2ADJ [ADJ n](数量)极少的 You use minimum to state how small an amount is. (数量)极少的
The basic needs of life are available with minimum effort.
稍加努力就能满足生活的基本需求。
Neil and Chris try to spend the minimum amount of time on the garden.
尼尔与克里斯想尽可能少花时间打理花园。
Minimum is also a noun.
With a minimum of fuss, she produced the grandson he had so desperately wished for.
没经过多少忙乱,她就生了一个他做梦都想要的孙子。
3ADV 最低;至少 If you say that something is a particular amount minimum, you mean that this is the smallest amount it should be or could possibly be, although a larger amount is acceptable or very possible. 最低;至少
You're talking over a thousand pounds minimum for one course.
你说的可是一门课程收费至少1,000英镑。
4PHRASE 至少;最小 You use at a minimum, or at the minimum, when you want to indicate that something is the very least which could or should happen. 至少;最小
This would take three months at a minimum.
这至少要3个月。
At the minimum, they must be guaranteed against any form of further attack.
至少要保证他们不再受到任何形式的攻击。
5PHRASE 尽可能少的数量;最低限度 If you say that someone keeps something to a minimum, or to the minimum, you mean that they keep the amount of it as small as possible. 尽可能少的数量;最低限度
Office machinery is kept to a minimum.
办公室的机器数量维持在最低限度。
She has now cut her teaching hours to the minimum.