle dribble nip tincture tinge morsel sprinkling a bit the least a tad a mite
5 微小
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7 小量
8 微量
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9 极少量