modicum

英 [ˈmɒdɪkəm]

美 [ˈmɑːdɪkəm]

n.  少量，一点点(好事或愉快的事)

GRE

BNC.19428 / COCA.19686

牛津词典

noun

• 少量，一点点（好事或愉快的事）
  a fairly small amount, especially of sth good or pleasant
  1. They should win, given a modicum of luck.
     只要有一点点运气，他们就会赢。

柯林斯词典

• QUANT （尤指好事或值得拥有的事物）少量，一点点
  Amodicumof something, especially something that is good or desirable, is a reasonable but not large amount of it.
  1. I'd like to think I've had a modicum of success.
     我倒觉得我取得了一点成绩。
  2. ...a modicum of privacy.
     一点点隐私

双语例句

• It is fair to say that Egypt's dogged support for regional peacemaking has been crucial to sustaining a modicum of civility in the Middle East, despite backsliding by nearly everyone else.
  公平地说，尽管各方的态度几乎都在倒退，但没有撕破脸皮而大打出手与埃及对地区和平的不懈努力是分不开的。
• If he had a modicum of sense, he wouldn't do such a foolish thing.
  如果他稍有头脑，就不会干出这种蠢事。
• Hunger was repeated in every fragment of the small modicum of firewood that the man sawed off;
  饥饿在那人锯开的少量木柴的每一片上反复出现；
• All in all, I'm almost to a point that I have figured out how to work and blog and podcast and still keep a modicum of sanity in my life.
  总之，我几乎到一个点，我已经知道如何工作和博客和播客，仍然保持些许的理智在我的生活。
• I suppose there's a modicum ot comfort m what you say.
  我想你说的话有一丝安慰的意思。
• The Bubble Room has a translucent bottom half that provides bubble dwellers with a modicum of privacy.
  泡泡屋有半透明的底部，能为居住者提供少量隐私。
• Money market funds saw sizeable outflows in the second quarter as a modicum of appetite for risk returned.
  随着风险偏好出现少许回升，货币市场基金在第二季度出现相当大规模的资金流出。
• Pending that outcome, the price of equities worldwide will determine whether the international financial system can maintain a modicum of stability as it eases out of its credit crunch, or falls back into another period of angst and turmoil.
  在这一结果出现之前，正在逐渐摆脱信贷危机的国际金融体系能否维持些许稳定，抑或是否又落入另外一个焦虑和混乱期，一切将取决于全球股市。
• There was a modicum of comfort for the government in the latest set of banking figures.
  政府在最近银行营业额的走向中得到了些许安慰。
• If only a modicum of calm returned to markets, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs should be able to survive.
  只要市场能恢复少许平静，摩根士丹利和高盛就应该能够生存下去。