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单词 a small matter
释义

a small matter

English

Adverb

a small matter

  1. (obsolete) Somewhat; slightly; a little.
    • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue Concerning the Two Chief Systems of the World, Dialogue 2:
      [] if that it were possible to remove the impediment of the Air, which resisting penetration, doth some small matter retard and impede the motion of the pendulum.
    • 1788, Philosophical Transactions (Royal Society) 79.4:
      The socket and spindle being a small matter taper.
  • a little matter
  • a matter
  • some little matter
  • some small matter

References

  • “a small matter” in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989, →ISBN.
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